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Frederick I

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Frederick I Known as Frederick Bar·ba·ros·sa  (bärb-rs, -rôs) 1123?-1190.
Holy Roman emperor (1152-1190) and king of Germany and Italy. After quelling the rebellious German nobility, he failed to subdue papal authority in Italy and conceded supremacy to Pope Alexander III (1177). He drowned while leading the Third Crusade.
Frederick I [ˈfrɛdrɪk]
n
1. (Biographies) See Frederick Barbarossa
2. (Biographies / Frederick I (1657-1713) M, Prussian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1657-1713, first king of Prussia (1701-13); son of Frederick William
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Noun1.Frederick IFrederick I - son of Frederick William who in 1701 became the first king of Prussia (1657-1713)
Hohenzollern - a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia
2.Frederick IFrederick I - Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190)
Barbarossa, Frederick Barbarossa


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Martin Luther translated twenty of these fables, and was urged by Melancthon to complete the whole; while Gottfried Arnold, the celebrated Lutheran theologian, and librarian to Frederick I, king of Prussia, mentions that the great Reformer valued the Fables of Aesop next after the Holy Scriptures.
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