When we last left Frederick II, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor after years of struggle. But this episode dives into Frederick’s fraught relationship with the papacy, his bold diplomacy with ...

Death of Emperor Frederick II. The most gifted, vivid and extraordinary of the medieval Holy Roman Emperors died on December 13th, 1250. ... guarded by black eunuchs. He had dancing girls, an Arab ...

View Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and Emperor of Austria, in white coat with gold-striped facings and collar, frilled cravat and black stock, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Gladiator II. Some contemporary accounts suggest that they did some scheming. “In one of the sources, it even says that they had a plan to split the ...

Gladiator II might seem too wild to be believed — Colosseum rhinos and baboons and sharks, oh my! — but it’s based on real-life Roman history and people. Just as Joaquin Phoenix played ...

But not much is known about the brothers and their short reign. According to Mary Beard, classicist and author of Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, most of that time would have been ...

Gladiator II is the sequel nobody saw coming. The original finished with Maximus and Commodus dead and we felt confident that the story could not be continued. So what does the sequel have to offer?

The Empire is in decline and Diocletian is looking to restore it to glory by going back to the old ways, including an edict that none but the Roman gods are to be worshiped.

At the behest of her husband Maximilian of Habsburg, later to become emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the sumptuous tomb was commissioned. The wooden model was created by sculptor Jan Borreman with ...