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Item#:
IGN-CU024
Price: $TBA
Description:
After Jerusalem had been
recaptured by the armies of Islam under Saladin.
Among the responders to Gregory's call were three
of Europe's greatest kings: the Western emperor,
Frederick Barbarossa; Philip Augustus, king of
France; and Richard I, the Lion-hearted, king
of England. Frederick, nearly seventy, set out
overland with an army of one hundred thousand,
of which fifty thousand were on horseback. He
drowned before reaching Jerusalem, in the Kalycadnus
river near Cilicia. His son, Frederick of Swabia,
led a demoralized, and much smaller, remnant of
the army on to Acre (Ptolemais), which was already
under siege by Guy of Lusignan.
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