Henry VI of Germany

1197

Henry VI was son and successor of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, who succeeded his father in the imperial title in 1191. Following the end of the Third Crusade in stalemate, Henry initiated his own crusade campaign, one part of a much larger Mediterranean strategy encomassing the conquest of Sicily and southern Italy and complex negotiations with the Byzantine empire and the kingdom of Cyprus. He died in 1197 in Italy, but parts of his expedition did set off for the Latin East.

Arnold of Lübeck, Chronica Slavorum, tr. Graham Loud (London: Routledge, 2019)

Graham Loud, "The German Crusade of 1197-8," Crusades 13 (2014), 143-172