Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia

Frederick V ( born February 1167 Modigliana; † January 20, 1191 at Acre ) was a Duke of Swabia.

He was the third son of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and his second wife, Beatrice of Burgundy.

Frederick V. actual name was Konrad. 1169 was Friedrich, Duke of Swabia and the eldest son of the emperor, died. This had never been in good health, which historians such as Odilo Engels was elected to the designated successor of the emperor regarded as reason that not he, but Heinrich. Shortly after, Konrad was in Friedrich ( the Hohenstaufen Leitnamen ) renamed and appointed Duke of Swabia 1170. Because of his elder brother, the short-term (1167-1169), but never was self- Duke of Swabia, Konrad is after his name change in modern literature also sometimes referred to as Friedrich VI. referred to. Consistent, however, is his brother in the census omitting, Friedrich V.

On the courtyard party to Mainz on May 20, 1184 ( Pentecost Sunday ) Frederick V received together with his brother Henry VI. the accolade.

On March 27, 1188, Frederick V. had to commit to accompany his father on the next crusade. On May 11, 1189 he set out with the crusader army of Regensburg. In Hungary, he became engaged in 1189 with Constance of Hungary. After the death of Frederick I Barbarossa on June 10, 1190 in the river Saleph in Lesser Armenia Frederick V was given the leadership of the German Crusader army.

Although a large part of the Crusaders left the army and sailed from Antioch towards home, Frederick V wanted to go with his remaining army to Jerusalem. In Tripoli fell ill a large part of his companions from malaria, which is why Frederick V with only a few knights start in October 1190 came even before the besieged city of Acre, where he died of his malaria illness on January 20, 1191 and was buried. Because the city was still occupied by Saladin's troops, the remaining Crusaders could not enter the city and left after the death of Frederick V, the Holy Land.