HOHENSTAUFFENS, THE

HOHENSTAUFFENS, THE
   the third dynasty of the Romish kaisers, which held the imperial throne from 1138 to 1254, commencing with Frederick I., or Barbarossa, and ending with Conrad IV., five in all; derived their name from a castle on the Hohenstauffen Berg, by the left bank of the Danube, 30 m. below Stuttgart.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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