FREDERIC. 
tead an- pea into Afia, at any time his holinefs fhould ap- 
oint. ° » however, fo tardy in the execution of his 
vow, that Ho ners threatened to excommunica im: a 
rupture enfued, which threatened very ferious confequences, 
for the emperor not only remonftrated with the pope, but 
a ay a —— manifefto for the jultification of his own 
ndudt, ordered his troops to. — to the frontiers 
of the cclefiatical ate. Honori ow perceived the 
fhnefs of hi n condud, , apologized and a reconciliation 
took place, .in which Fre 
and actually a powerful armament; but 
about three fae after he had put to fea, a flight indifpo- 
fition ferved as an excufe for his return. The pope now 
and fuchcommotions 
Fa that Frederic thought ips to fet out immediat tely 
e Holy Lar id not. carry with him the 
at “rule, and re- 
with whom he was perpetually at irae . is fearcely to 
be relied on. He was unquettionably a patron of learning, 
and caufed.the works of Ariftotle -s ee of the ancients 
to be tranflated from the Gree Arabic into Latin. 
He himfelf compoféd aca a ae profe works, and he 
is faid to have had a fhare i 
m of his 
duct, never to poftpone any bufinefs till laa which 
he could poffibly perform, in the current day. Mforeri. 
‘Univ. ie . 
c III.,emperor, a of Erneft, duke of Autcs. 
fuccee sae a his coufin Albert II. in the year 1 € was 
ow in his twenty-fifth year, and one of his firit atts was to 
coke a di 
ontending 
1451 Frederic vifited 
imperial crewn from the 
pope; 
This ceremony was oa with due pomp, but not 
enable him to recover any of the rights of the empire which 
had been torn from it by various ufurpers, and his vifit lef 
avery unfavourable impreffion of his talents on the minds of 
the Italians. An attempt was made to roufe him to exer- 
tion when Conftantinople was taken by the Turks, but: he 
could bo be alae on to make any efforts in the Chrif- 
tian caufe. He was engaged fome time in domeftic wars 
-for ie poffeffion of the duchy of Auttria, which nm the 
death of Albert he obtained. 
-Burgundy, and thus had the good fortune to the author 
o the greateft acceflion of dominion that his race ever ae- 
From this period he repofed upon Maximilian the 
ire 
chick ofthe of the govérnment, who was foon after 
fent.to Sicily ; but upo confpir acies being detected, king e ae nans, Uponthe death of Matthias he ob- 
he;was made clofe prifloner i in the caftle of Apulia, where ained fro n Ladiflaus the reftitution of Auftria, and 
foon after died. He then invaded - dominions of the duke a eee one d Tyrol from the duke of Bavaria ; at 
.of Auftria, his’ fon’s eee jenna, where he -length he itted the reins of empire, and retired to 
founded the ae ere she eleGtion ef his fon Lentz, where he occupied himfelf § in bea ftudies. He 
Conrad as king o mans. J is he returned to died at theage of page ewes aged in eae aes of an 
Italy with a ne werk ae eda a confider able victory -amputation of his leg. of an einer 
over the Lombard league, and became fo formidable, that 
the: sa aes al Lew againft him, and renewed his ex- 
communication. fatal war fucceeded, which f{pread 
through nly, and.in vale courfe of which almot every town 
was ravaged by the hof he armies. Grego 
i Oo ent IV., nd ie quarrel, 
and ex xcommimicated aie. emperor in 1245. @ pope’s 
party being triumphant, they elected anew king of the Ro- 
mans 3 tempt was made to poifon, the mae but it 
was rendered abortive by a timely difcove ery. e fiege 
ef Parma, undertaken by Frederic, he met ‘vith a tal de - 
feat, _ caufed his party to be almoft entirely difperted 
in the north of Italy. He was now obliged to retire to 
the ied, of Naples, where he died of a feyer. in the — 
fifth year of i ag6 and pase y-fourth-of his 1 weigns Fre- 
deric II. appears to have been a prince of courage, 
genius, 
eaenithed by ambition, Mecgiaes an 
ment to as fair fex. He 
Jaft was daughter of John gue of Englan He was 
addifted to the follies of judicial aftrology, ad though he 
has been charged with maintaining atheitti cal tenets, yet 
ast meee was made through the poe of the popes, 
an inordinate attach- 
y died; but . 
and ae: but his more {plendid qualities were an 
ried fi ix wives, of whom the . 
air and majeftic countenance aoe was ae ain in his apparel, 
moderate in his paffions, and fo remarkably abflemious, that 
his life is faid to have refembled a continual fat. From his 
in quarrels, d with a remarkably 
tenacious memory, but was deftitute of courage, refolution, 
and-generofity. He had a favourite maxim to which he had 
pee cel recourfe, viz. % 
trievable loffes is obbyion. ia 
Freveric I., king of Den 
fucceeded to the throne on the abdicat 
-Chriftian Il, Ata ae diet of the Da 
aty © at 
The te of Gothland, feized by admiral Norby, 
was afterwards the a of contention between the two 
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