Frederick II dies in Apulia
December 13, 1250
The stupor mundi died unexpectedly at Castel Fiorentino, dressed in Cistercian robes. With him died Hohenstaufen dreams of a united Italo-German empire. The Great Interregnum descended on Germany; the papacy set out to exterminate his line. His death removed the last emperor who genuinely threatened papal supremacy, and the vacuum he left in Italy sparked decades of Guelph-Ghibelline warfare.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.