Much has been said about his supposed skepticism. Truth is he was a good christian, and tolerant. The accusations of skepticism came from papal and lombard propaganda. He was unfairly demonized.
He fought the pope but he was a believing catholic, like his predecessors. He went on a Crusade. He helped the teutonic order. And he died a a believer, dressing like a cistercian monk and receiving absolution from the bishop of Palermo.
i wonder how history would have been if frederick had the power to reign undisputed on the whole empire and get rid of its political instability and fragmentation, maybe european, and possibly world's history would have been completely different.
This was a very enjoyable presentation! Frederick II was one of my favourite characters in Medieval History. He was a genius and very inspiring. Is studied war and society in the age of the crusades this year in university. thank you for sharing this! Music was great too.... Is it possible to visit his resting place at palermo?
@MrSkeff Thanks a lot for your compliments. Yes, it is possible to visit his resting place at Palermo. His sarcophagus lies together with the graves of his father Henry VI. and grandfather Roger II. in a side chapel of Palermo Cathedral. This side chapel is open for visitors most days of the week.
Nicely organized! but I'm kinda curious about sources of relationship btw heavenly Jerusalem and Castle del Monte. I saw the same sort of references elsewhere but I cannot find scholarly works on it. Are they written mainly by Italian scholars? then out of my reach...
@TAta072819 Thanks a lot for your compliment. You find s.th. about Castel Del Monte's relationship to Heavenly Jerusalem in works about Christian-Medieval Hermeneutics. My source was an architecture book by Carl Arnold Willemsen with the title "Castel Del Monte - Die Krone Apuliens".
he was a "weird" person in his time but he had a very strong personality,brave and a very intelegent king he exceled 7 languages,he was not a fuckin' fundamentalist ass hole (even he was a king of a christian kingdom and he crossed his way with the papacy) i admired him...
Are you done with your studies? What was your thesis? Mine was German-Soviet relations between the Peace of Brest-Litowsk and the appointment of von Ribbentrop as foreign minister.
@DrGull1888 I am actually in my last year. I have not picked my thesis yet but I am in the process of doing it. I am leaning towards Frederick and his recruitment of Saracens for his private army.
Peace be upon you Frederic IIof Hohenstaufen. You were a king who respected his ennemies and their religion. Salam from all the muslim community around the world. We will never forgive you. All germans can be proud of you.
Bravo ! Very nice video ! Wonderful music ! You did Federico a real justice. I have studied his life for fifteen years. I will soon have a children's biography published titled The Falconer. Christopher Sblendorio
Your video is magnificent, although I lack the Italian tongue. Beautiful pictures combined with a proper soundtrack. And I love your intro. Superman combined with Beethoven. Sweet.
Greetings from Nuremberg, the city to which Frederick II. granted the status of a "Free Imperial City"
Yes, the power of the Pope became weaker after Luther. I always wonder why us, humans, make the sames mistakes again and again. Luther didn't present a new religion, just reform and put it in the spiritual/biblical way (and so he didn´t burn at a stake). Christ tried to do the same and a new religion was born. How complex is refit something that lost it's north for many years! Frederick II, trough diplomacy, could had change the face of middle east and the current present....
Yes, you are right. Luther just wanted to reform the existing religion. But I think he wasn't sent to the pyre because he was protected by several German princes who wanted more independence from the Emperor.
It's hard to refit religion because it's connected to secular power and as long as someone like the Pope or a Mufti has to loose power nothing changes.
I always wonder what happened if Frederick lived longer. Shortly after his death came the Mongols. How would he have coped with them?
A good question. In military, perhaps the same: Archer-cavlary had far better strike'nrun power, so the longsword infantry and heavy cavalry had no much chances (Teutonic Knights, i.e.). But in the diplomacy way the history would had been not the same. I think Frederick II was one of the most finnest politician ever seen, both in diplomacy and in administration. An united Europe could had defeated the Mongols, not the Luck.
The same of Darwin or Galileo: too advanced to their epochs.
Yes, too advanced for his epoch. He lived 200-300 years too early. Imagine he had prevailed, the boost of science and art. And what might following generations have done with this foundation?
Yes, he was a gifted diplomat but he failed in dealing with the 3 following Popes. But his approach to the Islamic World was brilliant.
