Barbarossa: Siege Lord (2009) Director: Renzo Martinelli Entertainment grade: E History grade: C Frederick I Barbarossa was King of Germany and later Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1155-1190.

On Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth, by John Freed. Born in 1122, the young Frederick became Duke of Swabia (in southern Germany) in 1147 and shortly thereafter participated in the ...

Frederick the First, called Barbarossa because of his red beard, was not an easy choice for an Age of Kings campaign. He is certain to be the least well known of the five campaign protagonists.

Contribution of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" to an exhibition on the Staufer emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa in the LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster The LWL Museum of Art ...

From its humble origins as disparate barbarian tribes, picking away at the crumbling Roman empire, Germany rose to be one of the most enduring global powers from the middle ages onward. A mainstay of ...

From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa, the Mainz exhibition "The Emperors and the Pillars of their Power" looks into the power plays of the Middle Ages. The popular medieval fantasy series Game of ...

In keeping with his earlier works of fiction, Umberto Eco's Baudolino is a distillation of 10,000 texts. Set in the 12th century, during the reign of Frederick Barbarossa, the novel unceasingly ...