HIST-102 Lecture 5: king of Jerusalem
19 Nov 2020
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Frederick crowned himself king of jerusalem in march of 1229; the church responded by excommunicating him again. After several months of wrangling, frederick and rome patched up their relations, He was also willing, even eager, to relinquish most of his claims to germany; more than any other emperor, frederick regarded germany as a remote and insignificant place compared with the mediterranean. Frederick in effect was calling a halt to all this civilization in return for a guarantee of the princes" leaving him alone in the south. The empire itself remained in theory, but with one or two exceptions no figure ever again held meaningful authority over the princes for the rest of the middle ages. Frederick found it much harder to assert his authority over northern italy than to relinquish it over germany. The lombard league that had defeated his grandfather frederick barbarossa in 1176 was re- created with papal help in the 1230s, the guelf-ghibelline contest began anew.
