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

Date: 1898

## The fact

Chronicle-based standard accounts record that [Saladin](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Saladin (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saladin; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Do not write a germ. Do not write a miracle.

Do not write a germ. Do not write a miracle.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is infectious-disease-transmission. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Saladin: https://factrail.ai/people/saladin

## Drivers

- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saladin
- https://archive.org/details/saladinandfallk00lanegoog

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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