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How did the Guelphs and Hohenstaufens unite?

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Amity between the two dynasties was restored with the accession of Frederick I of Hohenstaufen as Holy Roman emperor in 1155. His mother, Judith, was the sister of Henry the Proud, and Frederick I thus united in his person the two chief rival houses of Germany.

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