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Frederick II (also Frederick III, Latin: Federicus, Italian: Federico, Sicilian: Fidiricu); 13 December 1272 – 25 June 1337) was the regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1291 until 1295 and subsequently King of Sicily from 1295 until his death.
Frederick III (or IV) (in Italian, Federico; 1 September 1341 – Messina 27 July 1377 [1]), called the Simple, was King of Sicily from 1355 to 1377. He was the second son of Peter II of Sicily and Elisabeth of Carinthia .
For his many-sided activities and dynamic personality Frederick II has been called the greatest of all the German emperors, perhaps even of all medieval rulers. [3] In the Kingdom of Sicily and much of Italy, Frederick built upon the work of his Norman predecessors and forged an early absolutist state bound together by an efficient secular ...
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194-1250), also known as Frederick I of Sicily; Frederick III of Sicily (1272–1337), self-styled the third despite being the second Frederick to rule Sicily (Trinacria) Frederick the Simple (1341–1377), third Frederick to rule Sicily (Trinacria) Frederick IV of Naples (1452–1504), continued Neapolitan ...
In the Kingdom of Sicily and much of Italy, Frederick built upon the work of his Norman predecessors and forged an early absolutist state bound together by an efficient secular bureaucracy. He enjoys a reputation as a brilliant Renaissance man avant la lettre and a visionary statesman, scientist, scholar, architect, poet and composer.
Peter III's son, Frederick III of Sicily (also known as Frederick II of Sicily) reigned from 1298 to 1337. For the whole of the 14th century, Sicily was essentially an independent kingdom, ruled by relatives of the kings of Aragon, but for all intents and purposes they were Sicilian kings.
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[3] [5] Frederick's lands in Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire surrounded the papal states, and thus trapped the Pope between the metaphorical German hammer and Sicilian anvil. [6] Following Frederick's death in 1250, the Sicilian kingdom entered a period of political disarray.