holy roman emperor

Reconstructs the life of Constance of Hauteville--wife of twelfth-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI of Germany and mother of Emperor Frederick II--chronicling, among other topics, her return to Sicily at the age of forty to rule her homeland.

Follows Maximilian, son of King Ferdinand of Austria, and his wedding present the elephant Soliman, in their procession from Spain to Vienna in 1551.

Measures the strategic aims of Emperor Charles V's personal campaigns during the sixteenth century and examines who and what financed them.

Examines the achievements of four great medieval warlords: Richard the Lion Heart, Charlemagne, El Cid, and Barbarossa.

A biography of the Holy Roman Emperor whose reign influenced almost every important event in Western history between 1516 and 1556.