Barbarossa lives longer ->Effects Fouth Crusade

Frederick embarked on the Third Crusade (1189), a massive expedition in conjunction with the French, led by king Philip Augustus, and the English, under Richard Lionheart. He organized a grand army of 100,000 to 150,000 men and set out on the overland route to the Holy Land.

The Crusaders passed through Hungary and Serbia and then entered Byzantine territory, arriving at Constantinople in the autumn of 1189. From there they pushed on through Anatolia (where they were victorious in two battles) and Cilician Armenia. The approach of the immense German army greatly concerned Saladin and the other Muslim leaders, who began to rally troops of their own and prepare to confront Barbarossa's forces.
However, on 10 June 1190, Frederick died while crossing the Saleph River (now known as Göksu) in Cilicia, south-eastern Anatolia. The exact circumstances are unknown. It is likely that he was jumping in when the shock of the cold water caused him to have a heart attack at the age of 64. Weighed down by his mail armour, he drowned in water that was barely hip-deep, according to the chronicler Ali ibn al-Athir. The armour of the day, designed to be as light as possible, was probably not heavy enough to cause a healthy man to drown in hip-deep waters; however, some reenactors and living historians argue that, in light of Frederick's advanced age, the weight of the armour plus the difficulty of struggling through water (not something many armoured men would be accustomed to), could have forced him under before reaching shore.
Frederick's death plunged his army into chaos. Leaderless, panicked, and attacked on all sides by Turks, many Germans deserted, were killed, or even committed suicide. Only 5,000 soldiers, a tiny fraction of the original forces, arrived in Acre. Barbarossa's son, Frederick VI of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed. Hence, his flesh was interred in the Church of St. Peter in Antiochia, his bones in the cathedral of Tyre, and his heart and inner organs in Tarsus.

Frederick's untimely death left the Crusader army under the command of the rivals Philip II of France and Richard I of England ("Lionheart"), who had traveled to Palestine separately by sea, and ultimately led to its dissolution. Richard Lionheart continued to the East where he fought Saladin with excellent results, but ended without accomplishing the Crusaders' main goal, the capture of Jerusalem and the Holy Land

?So WI Fredrick doesn't drown? Maybe he was riding a horse across the river. :):)
 
Barbarossa

This has come up before. It he reached northern Syria, the prince of Antioch would have desired that he (Frederick) assist him to recapture territories that Saladin had recently taken from the principality. With Saladin tied up in the north, the siege of Acre may not have taken as long. It is hard to say if Jerusalem would have been retaken.
 

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?So WI Fredrick doesn't drown? Maybe he was riding a horse across the river. :):)
The story Ive heard is that when he saw water he immidatly jumped into it - after all, he had marche shis army through quite hot and dry lands. Doing that in armour is not an all too bright idea, though...

nyway,s if Barbarossa not only survives but leads his army into the holy Land, the Third Crusade would most likely have been successful, as the Crusaders numbers would have been doubled. And with the Kingdom of Jerusalem reestablished, circumstances surrounding any following crusade would of course have been greatly altered... maybe no Sack of Constantinople as a butetrfly effect...
 
Crusade

The march from northern Syria to Acre would have been difficult. Not all of the territory between was still in crusader hands.
 
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