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1212 Frederick had been educated under the guardianship of the Popes. he began his reign by Confirming the Concordat of 1122. which granted great Privileges to the Church, & promising to engage in a Crusade; but the cares of government having obliged him to delay fulfilling that promise, the Pope Excommunicated him, & hostilities were renewed between the Guelphs & the Ghibelins. Tho Frederick afterwards went to the Holy Land, where by treaty he obtained the cession of Jerusalem, & other cities to the Christians, yet he could not appease the Roman Pontiff, who not only deposed him, but caused another Emperor to be elected, & preached a Crusade against him; Civil war now raged more furiously than ever. Frederick died at Naples in 1250. His Second wife was Islanda of Brienne heiress to the Kg. of Jerusalem which Title Frederick assumed, & it has ever after been borne by the Kings of Sicily. 1250
