Another problem is that there are too many names repeated, what Charlie, Henry, George, William, Louis, it seems that the nobles are called by such a few names, and many lazy people simply don't even have names, just Henry and Charlie, and it is also written in the book. As a Chinese, I really can't figure out these repetitive, but not one-person titles. So if there is a mistake in the relationship between the characters, it's best not to scold too harshly, point out the mistake to me and correct it. I checked the genealogical comparison tables of these European royal families for three days, and I was still confused.

If Friedrich II had been the king of Sicily since he was a child, and his queen mother was in charge, in fact, a small life would be good, and if you don't want that Germanic king, you won't want it, and you will talk about it when you grow up. But he was not very happy as the king of Sicily, the emperor's father had just died for more than a year, his king's seat had not yet been hot, the queen mother's mother was also sick and died, and the four-year-old little king became a loner.

This must be in China, and it is guaranteed that it is the result of the usurpation of power by ministers, and if it is not done well, the country will be divided, and at least a powerful minister must be born. But the Kingdom of Sicily is fine, why? Because there's a pope staring at it. According to the rules, unless Friedrich II died young, the Church had to ensure that his kingship was not encroached upon. What's even more interesting is that Friedrich II's mother of the Queen Mother deceived Pope Innocent III once before she died, so that the Pope made a promise to protect her son as he grew up.

Can the Pope protect Friedrich II Jr.? He had to protect it, or else the Pope would not be able to do anything if his credibility was damaged. But he was not willing to protect the little boy king, so he compromised. Leave little Friedrich II in the palace of Sicily and leave it alone. Just protect his life. Regardless of other aspects, including food and daily life, some priests would be sent to take care of the education of the little king.

Now little Friedrich II's childhood was miserable, the palace was deserted, he was a bare-bones king, not to mention governing the country, and he often practiced and could not eat a full meal. For such an obviously hopeless little king, who wants to serve with his heart. Everyone is waiting to see when he dies.

Things in the world are sometimes so weird, the more carefully you take care of it, the faster you may die, the more you can be stocked, hey, he is still alive all day long, and he can't get sick when he eats it. Friedrich II Jr. was one of those people, who simply did not stay in the palace at all, and spent his days in the streets of Palermo dressed in satin clothes, and in the company of peddlers and pawns. Relying on the help of royal relatives like the Karl family, he finally lived to be fifteen years old.

During the year. Pope Innocent III finally remembered that there was still a king to take care of in Sicily, so he married a daughter-in-law to Friedrich II, who was also a famous family, and the princess of Aragon Constance (what to say, his mother is called Constance, and his daughter-in-law is also called Constance, and the level of European names is really inferior!). ）。 Having a daughter-in-law at the age of fifteen would have been an enviable thing, but this princess of Aragon was a widow, more than ten years older than Friedrich II, and this pope was bad enough.

"I don't think so, your cousin is likely to like this princess of Aragon, for a child who has lost his parents since he was three or four years old, having an older woman to take care of him can make him feel the premature loss of maternal love." Hong Tao was very sure that the marriage arranged by the Pope for Friedrich II was a fool. The Pope did not like the child, but could not break his promise, so he found a widow princess who was not very popular, far away in the chaotic land of Spain, and could not marry well, and gave it to Friedrich II, and perhaps the Pope also took advantage of the king of Aragon in this marriage. But the Pope certainly didn't expect that this woman was exactly the woman that the young Friedrich II needed the most, and if the little emperor was given a little girl who was also fifteen years old, how could the two of them live? Let's go out on the street and play with the peddlers' pawns? Will you not be an emperor in the future?

"If His Majesty the Emperor hears your comments, he will definitely regard you as a bosom friend, and he still hangs the portrait of Princess Constance in his bedroom. Her burial place is in the chapel of the palace, and when she was buried, the emperor also placed his crown on the sarcophagus of the princess, and made people engrave the words: Here is the queen of Sicily, and Friedrich belongs to you forever! In the second year of their marriage, they had a boy, his heir to the throne and my nephew Henry VII. Of the four children of His Majesty the Emperor, he liked this eldest the most. Once again, Karl was amazed by Hong Tao's unusual imagination, and things were just as Hong Tao expected, and the little life of Friedrich II and the princess of Aragon was very good. The former Hungarian prince not only gave birth to the young king's eldest son, but also taught him a lot of court etiquette, so that he gradually became a king from a child wandering the streets. It was not a work that ordinary people could do, and Friedrich II would not listen to them, but he was willing to listen to the teachings of this woman, who was also a wife and a mother.

