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The Letter on the Death of the Emperor Frederick [2] (Latin: Epistola de morte Friderici imperatoris) is an anonymous Latin newsletter about the sudden death of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on 10 June 1190 during the Third Crusade. The letter was written by an eyewitness before the crusader army arrived at Antioch on 19 June.
According to Henry of Huntington, while visiting relatives, the English king ate too many lampreys against his physician's advice, causing a pain in his gut which led to his death. [8] [12] [14] [15] John II Komnenos: 1 April 1143: The Byzantine Emperor cut himself with a poisoned arrow during a boar hunt, subsequently dying from sepsis. [16 ...
Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (German: Friedrich I; Italian: Federico I), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152.
Beatrice of Swabia [1] (1162/3–1174), also spelled Beatrix, was a princess of the Staufer dynasty, a daughter of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Countess Beatrice I of Burgundy. She was born in 1162 or 1163, the first child of her parents. [2] [3] [4] She was named after her mother as her eldest brother, Frederick, was named after her father ...
Barbarossa divided his forces into two: one commanded by his son the Duke Frederick of Swabia leading the assault to the city, and the other commanded by himself facing the Turkish field army. [1] The city fell easily; Duke Frederick was able to assault and take the walls with little resistance, and the garrison failed to put up much of a fight ...
In May 1189, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa began his expedition to the Holy Land as part of the Third Crusade to recover the city of Jerusalem from the forces of Saladin. After an extended stay in the European territories of the Byzantine Empire, the Imperial army crossed over to Asia at the Dardanelles from 22–28 March 1190.
Frederick I's expedition to Głogów took place when Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa launched an campaign into Poland to support Władysław II the Exile, exiled son of Bolesław III Wrymouth. The conflict centered on the defense of Głogów. Despite initial resistance, the Polish forces were overwhelmed by the German army's superior strength.
The incident of the death of Emperor Frederick, while on the Third Crusade, is a key element of the plot. This part involves an element of secret history – the book asserts that Emperor Frederick had not drowned in a river, as history records, but died mysteriously at night while hosted at the castle of a sinister Armenian noble.