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The History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick (Latin: Historia de expeditione Friderici imperatoris) is an anonymous Latin account of the campaign waged by Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, as part of the Third Crusade. It covers the period 1187–1196, but is centred on the expedition of 1189–1190.
The Deeds of the Emperor Frederick on the Holy Expedition (Gesta Federici in expeditione sacra) is a short, anonymous Latin account of Frederick Barbarossa's campaign on the Third Crusade (1189–1190). It was probably written in Italy in the 1190s. [1] Decorated initial G at the start of the Deeds in MS BnF lat. 4931
The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 (a.k.a. the Greely Expedition [1]) to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, and was promoted by the United States Army Signal Corps.
The Sixth Crusade (1228–1229), also known as the Crusade of Frederick II, was a military expedition to recapture Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land.It began seven years after the failure of the Fifth Crusade and involved very little actual fighting.
The expedition also crossed Ellesmere Island from east to west, and James B. Lockwood and David Legge Brainard achieved a new "farthest north" record of 83° 23' 8" on Lockwood Island. [7] In 1882, Greely sighted a mountain range during a dog sledding exploration to the interior of northern Ellesmere Island and named it the Conger Range . [ 8 ]
In the history of Holy Roman Empire only two empresses were captured, with the other being her mother-in-law Empress Beatrice. [1] Shortly before ascending the Sicilian throne, at the age of 40, she gave birth to her only child, Frederick, thus continuing the bloodlines of both the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Sicily.
Frederick's position was solidified by the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302, after which the crusaders were unable to dislodge him. [115] [116] [117] Crusade against the Colonna Cardinals. The Crusade against the Colonna Cardinals (1298) was a crusade of Boniface VIII against the Colonna family. [118] [119] [120] Expedition of the Almogavars.
The Crusaders were ultimately unable to defeat Muslim forces in the last Crusade.As the result, Jerusalem remained under Muslim control. [4]Upon his death, Frederick's German crusading host, totaling perhaps 12,000 to 15,000 men, mostly disbanded and a much smaller contingent led by Frederick's son Duke Frederick VI of Swabia continued to the Holy Land, [5] [6] where they joined the Siege of Acre.