#frederick ii

[fuwbuki]

WIGS WIGS WIGS

Not gonna lie this only exists bc i remembered the “do you wear wigs?” interview.

Not very satisfied how the bottom ones turned out. Voltaire looks really goofy...

[bantarleton]

The Battle of Hochkirk, 1758, by Leinwand von Hyacinth de La Penga, an Austrian victory over Frederick the Great’s Prussians during the Seven Years War.

[duke-of-hellsite]

While I was absent from this precious website, I've been working on one lil thing, essentially a transcript of a small document from the court of Frederick II (December 1222) Long story short: I saw a photo of it on Wikimedia with no transcript of the Latin text (they sometimes include transcripts but not in this case), decided I was curious what's the doc about, and started working on the transcript I've finished the beta version of the transcript, but before I upload it to Wikimedia I wanted to ask y'all here to look it through. I don't know Latin (sad, I know), so there can be stupid mistakes with verbs' conjugations 'n' stuff like that. I would really appreciate any help here Guide: Round brackets (in bold) are for my comments and where commas could be placed. Square brackets are for dots in the original document (I have no idea what they mean: truncation, full stop, or smth else) and incomprehensible words (at least I didn't get 'em) By the way many thanks to Arizona Tea (kept my sanity) and @mformarsala (helped a lot). Love you both

(Source of the photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

(Source of the transcript: Me, Myself, and I, id est duke-of-hellsite)

(if you need a text file vers of the transcript - dm me)

[thebeesareback]

Frederick, the potato king

I am not a monarchist. I do, however, occassionally look at monarchs and think, huh, they seem pretty cool. Meet Frederick the Great.

Frederick ruled Prussia from 1712 to 1786. During this time he:

was woken up by a cannon each morning, because his father wanted him to be a military leader

wrote "Anti-Machiavel", a rebuttal to Machiavelli's The Prince

was gay

married a woman to keep his father happy, then separated from her, gave her a palace and visited her once a year for her birthday

was friends with Voltaire

was king of Prussia but wrote exclusively in French. Frederick was a bit of a Francophile, mostly because his dad hated the place

introduced potatoes and turnips to Prussia, and was known as "Der Kartoffelkönig". Potatoes were initially unpopular, so Frederick had them planted and guarded so they looked expensive and desirable. However, the guards were told to let people steal the potatoes

his head was permanently tilted to one side because he spent so long playing his flute

opened the first veterinary school in Prussia

gave everyone free entry to the opera

sheltered Jean-Jacques Rousseau

was bad at spelling (a relatable icon) (also, he was writing in French, and French spelling is even more ridiculous than English)

drank eight cups of coffee each day, mixed with mustard and peppercorns. The cannon alarm clock was discontinued after his father died, so I guess eight cups of coffee would probably be just as effective for waking one up

his lasts words were "cover the dog, he's shivering".

wanted to be buried with his greyhounds. This didn't happen, but now he had a nice gravestone and people leave potatoes there

[gaetanomajoranocaffarelli]

Frederick II of Prussia's music room reality VS painting (The Flute Concert, 1852 by Adolph Menzel)

[giuseppelaporta]

Volti dei tre anziani della Cattedrale di Termoli

Nel lato sinistro del capitello, il consigliere e giurista di Federico II, Pier delle Vigne, mentre nel lato destro abbiamo il secondo giurista più vicino all'imperatore, Taddeo da Sessa, e nel centro, un anziano dalla lunga barba ed il volto malinconico o dolente, identificabile come il pontefice Onorio III, magister regis dell'infante Federico, oppure il terzo più importante consigliere di quest'ultimo, il gran maestro teutonico Ermanno de Salza.

Cattedrale di Santa Maria della Purificazione, Termoli (CB), prima metà del XIII secolo (1225-1235), secondo capitello del lato sinistro della facciata principale.

[baysilmav]

frederick ii

MEOW

[merry-kenobi]

I tried this Barbie filter, and now I made these...

[sherbertilluminated]

my friends & I projecting onto people who died centuries ago

[dragoninahumancostume]

I was trying to organize my closet, I managed to finish right before Get Down (Six) started playing. I heard the portrait part again and decided I'd research a bit because it made me curious. Half an hour later and I'm reading about Leonor of Austria and Frederic II's love

[alter-petrus]

Sì, certo, ieri si commemorava la nascita di Isaac Newton, ma oggi chi manda assieme a me un pensiero a Federico II?

[royal-confessions]

“Sometimes when I read about how historic monarchs treated their children I think "wow, I honestly wouldn't blame the children if they'd decided patricide was the best solution." Looking at you, Frederick William I and how your treated Frederick the Great.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[surbifarfaen]

Prince Frederick II & Hans Hermann von Katte

(Please ignore the horrible background, I’m very lazy)

[duke-of-hellsite]

While y’all trying to get over Christmas, I want to wish a Happy Birthday to history’s favourite Antichrist

[roehenstart]

Otto of Austria (1301-1339), his successive wives and children:

Elizabeth of Bavaria (1306-1330), Anna of Luxembourg (1323-1338), Frederick II (1327–1344) and Leopold II, Duke of Austria (1328-1344).

[acrossthealternateuniverse]

PART 12: PRINCESS HENRIETTA

AU: All of Catherine of Aragon’s, Anne Boleyn’s, and Jane Seymour’s pregnancies are carried to term and healthy, but they’re all daughters. [Part 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9 // 10 // 11 // 13 // 14]

(Read on AO3)