A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ioch, where a German traveller saw the coffin, recognizable byits inscription, in 1205. On moving to Palestine the soldiers car-ried the emperors bones along with them with the view of layingthem to final rest in some specially consecrated sjiot, after the cap-ture of the Holy City. The lamentable issue of the crusade pre-vented this, and the remains of the great Barbarossa were probablyleft to moulder unregarded in the sands of the camp before Acre. For Fredericks death (Fig. 122) caused the collapse of t
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ioch, where a German traveller saw the coffin, recognizable byits inscription, in 1205. On moving to Palestine the soldiers car-ried the emperors bones along with them with the view of layingthem to final rest in some specially consecrated sjiot, after the cap-ture of the Holy City. The lamentable issue of the crusade pre-vented this, and the remains of the great Barbarossa were probablyleft to moulder unregarded in the sands of the camp before Acre. For Fredericks death (Fig. 122) caused the collapse of theadmirably organized German crusade. The Germans felt like aflock in the wilderness without a shepherd, and many of them tookship at the nearest jjort for home. The others found a too generousreception in Antioch, many falling victims to the sudden transitionfrom the toils and privations of their mountain and desert marchesto the indulgences of a luxurious city. Duke Frederick carriedthe miserable remnants of the German force to the camp before 272 CHRIHTIANITI AND ISLAM, Fio. 122. — Emperor Frederick I. Relief in stone, in the Cloister of 8t. Zenc inBavaria, about 1170-U90. (From von Hefner-Alteneck.) CAllTULATION OF ACRE. 273 Acre, where it took up the position assigned it on the line of invest-ment. On the Anglo-French united army the fortunes of the ChristianIdngdom of Jerusalem now hung. To the spirit of planless adven-ture from which the joint enterprise had suffered from the first,there was now superadded that of mistrust between its two heads,Richard of the Lion Heart, and Philip Augustus. They had effecteda junction at Messina; but there the intrigues of the Enghsh kinginterposed such obstacles to their departure, that a complete ruptureseemed imminent. At length Philip, wearied out, and hoping to in-duce his capricious ally to follow him, set sail again, and joined thearmy of the Syrian Christians, who, succored by the Italian maritimecities, had commen
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