Friedrich II von Staufen, King of Sicily and Germany, HRE^[1]

1194 - 1250  (55 years)

• Name	Friedrich II von Staufen
  		House of Hohenstaufen
  Suffix	King of Sicily and Germany, HRE
  Born	26 Dec 1194	Iesi, Marche, Italy   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Title	1208  [2]
  	King of Sicily
  Title	1215	Aachen, Rhineland, Germany   [2]
  	King of Germany (Coronation)
  Title	22 Nov 1220	Rome, Italy   [3]
  	Holy Roman Emperor
  Military	28 Jun 1228	Brindisi, Apulia, Italy
  	Sixth Crusade (Departure for the Holy Land)
  		Crusaders First (1095–1099); Second (1147–1149); Third or the Kings' Crusade (1189–1192); Forth (1202–1204); Fifth (1213–1221); Sixth (1228); Barons' (1239); Seventh (1248-1254); Eighth (1270); and Ninth (1271-1272).
  Political	18 Feb 1229	Jerusalem   [6]
  	Truce of Jerusalem
  	"On 18 February 1229, Frederick agreed terms with the Ayyubid sultan. In return for a ten year truce and Frederick's military protection against all enemies, even Christians, al-Kamil surrendered Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth, together with a corridor of land linking the Holy City with the coast. Muslims were to retain access to the Haram as-Sharif, with their own qadi to supervise this sacred area, but otherwise they were to abandon the city. For the first time in forty years the Holy Sepulchre would again be in Christian hands- an excommunicate emperor had achieved what no crusader since 1187 could, and all without spilling a single drop of blood." [4] Latin Christians maintained control of Jerusalem until it was overrun by the Khwarizmian Turks on 11 Jul 1244. [5]
  Departure	1 May 1229	Acre, Israel   [7]
  Died	13 Dec 1250	Castel Fiorentino, Lucera, Foggia, Apulia, Italy   [8, 9]
  	Cause: Dysentery
  Buried	Palermo Cathedral, Palermo, Sicily
  		Tomb of Friedrich II Cathedral of Palermo
  Person ID	I12415	Dickinson
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Heinrich VI von Staufen, Holy Roman Emperor,   b. Nov 1165, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands ,   d. 28 Sep 1197, Messina, Sicilia, Italy  (Age ~ 31 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Constance of Sicily,   b. 2 Nov 1154,   d. 28 Nov 1198, Palermo, Sicily  (Age 44 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	27 Jan 1186	San Ambrosio, Milan, Italy
  Family ID	F6073	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Constanza de Aragón, Queen consort of Hungary, Sicily,   b. ca. 1179,   d. 23 Jun 1222, Catania, Sicily  (Age ~ 43 years)
  Married	Aug 1209	Sicily
  Children	1. Heinrich VII von Staufen, King of Germany, HRE,   b. 1211,   d. Feb 1242  (Age 31 years)
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F6072	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Isabelle II of of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem,   b. 1212, Andria, Italy ,   d. 25 Apr 1228, Andria, Italy  (Age 16 years)
  Married	9 Nov 1225	Brindisi, Italy   [10, 11]
  Children	1. Konrad IV von Staufen, King of Germany ,   b. 25 Apr 1228, Andria, Italy ,   d. 21 May 1254, Lavello, Italy  (Age 26 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2017
  Family ID	F3526	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Isabella of England, Holy Roman Empress,   b. 1214,   d. 1 Dec 1241, Naples, Italy  (Age 27 years)
  Married	Jul 1235	Cathedral of St. Peter, Worms, Germany
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2014
  Family ID	F3527	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 26 Dec 1194 - Iesi, Marche, Italy Married - Aug 1209 - Sicily Title - King of Germany (Coronation) - 1215 - Aachen, Rhineland, Germany Title - Holy Roman Emperor - 22 Nov 1220 - Rome, Italy Married - 9 Nov 1225 - Brindisi, Italy Military - Sixth Crusade (Departure for the Holy Land) - 28 Jun 1228 - Brindisi, Apulia, Italy Political - Truce of Jerusalem - 18 Feb 1229 - Jerusalem Departure - 1 May 1229 - Acre, Israel Married - Jul 1235 - Cathedral of St. Peter, Worms, Germany Died - Cause: Dysentery - 13 Dec 1250 - Castel Fiorentino, Lucera, Foggia, Apulia, Italy Buried - - Palermo Cathedral, Palermo, Sicily  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), "KONSTANTIN ROGER FRIEDRICH von Staufen, son of Emperor HEINRICH VI & his wife Constance of Sicily (Iesi, Ancona 26 Dec 1194-Castel Fiorentino near Lucera, Foggia, 13 Dec 1250, bur 25 Feb 1251 Palermo Cathedral)" at http://bit.ly/2hInCIu. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 550. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 559. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 569. [S359] The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, Dan Jones, (New York: Viking, 2017), 243. [S359] The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, Dan Jones, (New York: Viking, 2017), 231-33. [S359] The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, Dan Jones, (New York: Viking, 2017), 236. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 572. [S359] The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, Dan Jones, (New York: Viking, 2017), 257. ?Frederick II died of dysentery on December 13, 1250, and was buried in a bright red sarcophagus in Palermo Cathedral. He had spent most of his reign in a long and dizzyingly complex war with the pope and his enemies in Italy, and although he had succeeded where everyone since the First Crusade failed- he had taken back the city of Jerusalem for the Latin Christians- he died having offended the Church so consistently that he had been excommunicated four times and had led many churchmen to the conclusion that he was the devil incarnate.? [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 565. [S359] The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, Dan Jones, (New York: Viking, 2017), 226. "Collecting titles was one of Frederick's specialties, and the crown of Jerusalem had come to him by way of a wedding. In 1225 he had married John of Brienne's thirteen-year-old daughter, Isabella, the rightful queen of Jerusalem. As part of the deal Frederick had taken over her father's rights to act as titular ruler of the Latin kingdom. Three years later Isabella bore him a son, whom they named Conrad. Sadly for her, but somewhat fortuitously for Frederick, the girl promptly died of childbed fever, leaving Frederick holding a baby who was next in line to the throne."