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"If history has taught us anything, it’s that one man fighting for his belief – no matter how mistaken and misguided his faith, is measured to the worth of ten faithless knights"

—Frederik III (ascribed – the Great Crusade against Araby)[1b]

"Me thinks the road to damnation cuts unfairly through lands of fair intention."

—Frederik III (ascribed – the Great Crusade against Araby)[1a]

Frederik III of Stirland was the Emperor of Man and ruler of the Empire during part of the 15th century IC. His greatest accomplishment was to have joined King Louis the Righteous of Bretonnia in the Great Crusade against Araby.[2a]

Nefore the crusade, Frederik III summoned the Elector Counts to a council in Altdorf, and although many of the Electoral Provinces of the Empire were embroiled in a civil war at the time, hostilities were temporarily halted, and each Elector Count offered a small number of their own troops to the cause. Along with the knights of Bretonnia and their feudal armies, the armies of the Elector Counts, and a considerable force raised by the Knightly Orders of the Empire, a great army was mustered at Brionne, which eventually liberated the city of Magritta in Estalia and then carried the war to Araby where Sultan Jaffar, the initiator of the conflict, was ultimately defeated and the war won.[2a]

Trivia[]

Frederik III's story is based on that of the real world Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250), who was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225. He was the son of Emperor Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty and Queen Constance of Sicily of House Hauteville. His political and cultural ambitions were enormous as he ruled a vast area, beginning with Sicily and stretching through Italy all the way north to Germany. As the medieval Crusades to Outremer progressed, he acquired control of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem through negotiation rather than warfare and styled himself its king.

Sources[]

  • 1: Archaon: Everchosen (Novel) by Rob Sanders
  • 2: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition: Tome of Salvation (RPG)
    • 2a: pg. 198
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