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What Was the Total Death Toll of the Sixth Crusade?

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The Sixth Crusade is remembered as a diplomatic success, Jerusalem recovered by treaty rather than conquest, and the scholarship reflects that emphasis: the campaign's limited fighting is described in narrative terms with no casualty figures attached, let alone a combined total.

What would resolve this A military historian's accounting of the skirmishes and garrison actions that did occur during Frederick II's campaign, however small the resulting figure.
OpenCrusading history, medieval military history.Christopher Tyerman, God's War: A New History of the Crusades
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God's War: A New History of the Crusades
Christopher Tyerman, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006
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