Although Frederick II was now free to crush the Lombards without a pope to oppose him, he soon diverted much of his cavalry and infantry north of the Alps where the Tartars had begun to seriously threaten his lands.
Obwohl Friederich II. jetzt frei war, die Lombarden ohne päpstlichen Widerstand Papst zu zermürben, schickte er bald einen großen Teil seiner Kavallerie und Infanterie nördlich der Alpen, wo die Tartaren begonnen hatten, sein Land ernsthaft zu bedrohen.