The widow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamira" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stamira">Stamira</a> sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancona" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ancona">Ancona</a> by the forces of Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Barbarossa" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Frederick Barbarossa">Frederick Barbarossa</a>.<sup about="#mwt23" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_1#cite_note-2" id="mwHg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHw">[2]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt24" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_1#cite_note-3" id="mwIA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIQ">[3]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_1#cite_note-4" id="mwIg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIw">[4]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt27" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_1#cite_note-5" id="mwJA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJQ">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2">Giuseppe Cannonieri, <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lassediodiancon00canngoog" id="mwBy4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBy8">L'assedio di Ancona dell'anno 1174</i></a>, Tipografia Niccolai 1848, Firenze</span>