It's interesting by the way that at the same time when the Mongols invated Hungary and Poland, they also attacked the Caliphate of Bagdad. Unbelieveable, their strentgh!
@DrGull1888 not so different from who succeded him i think, what the holy roman empire lacked was an actual
unity, the emperor was'nt so powerful, local feudal lords had too much independence, if the holy roman emperor had the same kind of authority of ancient roman emperors like augustus, and its empire was united like the ancient empire, things would have been completely different! maybe if frederick had hired several professional bands of mercenaries and organized them into an imperial army
The problem of King's and Emperor's legitimacy inherited trough Pipinu's the short coronation brought both, hunger to become Pope, and the unacceptable interference of spiritual power into the temporal power. At the end, the legacy of unity of Frederick I was spoiled by the Vicar of Christ, not by a lack of skills from Frederick II ... it was stupid.
I read once that Frederick II hammered in the sarcophagus of the relics of Charlemagne when doing the cursade vote.
It is true. That power struggle pulls through the complete Middle Ages. It ends with the Reformation for the Pope needed strong Catholic allies against Luther. At the end of the 16th century the Papacy's power was by far weaker than the power of secular princes.
I read that Frederick transferred the remains of Charlemagne into the golden shrine in Aachen after he was crowned German King the third time.
Much has been said about his supposed skepticism. Truth is he was a good christian, and tolerant. The accusations of skepticism came from papal and lombard propaganda. He was unfairly demonized.
He fought the pope but he was a believing catholic, like his predecessors. He went on a Crusade. He helped the teutonic order. And he died a a believer, dressing like a cistercian monk and receiving absolution from the bishop of Palermo.
Good video.
1999521 2 months ago
i wonder how history would have been if frederick had the power to reign undisputed on the whole empire and get rid of its political instability and fragmentation, maybe european, and possibly world's history would have been completely different.
GetitUnderCool 5 months ago
wasn't he borned in the 18th century??
edgar96ism 7 months ago
@edgar96ism I think you confuse him with Frederick the Great.
DrGull1888 7 months ago
This was a very enjoyable presentation! Frederick II was one of my favourite characters in Medieval History. He was a genius and very inspiring. Is studied war and society in the age of the crusades this year in university. thank you for sharing this! Music was great too.... Is it possible to visit his resting place at palermo?
MrSkeff 9 months ago
@MrSkeff Thanks a lot for your compliments. Yes, it is possible to visit his resting place at Palermo. His sarcophagus lies together with the graves of his father Henry VI. and grandfather Roger II. in a side chapel of Palermo Cathedral. This side chapel is open for visitors most days of the week.
DrGull1888 9 months ago
@SuperBikobiko Thanks a lot.
DrGull1888 10 months ago
Nicely organized! but I'm kinda curious about sources of relationship btw heavenly Jerusalem and Castle del Monte. I saw the same sort of references elsewhere but I cannot find scholarly works on it. Are they written mainly by Italian scholars? then out of my reach...
TAta072819 1 year ago
@TAta072819 Thanks a lot for your compliment. You find s.th. about Castel Del Monte's relationship to Heavenly Jerusalem in works about Christian-Medieval Hermeneutics. My source was an architecture book by Carl Arnold Willemsen with the title "Castel Del Monte - Die Krone Apuliens".
DrGull1888 1 year ago
he was a "weird" person in his time but he had a very strong personality,brave and a very intelegent king he exceled 7 languages,he was not a fuckin' fundamentalist ass hole (even he was a king of a christian kingdom and he crossed his way with the papacy) i admired him...
IndoAtheist 1 year ago
I love Frederick II. He inspired me to study history.
legionarioXIX 2 years ago
Are you done with your studies? What was your thesis? Mine was German-Soviet relations between the Peace of Brest-Litowsk and the appointment of von Ribbentrop as foreign minister.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
@DrGull1888 I am actually in my last year. I have not picked my thesis yet but I am in the process of doing it. I am leaning towards Frederick and his recruitment of Saracens for his private army.
legionarioXIX 2 years ago
Peace be upon you Frederic IIof Hohenstaufen. You were a king who respected his ennemies and their religion. Salam from all the muslim community around the world. We will never forgive you. All germans can be proud of you.
Salamu Alaykum.
Khamzali 2 years ago
Do you perhaps mean "We will never forGET you?"
