Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Unless he won Jerusalem itself, it's not the same outcome

fun fact: After the French got hold of Apulia, they exterminated the Muslim population.

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One of these was the right thing to do, and a German didn't do it

i've heard that he was so kind with muslims that the pope excommunicated him 4x and called him the anti christ

but i didn't know about this

also he became a legend after he died. the general populace kept saying that he was in a far away mountain waiting till the time was right to set things straight

he really was a great man. he was a christian who saw the value in peace and made good deals with those who shared his God.

I wish there were more emperors like him, he was a literate, rational peacekeeper

>i've heard that he was so kind with muslims that the pope excommunicated him 4x and called him the anti christ
It was more about the fact that he was a dick.
>he was a christian
Wrong

cheeky bastard

He was a christian, it's just that he was open to the other major abrahamic religion of Islam

>it was more about the fact that he was a dick
no...
the pope wanted a united europe so he gave them a common enemy, this increased his influence and riches, since middle eastern cities were very rich. also by controlling Jerusalem and other coastal cities you not only control pilgrimage but also trade. double the moneys. because frederick had a better deal than the pope, he was fearing he would become irrelevant, hence the excommuncating

He was probably evil.
>he gave them a common enemy
Papa didn't do that, Mohammad did. When they took Egypt and Syria and every other Christian country they could, they made themselves the enemy of Christendom.

there had been peace established by the time Pope Urbanus called everyone into crusading. also, the Byzantines were orthodox, an enemy of catholicism. do i have to mention the Fourth Crusade?

>there had been peace established by the time Pope Urbanus called everyone into crusading
There will never be a truly lasting peace when someone still has half your shit. Plus, the Crusades were initially called, because Turks apparently didn't hear about that established peace.
Also, the Fourth Crusade is a lot more complex than memers would have you believe. There was trickery afoot.

well since muslims were sworn enemies of christendom, the ottoman empire taking chunks of AH was completely justified? also just admit that the Fourth Crusade was a huge christian blunder and that it was the event that set the stage for the Ottomans to deal the finishing blow

What do you mean, AH? Austria Hungary? No, the Ottomans taking anything is disgusting. The fact that Anatolia is currently recognized as Turkey is disgusting
>also just admit that the Fourth Crusade was a huge christian blunder
It was more like a giant series of blunders that set the stage for the Ottomans. Nobody's denying that.

He made us a kingdom, so he was cool i guess

but he did, literally crowned "king of jerusalem" there

Well, yeah, fuck him still. King of Jerusalem should be some kind of nonfaggot, like French or possibly Breton. Look at where peace got him. Where's Jerusalem now?

>An experiment allegedly carried out by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the 13th century saw young infants raised without human interaction in an attempt to determine if there was a natural language that they might demonstrate once their voices matured. It is claimed he was seeking to discover what language would have been imparted unto Adam and Eve by God.

>The experiments were recorded by the monk Salimbene di Adam in his Chronicles, who wrote that Frederick encouraged "foster-mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the children, but in no ways to prattle or speak with them; for he would have learnt whether they would speak the Hebrew language (which he took to have been the first), or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perchance the tongue of their parents of whom they had been born. But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.

what the fuck was his problem?

Probably caught Satanism from the Mohammadians. He probably prayed the rosary backwards to Termagant

mutliple kings did this shit. i heard one did it but because the kids could hear sheep, they started to bleat

first and best kaiser

imagine being the pope, spent years trying to get jerusalem with thousands of soldier and still failed to kick the ayyubids out for the long ass time and then this fucking guy you just excomunicated just came there by boats and had a nice talk with the ayyubids sultan and the sultan decides to hand over the whole jerusalem because he thinks youre a cool guy and he likes birds too. achieving peace, safe pilgrimage routes and being crowned king of jerusalem by theorder of the ayyubids sultan himself all without a single blood being spilled.

imagine the absolute butthurt state of the papacy just then

Pietro della Vigna did NOTHING wrong.

6th crusade is the best crusade desu

right? lol
>a-antichrist!!!

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