Frederick Barbarossa

His code name for the invasion was “Operation Barbarossa,” after the great twelfth-century tactician and emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who unified many European kingdoms under German rule as leader of the Holy Roman Empire.

The story involves the sufferings of the Tuscan populace under the occupying yoke of Frederick Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of Germany.

And if you do come up with something, was it also there back in the days of Goethe, of Martin Luther and of Frederick Barbarossa?

His maternal ancestors had been given the right, by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, to bear the arms of the Holy Roman Empire.

We will never be sure for example if a certain Colonel Walker of the Royal Marines knew much about Frederick Barbarossa, emperor of the Germans.