Several references are made to him in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which a series of anti-German jokes start with a horse theft, several references are made to German travellers in England and to a German duke who is not expected to come to Windsor.

Frederick visited various courts in Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Austria, France, Italy and England.

In a calculated slight, he was not informed of his admission in time to attend the investiture in spring 1597, the ceremony for which The Merry Wives of Windsor was written.

His councillor Benjamin von Buwinckhausen helped organise the ceremonies in the church and castle at Stuttgart.

[2] In 1599, Frederick I issued an order that a new town should be established at the northern extremity of the Black Forest by the name of Freudenstadt.