Crusades · TURNING POINT ·
Death of Frederick Barbarossa (1190)
On the Crusades map as “The Saleph”
10 Jun 1190 — Frederick Barbarossa, the mightiest king of the age, drowns crossing a river in Cilicia. His great German army dissolves in grief and disease before it reaches the Holy Land.
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- Third Crusade (chapter 7 of Crusades)
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- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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