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After Jerusalem had been recaptured by the armies of Islam under Saladin. Among the responders to Gregory's call were three of Europe's greatest kings: the Western emperor, Frederick Barbarossa; Philip Augustus, king of France; and Richard I, the Lion-hearted, king of England. Frederick, nearly seventy, set out overland with an army of one hundred thousand, of which fifty thousand were on horseback. He drowned before reaching Jerusalem, in the Kalycadnus river near Cilicia. His son, Frederick of Swabia, led a demoralized, and much smaller, remnant of the army on to Acre (Ptolemais), which was already under siege by Guy of Lusignan.
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