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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades |
 | | While Capetians and Plantagenets, oblivious of the Holy War, were settling at home their territorial disputes, Emperor Henry VI, son of Barbarossa, took in hand the supreme direction of Christian politics in the East. |
 | | Crowned King of the Two Sicilies, 25 December, 1194, he took the cross at Bari, 31 May, 1195, and made ready an expedition which, he thought, would recover Jerusalem and wrest Constantinople from the usurper Alexius III. |
 | | Eager to exercise his imperial authority he made Amaury de Lusignan King of Cyprus and Leo II King of Armenia. |
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