Death
After a long illness, Frederick died in Nablus on October 30, 1174, and was buried in the Templum Domini in Jerusalem. William was appointed archbishop and was consecrated on June 8 of the next year. William describes Frederick as "an extremely tall man. He possessed little education but was inordinately devoted to the art of war."
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“There is no sorrow more grievous than the death of one’s spirit.”
—Chinese proverb.
Zhaungzi.
“Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
Their death a hideous storm of terror.”
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If he leaves it to nature to carry out the sentence.
I shall will to the common stock of air my breath
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