frederick barbarossa

Henry The Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, was one of the most powerful German princes in the history of the HRE. His descendants would go on to hold the german crown as the holy roman empire declined due to the rise of powerful states like the Welf's german holdings, Austria and Bohemia, all...

What if Frederick Barbarossa didn't drown in the Göksu River? How would it have affected the Third Crusade and other things and events?

I half-heartedly apologize if this topic has already been discussed multiple times before, but i'll say it anyway. As we all know, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa's last venture was his campaign in the Third Crusade. After defeating the Seljuks, he drowned in a river, his army...

Another one of those "great men absent" scenarios. I previously made two threads also concerning Freddy (one where he's more successful against the Lombard League and another where he dies at Legnano), by the way. So, assume that Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, dies as a child...

What if Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor of the house of Hohenstaufen, had died and never returned to Pavia after his defeat at the Battle of Legnano, at the hands of the Lombard league? -How will his successor negotiate with the Lombard League, and the pope? -Can Henry the Lion, Welf Duke of...

What if the HRE Frederick I Barbarossa won a decisive and devastating victory over the Lombard League, allowing him to dissolve many of the privileges of the Northern Italian states, creating an intermediary authority, a sort of "Exarchate of Ravenna"-like realm whose leader is directly...