Henry VI of Germany
Expedition Date/s
1197
Biography
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.
Source
Arnold of Lübeck, Chronica Slavorum, tr. Graham Loud (London: Routledge, 2019)
Bibliography
Graham Loud, "The German Crusade of 1197-8," Crusades 13 (2014), 143-172
Citation
“Henry VI of Germany,” Independent Crusaders Project, accessed October 7, 2024, https://independentcrusadersproject.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/185.