Battle of Tusculum

The Battle of Tusculum (also known as the Battle of Monte Porzio or Battle of Frascati ) was a military clash as part of the Italian policy of the Roman-German Emperor Frederick I between imperial troops and troops of the Commune of Rome on May 29, 1167. The two Archbishops Christian von Mainz and Rainald von Dassel , who were fighting for the emperor, succeeded in decisively defeating the numerically superior urban Roman contingent, including their allies. The enemy troops reportedly suffered heavy losses, while the imperial troops took numerous prisoners. The emperor learned of the victory of the two archbishops while he was besieging the city of Ancona .

Despite this military success, the emperor's 4th Italian campaign ended in disaster when the imperial army was decimated shortly afterwards by an outbreak of epidemics. Among the dead was the mentioned Rainald von Dassel, one of the emperor's closest advisers. The emperor soon found himself in distress when the troops of the hostile Italian communes united, so that Frederick had to flee Italy.

literature

• Johann Friedrich Böhmer , Cornelius Will (ed.): Regesta archiepiscoporum Maguntinensium. Regesta on the history of the Archbishops of Mainz from Boniface to Heinrich II. Volume 2. Innsbruck 1886, No. 37 ( RIplus Regg. EB Mainz 2, No. 128 , in: Regesta Imperii Online ).
• Ferdinand Opll : The regests of the empire under Friedrich I. 1152 (1122) -1190. 2. Delivery. Böhlau, Köln / Wien 1991, No. 1664 ( RI IV, 2.2, No. 1664 , in: Regesta Imperii Online ).
• Mareike Pohl: Fleeing-fighting-capitulating. Rational action in the age of Friedrich Barbarossa. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, p. 52ff.