Dear rebellymotzkugel tumblr ate your ask but here is your reply! =D
1. Favorite time period: (late) MIDDLE AGES, DUH (big surprise here)
3. Favorite female HF: Theophanu! (Empress to the Holy Roman Empire and wife of Otto II.)
5. A time period I dislike or find boring: 1700's to 1850's (The Humanism as well as the Theories of State developing at this time might be important but they bore me to death. *yawn* Only Friedrich II. of Prussia can keep me entertained.)
8. An obscure HF who needs more love: One of them is probably Wilhlem of Holland. German King and almost Kaiser, one of those three kings in the time period between the reign of the Staufer and then the Habsburger Kings and Emperors, who broke into the ice of the North Sea and got beat to death by some Frisians - they thought he was fucking with them when he told them he was king. (There was some animosity between the nobles of Holland and the Frisians and the latter had some experience with taking people captive who would then claim to be kings or nobles and worth a juicy ransom when in fact they were not. The Frisians were sick and tired of that shit... Many, many years later Wilhelm's son retrieved his father's body with a host in his back.)
Then there is Friedrich II., German King and Emperor, often overshadowed by his grandfather Friedrich I. Barbarossa, grew up in a multi-cultural envoirnment on Sicily - he knew Muslims and Orthodox Christians from Bizantia and lived a pretty sunny life and never cared much for the cold lands north of the Alps that were his. To keep his obscure story simple: At some point the Pope told him to go on a Cursade and reclaim Jerusalem, the usual. Friedrich II. refused and first told the Pope he was too sick... later he refused the Pope a second time, teling him that he didn't have enough money to pay for his host etc., and that, basically, the trip to Jerusalem was much too expensive. The Pope had finally enoug and excommunicated Friedrich. To everyone who isn't firm on Medieval Christianity, it's like THE catastrophe. With excommunicating the King and Emperor, you basically deprive ALL of his subjects their much needed religios care - mass, confession, last rites. Everyone still loyal to him counts automatically as excommunicated. It's a fucking mess... and thus Friedrich II. finally gives in, takes his host and marches into the Holy Land... and cause he grew up with Muslims and probably spoke one Arabic language or another, he sat down at a table with their leaders and NEGOTIATED! And the Pope was even angrier with him: How dare he? He is not a valid member of the Christian community and he dare go to war in the name of the Church and God!???? And then HE DIDN'T EVEN KILL THE HEATHEN MUSLIMS! HE TALKED TO THEM! OUTRAGEOUS!
[Sorry that those aren't really 'obscure historical persons' but just obscure but true stories about two kings. ♥]