Lindsayjane42 2 years ago
Bravo ! Very nice video ! Wonderful music ! You did Federico a real justice. I have studied his life for fifteen years. I will soon have a children's biography published titled The Falconer. Christopher Sblendorio
csblendo 2 years ago
Thanks a lot and good luck with your book.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Hello,
I tried to send my video response,
but I can not.
Congratulations for your video, very nice!
Ciccioxxx76 2 years ago
It worked this time and thanks a lot for the compliment.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Dear Andreas,
I hope you like my video, I love the character of Frederick II of Swabia.
Greetings from Palermo
Ciccioxxx76 2 years ago
Your video is magnificent, although I lack the Italian tongue. Beautiful pictures combined with a proper soundtrack. And I love your intro. Superman combined with Beethoven. Sweet.
Greetings from Nuremberg, the city to which Frederick II. granted the status of a "Free Imperial City"
DrGull1888 2 years ago
He is my ancestor, thanks for this vid which helps me learn more about my ancestors and feel proud of them :)
amelie8celine 2 years ago
Then, this video has fulfilled it's purpose. Thanks for the compliment.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Seems to me that he was, in a way, a Renaissance man, before the Renaissance took place. Interesting.
Lagolop 2 years ago
You're absoluely right. That is what many historians write about Frederick.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
DrGrull1888
Yes, the power of the Pope became weaker after Luther. I always wonder why us, humans, make the sames mistakes again and again. Luther didn't present a new religion, just reform and put it in the spiritual/biblical way (and so he didn´t burn at a stake). Christ tried to do the same and a new religion was born. How complex is refit something that lost it's north for many years! Frederick II, trough diplomacy, could had change the face of middle east and the current present....
matamuelas 2 years ago
Yes, you are right. Luther just wanted to reform the existing religion. But I think he wasn't sent to the pyre because he was protected by several German princes who wanted more independence from the Emperor.
It's hard to refit religion because it's connected to secular power and as long as someone like the Pope or a Mufti has to loose power nothing changes.
I always wonder what happened if Frederick lived longer. Shortly after his death came the Mongols. How would he have coped with them?
DrGull1888 2 years ago
A good question. In military, perhaps the same: Archer-cavlary had far better strike'nrun power, so the longsword infantry and heavy cavalry had no much chances (Teutonic Knights, i.e.). But in the diplomacy way the history would had been not the same. I think Frederick II was one of the most finnest politician ever seen, both in diplomacy and in administration. An united Europe could had defeated the Mongols, not the Luck.
The same of Darwin or Galileo: too advanced to their epochs.
matamuelas 2 years ago
Yes, too advanced for his epoch. He lived 200-300 years too early. Imagine he had prevailed, the boost of science and art. And what might following generations have done with this foundation?
Yes, he was a gifted diplomat but he failed in dealing with the 3 following Popes. But his approach to the Islamic World was brilliant.
It's interesting by the way that at the same time when the Mongols invated Hungary and Poland, they also attacked the Caliphate of Bagdad. Unbelieveable, their strentgh!
DrGull1888 2 years ago
@DrGull1888 not so different from who succeded him i think, what the holy roman empire lacked was an actual
unity, the emperor was'nt so powerful, local feudal lords had too much independence, if the holy roman emperor had the same kind of authority of ancient roman emperors like augustus, and its empire was united like the ancient empire, things would have been completely different! maybe if frederick had hired several professional bands of mercenaries and organized them into an imperial army
GetitUnderCool 5 months ago
Hi DrGrull1888
The problem of King's and Emperor's legitimacy inherited trough Pipinu's the short coronation brought both, hunger to become Pope, and the unacceptable interference of spiritual power into the temporal power. At the end, the legacy of unity of Frederick I was spoiled by the Vicar of Christ, not by a lack of skills from Frederick II ... it was stupid.
I read once that Frederick II hammered in the sarcophagus of the relics of Charlemagne when doing the cursade vote.
Good video.
matamuelas 2 years ago
Dear matamuelas,
Thanks a lot for the compliment.
It is true. That power struggle pulls through the complete Middle Ages. It ends with the Reformation for the Pope needed strong Catholic allies against Luther. At the end of the 16th century the Papacy's power was by far weaker than the power of secular princes.
I read that Frederick transferred the remains of Charlemagne into the golden shrine in Aachen after he was crowned German King the third time.
DrGull1888 2 years ago