Frederick I Barbarossa - 1152-1190 • History of the Germans Podcast (2024)

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Who was the German king who drowned? ›

History. Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, participated in the Third Crusade (1189–1192). After having left much of Anatolia behind, he drowned on 10 June 1190 in the Saleph River, what is Göksu River today.

Taking advantage of the hostility of other German princes to Henry, Frederick had Henry tried in absentia by a court of bishops and princes in 1180, declared that imperial law overruled traditional German law, and had Henry stripped of his lands and declared an outlaw.

According to some web sources, the size of the army of Frederick Barbarossa when he got drowned is uncertain, but it is estimated to be between 12,000 and 20,000 soldiers. He had started his crusade with about 150,000 men, but many of them died or deserted along the way.

In 1190, during the Third Crusade, he drowned while bathing in a river in Lesser Armenia. The heat made it impossible to transport his body over long distances, so he was boiled and buried in nearby Antioch.

This year is the 125th anniversary of the death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. The 'fairytale king' or 'Märchenkönig" died at the age of 40 in mysterious circ*mstances in 1886, when his lifeless body was found floating in Lake Starnberg, south of Munich, together with the corpse of his physician.

Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, is the current head of the formerly royal Prussian line, while Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern, is the head of the formerly princely Swabian line.

Frederick Barbarossa (1152-90) was the first German emperor—later to be called the Holy Roman Emperor—who gave considerable attention to the three terms of the imperial title. His own registers and contemporary chronicles reveal frequent references to the three components of both his title and the Holy Roman Empire.

Barbarossa, a name meaning "red beard" in Italian, primarily refers to: Frederick Barbarossa (1122–1190), Holy Roman Emperor.

After a five week delay while operations in Greece and Yugoslavia were completed, Operation 'Barbarossa' - named after the all-conquering Medieval Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I - was launched on 22 June 1941. Over three and a half million German and other Axis troops attacked along a 1,800-mile front.

Was Barbarossa bigger than D Day? ›

As far as numbers Barbarossa was larger by far than D-Day - 3 million Germans versus 153000 Allies. The front-line of Barbarossa also extended over a 1 800 mile . . . whilst D-Day concentrated on 5 beach heads.

After Barbarossa led additional military campaigns, including one in which he assisted the French against the Habsburgs in 1543 and 1544, he died in Constantinople in 1546.

Hayreddin Barbarossa (Arabic: خير الدين بربروس, romanized: Khayr al-Din Barbarus, original name: Khiḍr; Turkish: Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa), also known as Hayreddin Pasha, Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, and simply Hızır Reis (c. 1466/1483 – 4 July 1546), was an Ottoman corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy.

Frederick I, German Friedrich known as Frederick Barbarossa (“Redbeard”), (born c. 1123—died June 10, 1190, Kingdom of Armenia), Duke of Swabia (1147–90), German king (1152–90), and Holy Roman Emperor (1155–90).

Frederick Barbarossa was Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190, and married Beatrice of Burgundy in 1156.

Then, near the southern Turkish town of Silifke, Barbarossa made a bad decision. Asbridge writes: “The emperor impatiently decided to ford the River Saleph ahead of his troops. His horse lost its footing in mid-stream, throwing Frederick into the river. ... Unable to swim, the German emperor drowned.”

Descendants of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Some of his descendants went on to have successful careers and marriages, while others faced financial difficulties and political scandals. Today, the head of the House of Hohenzollern is Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, who is a great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II.

By late 1918 Wilhelm's presence proved an obstacle to peace negotiations and, forced to abdicate on 9 November 1918, he was bundled off to neutral Holland, where he remained until his death in 1941.

In 1918, following defeat in World War I, the country ditched its royal family to become a republic and a democracy. The then-Kaiser and his family gave up their power but got to keep a substantial part of the fortune they'd amassed over the centuries: castles, land, artworks, crowns, swords and jewels.