Example sentences for: barbarossa

How can you use “barbarossa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The communes were strong enough to confine German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa’s Italian ambitions to the south, where he secured Sicily for his Hohenstaufen heirs by marrying his son into the Norman royal family.

  • Ruling from Palermo, Barbarossa’s highly cultured but brutal grandson Frederick II (1194–1250) was a prototype for the future Renaissance prince.

  • It began with raids on Chaniá and Sitía in the 1530s by the notorious pirate, Barbarossa Khair el-Din.

  • The family had lived in the southwest German province of Swabia for centuries, and believed itself to be descended from the Hohenstaufen dynasty, whose lineage included the Holy Roman emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Frederick II.

  • Turkish corsairs, notably the infamous Barbarossa, helped to conquer Algiers and Tunis.


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