Frederick ii crusade

The new name was applied to the hill castle of Staufen by historians only in the 19th century to distinguish it from other castles of the same name. The name of the dynasty followed suit, but in recent decades, the trend in German historiography has been to prefer the name 'Staufer', which is closer to contemporary usage. This term was commonly applied to conical hills in Swabia during the Middle Ages.

The castle was built or at least acquired by Duke Frederick I of Swabia in the latter half of the 11th century. Members of the family occasionally used the toponymic surname de Stauf or variants thereof. Only in the 13th century would the name come to be applied to the family as a whole. Around , a chronicler referred to the "emperors of Stauf".

In , the Emperor Frederick II himself referred to his family as the domus Stoffensis Staufer house , but this was an isolated instance. Otto of Freising d. The exact connection between the family and Waiblingen is not clear, but as a name for the family, it became very popular.

Frederick ii death

The pro-imperial Ghibelline faction of the Italian civic rivalries of the 13th and 14th centuries derived its name from Waiblingen. In Italian historiography, the Staufer are known as the Svevi Swabians. A local count Frederick d. At the same time, Duke Frederick I was engaged to the king's approximately seventeen-year-old daughter, Agnes. Frederick's brother Otto was elevated to the Strasbourg bishopric in Frederick II remained a close ally of the Salians, he and his younger brother Conrad were named the king's representatives in Germany when the king was in Italy.