Christmas was bountiful to Frederick II, born December 26, 1194. He was gifted King Genes and Emperor DNA. At age 4, he was crowned King of Sicily, the strategic crossroads of the Mediterranean ...

When we last left Frederick II, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor after years of struggle. But this episode dives into Frederick’s fraught relationship with the papacy, his bold diplomacy with ...

Frederick II, later “the Great,” managed to combine his military prowess with the French ideals he had absorbed through his education, establishing the model for enlightened despotism in Europe.

Few figures of the Middle Ages are as famous as Frederick II of Swabia, emperor and king of Sicily. Around this sovereign who lived between 1194 and 1250 legends and myths arose and dozens of ...