This winner of the Battle of Carcano exiled his cousin Henry the Lion, who this man had previously made a duke, and tried and hanged the monk Arnold of Brescia.
This winner of the Battle of Carcano exiled his cousin Henry the Lion, who this man had previously made a duke, and tried and hanged the monk Arnold of Brescia. The Italian Ghibellines first fought the Guelphs in support of this holder of the duchy of Swabia, who conquered the Sultanate of Rum and earlier lost at Legnano to the Lombard League in Italy. This successor to Conrad III Hohenstaufen allied with Pope Adrian IV, and failed to remove his armor before drowning in a river in 1191. For 10 points, name this Holy Roman Emperor and initial commander of the Third Crusade, nicknamed for his facial hair.
This winner of the Battle of Carcano exiled his cousin Henry the Lion, who this man had previously made a duke, and tried and hanged the monk Arnold of Brescia.
Frederick Barbarossa [or Frederick I Hohenstaufen; accept Friedrich or Federico for Frederick]