The subsequent developments are even more legendary, and Friedrich II, who originally intended to guard the kingdom left to him by his mother, was destined to be an extraordinary man. Three years after his marriage, the Pope and Otto IV fell out, and in order to find himself an obedient emperor, the Pope suddenly remembered that there was another nominally most orthodox Germanic king in distant Sicily. And this young king has always been under his control, and seems to be very obedient, so what are you waiting for, hurry up and play.

At the Pope's behalf, Friedrich II was brought back to his native Duchy of Swabia from Sicily, and in the midst of the praise, he became the king of the German kingdom who had been abandoned by his mother. His eldest son, Henry, who was just one year old, became king of Sicily, and Princess Aragon was regent of the kingdom, staying in Sicily to help her young son run the country. It was during this time that Friedrich II was disgusted with the Germanic lands, because he could not see his wife and son, and it was enough for a king to be in this position.

More aggrieved is yet to come! Within a few years, the princess of Aragon also contracted typhoid fever and died, but the young king had to stay in Germany to deal with the evil lords and lords of the kingdom all day. Karl and Friedrich II also met in the Duchy of Swabia, in fact, the two of them were not too close by blood, and Karl's family was not a big family, just a small branch of Swabia, and the fief was far away in Bohemia, that is, the Czech region in later generations.

Maybe it's because both of them are not very well treated that they are more angry. During his years as king in Germany, the young emperor always regarded Karl as his best friend, and the two of them shared happiness together, and more often than not, they could only share depression and fear. Otto IV did not give up the right to be king, and Friedrich II, who had just returned to the Duchy of Swabia, was immediately plunged into war. Under the Pope's arrangement, Louis VIII of the Franks and the young emperor signed an alliance against Otto IV. Friedrich II had to issue a golden edict in the name of the king, declaring that the Kingdom of Germany would renounce all rights in the Italian peninsula and cede the northern part of the peninsula, and also promising to launch a Fourth Crusade, which was the price of the papal support.

Eventually, Alto IV was defeated by the coalition forces, and Friedrich II officially became King of Germany and was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. At this time, the hard-line Pope Innocent III died, and he was replaced by Honorius III. This is an indecisive waste pope, who can't fight the adult emperor who has learned from the streets since he was a child, and as a result, the sphere of influence of the Papal States has shrunk sharply, if it weren't for the rise of the Lombards and Venetians, this Papal State is estimated to not survive the next pope to succeed to the throne, and it will have to be bulldozed by Friedrich II.

As an adult, Friedrich II became a quiet, decisive, majestic, and gentle emperor, and his childhood experiences made him extremely resilient, able to converse with the pope and whisper to any commoner on the street. Moreover, this emperor turned a miserable childhood into a kind of motivation, and since he had been exposed to everyone as a child, his understanding of the world was different from that of most nobles of this era.

He had no affection for Christianity, nor did he have any ill will toward the Jews, the A-Laps, or the Byzantines. Sicily was originally a place of great ethnic complexity, and he simply turned the royal palace of Palermo into the imperial palace of the empire, and since then he has been resident here, and he will never cross the Alps half a step without a big thing. He didn't care about the land of Germany at all, and spent his days in the imperial palace talking about art, music, and poetry with Orientalists from Ablo and Byzantium, and established a university in Naples, where the emperor himself occasionally took time to become a lecturer.

"Does he really speak seven languages?" The more Hong Tao listened, the more he felt that this emperor had a taste for himself, he was very similar to himself in some places, and he was born without much ambition, if it weren't for his resentment of the pope, I am afraid he would not have acted against the church. The seeds of hatred that have been planted since childhood will be difficult to dissipate, unless the Pope stops provoking him and slowly dilutes it. But the Papal States were surrounded by the Emperor's land, and it was impossible to be free of conflict. This is called a natural enemy, and you can't hide if you want to. (To be continued.) )

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