Crusade of 1197
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The Crusade of 1197, also known as the Crusade of Henry VI or the German Crusade, 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".
Frederick of Austria on the cruise to the Holy Land, Babenberg pedigree, Klosterneuburg Monastery, c. 1490
Reconquest of Beirut, Alexandre Hesse, 1842
Henry and Pope Celestine, from Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli, 1196
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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Otto IV was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218.
Otto IV and Pope Innocent III shake hands
Statues of Otto IV & Maria of Brabant, old city hall, Braunschweig, c. 1455.