Tag: Constance of Siciliy

• 072 – Frederick II takes the reigns and trouble starts

  1220 – 1231 After his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in 1220, Frederick II has to first consolidate the south, facing the Muslim rebellion and then deal with the insistence of the popes for a new Crusade, an issue he will find a completely unprecedented solution for.

  A History of Italy

  December 29, 2019

  Bthlehem, Constance of Siciliy, Constitutions of Melfi, Crusade, Frederick II, Gregory IX, Henry VI, Honorius III, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Lucera, Melfi, Muslim, Nazareth, Palermo, Papal States, Podcast

• 071 – Wonderboy rising: Freddie II

  1197 – 2020 We see the early life of Frederick I of Sicily, son of Constance of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI up to the point when he becomes Emperor Frederick II himself with great regret from the popes who had hoped to keep the crown of the empire and that of the…

  A History of Italy

  December 23, 2019

  Benevento, Bouvines, Constance of Siciliy, Frederick Barbarossa, Frederick II, Henry VI, Honorius III, King John, Muslim, Otto IV, Palermo, Philipp II, Podcast, Pope Innocent III, Rome, Sicily

• 070 – No more Normans and Horrid Henry

  1186 – 1197 We sadly saw goodbye to the Norman kings in Sicily and usher in a new era in which the Hohenstaufen, under emperor Henry VI, son of Barbarossa, extend their dominion from the north sea to the centre of the Meditteranean.

  A History of Italy

  December 12, 2019

  Avellino, Clement III, Constance of Siciliy, Frederick Barbarossa, Henry VI, Joan of England, Lionheart, Norman, Palermo, Podcast, Richard I, Salerno, Tancredi of Siciliy, Urban III, Walter of the mill, William I of Siciliy, William II of Siciliy