September 10 – Henry I (or Henry II), king of Jerusalem, dies from falling out a first-floor window at his palace in Acre. His widow, Isabella I , becomes regent while the kingdom is thrown into consternation.

Died in 1197. Sep 10 Henri of Champagne, French Crusader, Count of Champagne and King of Jerusalem, falls out a window in Acre to his death at 31; Sep 22 Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies; Sep 28 Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, dies in Messina, Sicily

In 1197, when Henry was in southern Italy preparing a crusade, a rebellion against his rule broke out in the Sicilian kingdom, which was put down with savage cruelty. In the same year Henry died of malaria at Messina.

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 ...

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