Encyclopedia - Podestà: Encyclopedia Ii - Podestà - Italian History
Podestàs were first appointed by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa about 1158 when he began to assert the rights that his Impe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Podestà: Encyclopedia Ii - Podestà - Frisian Potestaat
The concept of a local man empowered to represent the Emperor was also a feature of medieval Frisia. From apocryphal beginnings, importan...   » Read the article