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Historical person
1194–1250
Frederick II was king of Sicily, king of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, ruling a far-reaching Mediterranean monarchy in the thirteenth century. A patron of law, learning and administration, he fought repeated conflicts with the papacy and recovered Jerusalem by negotiation during the Sixth Crusade.
In Cecelia Holland’s The King’s Road, Away from ceremony and supervision, Federigo encounters sailors, soldiers, villagers and a prophet who recognises the future emperor beneath the hunted child.
Series
The Kinghood books are two independent medieval novels linked by their examination of contested rule rather than by recurring characters. Hammer for Princes follows an experienced Anglo-Norman earl through the final phase of the Anarchy, when King Stephen and the future Henry II struggle over England. The King’s…
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