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Historical person
1122–1190
Frederick Barbarossa was Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death during the Third Crusade in 1190. His reign was marked by conflict with Italian cities, negotiation with the papacy and the effort to assert imperial authority across a fragmented empire.
In Umberto Eco’s Baudolino, a gifted liar from northern Italy, Baudolino was adopted by Frederick Barbarossa and educated within the political and intellectual world of the emperor’s court. Robert Broomall’s Death’s Head is set in 1190, Roger, an idealistic young monk accused of murder, flees his abbey and joins the crusading movement to the eastern Mediterranean.
Series
The Roger of Huntley series follows a fugitive monk and crusader through the violence of the Third Crusade and the later crisis of King John’s reign. The early books place Roger among soldiers, pilgrims and rulers in the eastern Mediterranean, while the later novels return him to England…
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