George Spengler

Abt 1150 - 1190  (40 years)

• Name	George Spengler
  Birth	Abt 1150	Wurzberg, Barvaria, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Death	1190	Antakya, Hatay, Turkey
  Person ID	I822	Horton
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2016

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. George Spengler,   b. Windsbach, Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany d. 1230, Windsbach, Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany  [Father: Natural]
  Family ID	F264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2016

  
  

• Notes

  George Spengler was the Cupbearer to the Prince-Bishop of the ecclesiastical principality of Wurzburg, Godfrey of Piesenburg, who was also Chancellor to the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This Bishop and his Cupbearer accompanied the Emperor ooooon h his crusade to the Holy Land. The Emperor was drowned 1190 in the Syrian river, Calycadnus while trying to urge his horse across the stream. His camp was then immediately removed to Antioch, where he was provisionally buried. The Bishop and hi his Cupbearer died soon afterwards. They were carried off by that dreadful scourage the plllgue, which afficted the crusaders, and were buried in the Church of ST. Peter at Antioch. Of those whom the Emperor and brought across the Bosphorus, not a tenth, it is said reach Antioch.