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- 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.
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Abt 1150 - 1190 (~ 40 years)