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(b. Iesi, Italy, 26 December 1194; d. Castelfiorentino, Italy, 13 December 1250)

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Frederick II was the son of Emperor Henry VI and Constance of Sicily and was thus the grandson of both Frederick Barbarossa and Roger II of Sicily.

He was crowned king of Sicily at Palermo in May 1198, following his father’s death in 1197. Upon his mother’s death six months later, Pope Innocent III became Frederick’s guardian and regent of Sicily, a situation not ended until 1208, when Frederick came of age.

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In 1210 Emperor Otto IV invaded Sicily; the young Frederick in turn challenged Otto’s rule in Germany the next year. The victory of his ally Philip II of France at Bouvines (1214) strengthened his position, and at Otto’s death in 1218 Frederick was left unchallenged in Germany and northern Italy; he was crowned Holy Roman emperor in 1220.

Thereupon Frederick turned to the restoration of order in Sicily, a process finally completed with the pro