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Death of Frederick Barbarossa (1190)
On the Crusades map as “The Saleph”
10 Jun 1190 — Frederick Barbarossa, the mightiest king of the age, drowns while crossing a river in Cilicia. His great German army breaks apart amid grief and disease before reaching the Holy Land.
When 10 Jun 1190 Type Turning point Chapter Third Crusade (chapter 7 of Crusades)Atlas The Crusades, 1095–1291 TURNING POINT · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Simon Barton — Crusading in Iberia, c. 1060–1212 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Crusades (1095–1291) · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · OpenStax — The Crusading Movement
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated polygons selected; local transfers and shared frontier edges derived with documented historical event corrections. Simon Barton, The Cambridge History of the Crusades. Published summary consulted for dated conquests; no map copied Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, 2014. Facts consulted; no prose or image copied Natural Earth. Public domain OpenStax, World History Volume 1. CC BY 4.0 At some ports, source coastlines have offsets of several kilometers at their resolution. The original polygons are preserved, and the review record gives explicit coastal anchor tolerances.
Chapter anchor and source snapshot date remain separate: 1191 / 1192
reconstruction: 1028–1325 · reconstruction: 1040–1235 · reconstruction: 1099–1235 · reconstruction: 1147–1209 · reconstruction: 1169–1209 · reconstruction: 1188–1209 · reconstruction: 1192 · reconstruction: 1192–1201 · vector: 1018–1205 · vector: 1072–1235 · vector: 1072–1249 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1094–1235 · vector: 1099–1226 · vector: 1139–1201 · vector: 1139–1226 · vector: 1147–1201 · vector: 1152–1201 · vector: 1152–1205 · vector: 1169–1205 · vector: 1169–1209 · vector: 1177–1201 · vector: 1177–1259 · vector: 1188–1201 · vector: 1188–1205 · vector: 1188–1209 · vector: 1188–1215 · vector: 1188–1219 · vector: 1188–1235 · vector: 1188–1259 · vector: 1188–1271 · vector: 1192 · vector: 1192–1201 · vector: 1192–1205 · vector: 1192–1235 · vector: 1192–1362
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