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Standard accounts record Saladin’s death in Damascus in March 1193 after illness

Chronicle-based standard accounts record that Saladin died in Damascus on 4 March 1193 after a short illness, with later writers moralising his empty treasury. In the causal graph this event weakens Infectious-Disease Transmission, a driver that weakens Life expectancy at birth — an improving welfare path.

Standard accounts record Saladin’s death in Damascus in March 1193 after illness

Sources: [1][2]

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Chronicle-based standard accounts record that Saladin died in Damascus on 4 March 1193 after a short illness, with later writers moralising his empty treasury. The dated public carrier is that narration. This is not a modern diagnosis.

Context

A royal death without a public succession rule is already on the partition row.

Saladin is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Saladin

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Sultan and court, later chroniclers, restorers, or nationalist users. Complex, not a sole autograph of 1187.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — SaladinEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanley Lane-Poole, Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1898 scan)Internet Archive / 1898 monograph · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSaladin
  2. contributed toFactStandard accounts record Saladin’s death in Damascus in March 1193 after illness
  3. weakensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
  4. weakensIndicatorLife expectancy at birth

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Factrail. (2026). Standard accounts record Saladin’s death in Damascus in March 1193 after illness. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-health-death-1193-as-chronicle

https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-health-death-1193-as-chronicle

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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