Friedrich Müller

Friedrich Müller was a German noble who was Holy Roman Emperor for a short time.

Biography
Müller inherited a successful milling business from his family. He was thoroughly middle class in a society where advancing further was very difficult. The local count was very weak and had no heirs. Müller used his position as a successful business man to become good friends with the Duke of Bavaria. When the Count died, there was a small conflict between mercenaries hired by Müller and ones hired by the Count's distant relative. Müller won the conflict with the support of the Duke and managed to become the Count of the local area.

It was difficult for Müller as he was not a noble, but he managed to stay in power for many years and even waged war against other vassals of the Holy Roman Empire. Eventually he managed to usurp the title of the Duchy of Bavaria. From this position he became good friends with other powerful vassals and even the Kaiser himself. When the Kaiser died of old age a few years later, Müller somehow won the election for the next one and was crowned in 1084. He would die in 1090 of illness and his family sons would fight in wars to keep their titles, but they could not do it and they lost all of the titles their father had won them. They would keep the milling business though, and continue their lives as middle class citizens.