Frederick was great

not om. as a soldier, but as a ruler, His administration was marked by justice, his subordinate officers were chosen for their capacity and probity, he was himself an educated man and promoted education and literature. His memory is still cherished among the peasants of Germany, who dream of the return of Fritz Kedbeard, as the Welsh did of King Arthur. He died in June, 1190. Frederick II., Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, son of Henry VI. and Con stance, of Sicily; born in Jesi, Dec. 26, 1194, elected king of the Romans in 1196, again after his father’s death, and a third time on the excommunication of Otho LV., in 1211. Frederick was the most accomplished sovereign of the Middle Ages; but his strong sympathies with his Italian motherland, and his unremitting endeavors to establish a compact and all supreme empire in Italy, were the causes, not only of his own misfortunes, but of the miseries which he brought on the German empire, by embroiling him in costly wars abroad, and leading him to neglect the welfare and sacrifice the interests of his German subjects. He died in Viorenzuoli, Dee. 18, 1250. Frederick III., Emperor of the Holy Roman Hmpire, a title sometimes applied.to the son of Albert I., who was chosen emperor by some of the electors in 1314, but was defeated by Louis of Bavaria and taken prisoner in 1322. He died Jan. 11, 1330. The Frederick III. of history, however, was the son of Ernst, and was born in Innsbruck, Dec. 21, 1415. He was elected emperor in 1440 and ruled for 63 years, the longest German reign. His sobriquet was “the Pacific,” owing to his plans for the pacification ‘of the empire. He died in Ling, Aug. 19, 1493. Frederick V., Blector-Palatine and King of Bohemia; born in Amberg in Ne mini tele an) 1596; succeeded his father, Frederick LV., in 1610. In 1618 he married the Prince Elizabeth, daughter of James I. of England, and in the following year accepted the crown of Bohemia. He made a_ triumphal entry into Prague, followed in 1620 by his total defeat i the Imperial forces at the battle of Prague, and the lo of his kingdom and hereditary States. He took refuge in Holland, and died in Mentz, Germany, Noy. 19, 1632. From him, through his marriage, is descended the present royal family of England.