Weisskunig
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Book · Open Library
- Author
- Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor
- First published
- 1956
- Editions
- 2
via Open Library
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Background
- Composition and publication
- Content
- Reception
- See also
- References
thumb|The White King Learning to Conduct a Kitchen, woodcut by Hans Burgkmair
Der Weisskunig or The White King is a chivalric novel and thinly disguised biography of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, (1486–1519) written in German by Maximilian and his secretary between 1505 and 1516. Although not explicitly identified as such in the book, Maximilian appears as the "young" White King, with his father Frederick III represented as the "old" White King.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Weisskunig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.