This man lost one battle after failing to beseige a newly built "straw city" called Alessandria.
This man lost one battle after failing to beseige a newly built "straw city" called Alessandria. A monument in the Kyffhäuser hills marks the mythical sleeping place of this ruler, whose support of antipope Victor IV got him excommunicated. A group of four jurists from the school at Bologna helped this ruler write new taxes as part of the (*) Roncaglia decrees. This ruler defeated and then hanged Arnold of Brescia. This ruler gave the duchies of Saxony and Bavaria to Henry the Lion before losing at Legnano and signing a peace treaty with the Lombard League, which opposed his incursions into Italy. On his way east, this man drowned in the Saleph River in 1190. For 10 points, name this Holy Roman Emperor who died en route to the Third Crusade.
This man lost one battle after failing to beseige a newly built "straw city" called Alessandria.
Frederick Barbarossa [or Frederick I; or Kaiser Rotbart; or Frederick III of Swabia; do not prompt on just \"Frederick III\"; prompt on \"Barbarossa\"]