General Notes

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() 2 GIVN Frederick I "Barbarossa"

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() 2 NSFX HRE

Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (45:26).

"Colonial & Revolutionary Lineages In America" attributes a daughter named
Beatrice, who married William III, Count of Chalon,

however this has been shown to be in error as explained in the following note.

John Yohalem posted to the
soc.genealogy.medieval on 31 Oct 1996 (in part):
Subject: Re: Beatrice a dau. of Fred Barbarossa?
"Frederick had no daughters by BEATRICE OF BURGUNDY -- just five sons. One of
these, Otto, inherited Burgundy and married Margaret, ctss. of Blois. Their
only child, another Beatrice, married Otto, Duke of Meran, who became Otto III
of Burgundy. (Blois descended to the son of Margaret's third marriage.) Their
son Otto III left no children, but five sisters. One of these, Adelaide,
inherited Burgundy and married Hugh of Chalon of the line of Auxonne,
descended from William III of Macon, the uncle and rival claimant of the
original Beatrice, empress to Barbarossa."

Frederick "Red-beard" reigned as Emperor Frederick I: Duke of Swabia in
1147, elected German king 03-05-1152 and crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle on
03-09-1152, he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor at Rome 06-18-1155. He
quarrelled with the papacy and made six expeditions into Italy. Legend
states that he sits in a cavern in the Kyffhauser mountain in Thuringia
awaiting the call of his country. He drowned bathing in or crossing the
River Calycadnus near Seleucia in Cilicia. He was strong and successful,
built up the towns and exercised power through "his earnest and commanding
personality". He "was a man of well-proportioned, medium stature, with
flowing yellow hair and a reddish beard. He delighted in hunting and the
reading of history, and was zealous in his attention to public business,
and his private life was unimpeachable. Carlyle called him `a terror to
evil-doers and a praise to well-doers in this world, probably beyond what
was ever seen since.'" - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1956 Edition, 9:711.
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FREDERICK I (1123?-90). For his efforts to unify the German states and for
his opposition to the Roman popes, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I became
a legendary German hero and a symbol of national unity. (See also Holy Roman
Empire.)
Frederick was born in about 1123 at Waiblingen in Swabia (now in Germany),
the son of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, duke of Swabia, and Judith, daughter
of Henry IX, duke of Bavaria. When his father died in 1147, Frederick became
duke of Swabia. Five years later, on March 4, 1152, he was elected emperor to
succeed his uncle, Conrad III, who had died the previous month.
Frederick's reign, as was true for most medieval rulers, was one of
perpetual conflict on several fronts. Among his goals were: reestablishing
imperial authority in Italy, fending off the growth of Byzantine power in the
Mediterranean and southern Italy, maintaining the supremacy of the empire
over the pope, and consolidating his rule in Germany. Only in the last of
these endeavors was he to be successful to any great extent.
Frederick invaded Italy in 1154 and was crowned emperor at Rome in 1155.
His beard led the Italians to give him the nickname Barbarossa (Red Beard).
The efforts in Italy were, in the long run, unsuccessful. Times had changed
since Charlemagne had founded the empire in 800. The pope was playing a much
stronger role in European affairs, and a number of powerful city-states had
grown up in northern Italy. Several of the city-states formed a group called
the Lombard League to oppose Frederick. The League's army defeated him at the
battle of Legnano in 1176. The cities then became almost completely
independent. His contest with the papacy failed as miserably: in 1177 he was
forced to humble himself before Pope Alexander III.