"German Crusade" redirects here. For the 11th-century German crusade that culminated in a series of pogroms, see Rhineland massacres.
Crusade
Crusade of 1197
Part of the Crusades
Date
22 September 1197 – 1 July 1198
Location
The Levant
Result
Crusader victory
Territorial changes
Beirut restored to the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Cyprus
Duchy of Brabant
Duchy of Austria
Landgraviate of Thuringia
County Palatine of the Rhine
Duchy of Merania
Bishopric of Passau
Bishopric of Hildesheim
Bishopric of Halberstadt
County of Gorizia
Ayyubids
Commanders and leaders
Henry VI
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Amalric of Cyprus
Henry I, Duke of Brabant
Frederick of Austria
Herman I, Landgrave of Thuringia
Henry V of the Rhine
Berthold, Duke of Merania
Wolfger von Erla
Conrad of Querfurt
Gardolf of Halberstadt
Meinhard II, Count of Gorizia
Al-Adil I
Strength
16,000[1]
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown
Unknown
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Crusades
Ideology and institutions
Crusading movement
In the Holy Land (1095–1291)
First
1101
Norwegian
Venetian
1129
Second
Third
1197
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Barons'
Seventh
1267
Catalan
Eighth
Lord Edward's
Fall of Outremer
Later Crusades (1291–1717)
Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399
Aragonese
Smyrniote
Alexandrian
Savoyard
Barbary
1390
1398
1399
Nicopolis
Varna
Holy Leagues
1332
1495
1511
1526
1535
1538
1571
1594
1684
1717
Northern (1147–1410)
Kalmar
Wendish
Swedish
1150
1249
1293
Livonian
Prussian
Lithuanian
Russian
Against heretics (1209–1485)
Albigensian
Drenther
Stedinger
Bosnian
Bohemian
Despenser's
Hussite
Popular (1096–1320)
People's (1096)
Children's
Shepherds' (1251)
Crusade of the Poor
Shepherds' (1320)
Reconquista (722–1492)
The Crusade of 1197, also known as the Crusade of Henry VI (German: Kreuzzug Heinrichs VI.) or the German Crusade (Deutscher Kreuzzug), was a crusade launched by the Hohenstaufen emperor Henry VI in response to the aborted attempt of his father, Emperor Frederick I, during the Third Crusade in 1189–90.
Thus the military campaign is also known as the "Emperor's Crusade" (echoing the name "Kings' Crusade" given to the Third Crusade).[2]
While his forces were already on their way to the Holy Land, Henry VI died before his departure in Messina on 28 September 1197. The emerging throne conflict between his brother Philip of Swabia and the Welf rival Otto of Brunswick made many higher-ranking crusaders return to Germany in order to protect their interests in the next imperial election.[3] The nobles remaining on the campaign captured the Levant coast between Tyre and Tripoli before returning to Germany. The Crusade ended after the Christians captured Sidon and Beirut from the Muslims in 1198.[3]
^Loud 2014, p. 160.
^The Crusades, C. 1071-c. 1291 By Jean Richard, Jean Birrell, pg. 237
^ abNorwich, John Julius (1997). A Short History of Byzantium. New York: Vintage Books. p. 298.
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