Before revision: Portrait of a by Lodewijk Toeput Podests were first more widely appointed by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa when he began to assert the rights that his Imperial position gave him over the cities of northern Italy; at the second imperial diet at Roncaglia, November 1158, Frederick appointed in several major cities imperial "as if having imperial power in that place".quasi habens potestatem imperialis in hac parte.
After revision: Portrait of a by Lodewijk Toeput Podestà were first more widely appointed by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa when he began to assert the rights that his Imperial position gave him over the cities of northern Italy; at the second imperial diet at Roncaglia, November 1158, Frederick appointed in several major cities imperial "as if having imperial power in that place".quasi habens potestatem imperialis in hac parte.