commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Frederick Barbarossa

Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190, 1122 to 1190

Frederick Barbarossa is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1155 and 1176: 1 battle and 3 sieges, all in present-day Italy. Taken in date order, the sites lie 260 km apart end to end, 87 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Gregorian Reform (4).

4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Gregorian Reform 4

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
13 February 1155	Siege of Tortona	Tortona, Italy		Imperial victory
2 July 1159	Siege of Crema	Crema, Italy	83 km NE	Imperial victory
29 October 1174	Siege of Alessandria	Alessandria, Italy	97 km SW	Lombard League victory; Imperial siege abandoned...
29 May 1176	Battle of Legnano	Legnano, Italy	80 km N	Lombard League victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Münzstätte Frankfurt a.M., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.