Join us on 21/7 at Burgh House as our 1st QGSS continues in the form of a Salon #Concert & #Social shedding light on #FrederickII ‘ #TheGreat ’ [& ‘The #Queer ’] – feat. Les Bougies Baroques 🇪🇺🎵, Ian Peter 🇵🇸🇺🇦 #FBPE | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ He/Him/His, Sam Kennedy, Rich & Gareth Davies! 🏳️🌈🕯🏳️⚧️ #LGBTQ #BaroqueMusic #Opera
Born #OnThisDay in 1719: French painter #CharlesAmédéePhilippevanLoo (1719-95)
Portrait of #FrederickII , King of Prussia (1712-86), 1763-69
#AmédéeVanLoo #VanLoo #FrenchArt
For today's #palaeography challenge, we have a charter granted by emperor #FrederickII to abbot Benedict of #SantApollinareinClasse . The charter is written in an elegant Gothic script of the early XIII c.
Transcription of the first couple of lines follows in the next tweets.
Sixth Crusade succeeds
No fighting or papal help
Really a 'Crusade'?
#OnThisDay #HaikuHistory #haiku #SixthCrusade #FrederickII #Jerusalem
Breakfast in Altamura, here you can taste the sweets known as “nuns’ tits' or 'sighs'. It is said that these sweets were made by the nuns at the nunnery of Santa Chiara and that they were much appreciated by the emperor FrederickII #WeAreinPuglia @ tom.travel_blogger
#otd 29 September 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades during the Investiture Controversy.
#FrederickII #holyromanemperor #royalhistory
June 15th in year 1246, With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria. #FrederickII ,DukeofAustria #history #datefacts
This bronze Billon Denaro apparently originates from Frederick the Seconds reign of Sicily which was a long 51 years. He was crowned King of Sicily at the incredibly young age of 4 years old (1198).
#History #KingdomOfSicily #FrederickII #Coin #Archeology #HouseofHohenstaufen
I am a big fan of this portrait of #FrederickII by popular Swiss artist #AntonGraff circa 1781. The original is in #CharlottenburgPalace in #Berlin .
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#77 Gladiolus wilsonii, also Gladiolus permeabilis subsp. wilsonii, and Gladiolus frederickii. Named after male botanists Frederick, and Edward Elmer... Data is not neutral, go to namedafterMen.com and join the conversation. #NamedAfterMen #DecolonizeScience #Data #Botanics
Born #OnThisDay in 1557: #SophieofMecklenburgGüstrow (1557-1631), Queen of Denmark & Norway as spouse of #FrederickII
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, 17th Century
#MecklenburgSchwerin #Oldenburg
#onthisday 18 March 1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
#royalhistory #holyromanemperor #FrederickII #kingofjerusalem
#otd 7 September 1228 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Israel, & starts the Sixth Crusade, which results in a peaceful restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
#Sixthcrusade #royalhistory #holyromanemperor #FrederickII #Acre #thecrusades #d7sep #medievalhistory
#otd 5 December 1757 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
#frederickII #RoyalHistory #Battleofleuthen