The age of the crusades . stop with the old would yield all he had taken or claimed, if onlyhe might be permitted to lead the armies of Europesafely into the walls of distant Acre. This capitula-tion was reluctantly accepted by the Sultan of haughty cardinal, the brave King John of Bri-enne, the Duke of Bavaria, and many of the noblesmeditated their disgrace as hostages in the hostilecamp, while the Christian soldiers were still waitingthe will of their conqueror in the marshes. KingJohn of Brienne one day sat down at the feet of thesultan and burst into tears. The Mosl
The age of the crusades . stop with the old would yield all he had taken or claimed, if onlyhe might be permitted to lead the armies of Europesafely into the walls of distant Acre. This capitula-tion was reluctantly accepted by the Sultan of haughty cardinal, the brave King John of Bri-enne, the Duke of Bavaria, and many of the noblesmeditated their disgrace as hostages in the hostilecamp, while the Christian soldiers were still waitingthe will of their conqueror in the marshes. KingJohn of Brienne one day sat down at the feet of thesultan and burst into tears. The Moslem respectedhis courage and was grieved at the distress which 312 The Fifth Crusade. seemingly had shaken it. Why do you weep ? heasked. To see my brave people perishing withhunger amid the waters. The sultan immediatelyprovisioned the Christian camp, and sent his own sonto conduct the host in safety out of the land theyhad come to conquer (autumn, 1221). THE SIXTH CRUSADE. CHAPTER XLI. FREDERICK II. AND POPE GREGORY EVEN years elapsed before another at-tempt worthy of record was made for therecapture of Palestine. Frederick II.(Hohenstaufen) of Germany was its lead-er ; hero it had was one of the ablest men of the twelfthand thirteenth centuries, though not meriting thetitle given him by an English chronicler, the Won-der of the World. The grandson of Frederick Bar-barossa, son of Henry IV. and Constance of Sicily,he united in his person the strongest traits of .Ger-man and Italian stock. Born in 1194, at two yearsof age he was elected king of the Romans, and inhis fourth year was crowned King of Sicily. PopeInnocent III. was the guardian of his childhood, andwell discharged his duty, if the rare education ofFrederick may be taken as evidence. The royalyouth mastered Latin, Greek, French, German, and 313 314 The Sixth Crusade. knew something of Arabic and Hebrew; he wascreditably versed in Saracenic science and arts, aswell as in Christian philosophy and sc
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