On the evening of May 16, 1742, Frederick II, King of Prussia and his 10.000-strong army set up camp somewhere in Bohemia. The men lit their campfires and began cooking, while Frederick talked ...

Frederick II promised to go on crusade, but delays pushed him into open conflict with the papacy. Pope Gregory IX excommunicated him after illness and delay kept him from departing as expected, but ...

POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. The legend is this: King Frederick II of Prussia wanted his subjects to eat potatoes, ...

A look at Frederick II who, behind his numerous titles and positions, including both king and emperor, was an "inexhaustible intellectual adventurer and a bold politician and strategist." Christmas ...

Few figures of the Middle Ages are as famous as Frederick II of Swabia, emperor and king of Sicily. Around this sovereign who lived between 1194 and 1250 legends and myths arose and dozens of ...

Dr Adam Storring helps us understand Frederick II of Prussia, a complicated man, who like Xerxes and Alexander III before him, was obsessed with outdoing and outshining his father. Read the transcript ...