Konrad was born in 1167 in Mutilianum, now Modigliana[1] as the third son of Friedrich Barbarossa and Beatrix von Burgund. After the death of his older brother Friedrich V he was renamed and appears in the literature as Friedrich VI. In contemporary records he is named either Konrad[2][3][4][5][6] or Friedrich.[7][8] He participated in the third crusade and died 20 Jan 1191 during the siege of Acre from disease.[9][10][11][12]
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↑ Marco Tabarrini, Cronache dei secoli 13. e 14: Annales Ptolemaei Lucensis, Sanzanome iudicis gesta Florentinorum, Diario di ser Giovanni di Lemmo da Comugnori, Diario d'anonimo fiorentino, Chronicon Tolosani canonici faventini, Chronicon Tolosani Cap. LVII, Firenze 1876, p. 637
↑ Bahâ-ad-Dîn Ibn Shaddâd, موت نجل ملك الألمان, Mort du fils du roi des Allemands in: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens orientaux. Tome 3 / publ. par les soins de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Paris 1884, p. 208
↑ Matthæi Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora, vol. 2, De morte multorum apud Achon, London 1874, p. 370
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