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    The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture...
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    The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period. The best...
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  • numbering after the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204). The Crusade of Emperor Frederick II (1227–1229) is sometimes regarded as part of the Fifth Crusade (1217–1221)...
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    The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt led by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick...
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    Saladin. After the failure of the Fourth Crusade, Innocent III again called for a crusade, and began organizing Crusading armies led by Andrew II of Hungary...
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  • The IVth Crusade is the fourth studio album by British death metal band Bolt Thrower. It was recorded at Sawmill Studios in August 1992 and produced by...
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    following the sack of Constantinople by Latin armies at the end of the Fourth Crusade; its former territories were then divided into competing Greek and Latin...
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    The People's Crusade was the beginning phase of the First Crusade whose objective was to retake the Holy Land, and Jerusalem in particular, from Islamic...
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    partitioning of the Byzantine Empire when in 1204, soldiers of the Fourth Crusade overthrew the last Angeloi Emperor, Alexios V Doukas. When Manuel I...
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    The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church...
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    AD to 1204, when it was converted to a Catholic church following the Fourth Crusade. It was reclaimed in 1261 and remained Eastern Orthodox until the Ottoman...
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    Alexios IV Angelos (category Christians of the Fourth Crusade)
    Philip's cousin, who had been chosen to lead the Fourth Crusade, but had temporarily left the Crusade during the siege of Zara in 1202 to visit Philip...
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    1202 (section Fourth Crusade)
    Crusading enthusiasm, reaches some 21,000 men – the largest contingent of the Fourth Crusade. He proclaims the debts will be wiped, if the Crusaders take...
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    Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire....
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    during the 12th century, but was delivered a mortal blow during the Fourth Crusade, when Constantinople was sacked and the Empire dissolved and divided...
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    Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople...
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    frequent crusades within Christendom, such as the Albigensian Crusade, achieved their goal of maintaining doctrinal unity. The Fourth Crusade was initiated...
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    from the year 1850 In the 1204 sacking of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, Boukoleon was taken by Boniface of Montferrat who: "rode all along...
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  • This is a list of the principal leaders of the Crusades, classified by Crusade. Amalric I of Jerusalem Philip of Milly Hugh of Ibelin Miles of Plancy...
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    for nearly nine hundred years. In 1204, however, the armies of the Fourth Crusade took and devastated the city, and for several decades, its inhabitants...
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    important to many contemporary sources on the Fourth Crusade.: 90, n.89  In addition to the crusaders' report to Pope Innocent III,: 103  the incident...
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    The Albigensian Crusade (French: Croisade des albigeois) or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent...
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  • the cross at Bruges (modern Belgium), and agree to take part in the Fourth Crusade called by Pope Innocent III (see 1199). May 22 – The Kings John of England...
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    The Seventh Crusade (1248–1254) was the first of the two Crusades led by Louis IX of France. Also known as the Crusade of Louis IX to the Holy Land, it...
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    1203 (section Fourth Crusade)
    son Alexios Angelos. This marks the main outcome of the Fourth Crusade. July 11 – The Crusaders take positions opposite the Palace of Blachernae on the...
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    "rule of the Venetians"), was the period in Greek history after the Fourth Crusade (1204), when a number of primarily French and Italian states were established...
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    the Fourth Crusade until the restoration of the Empire under the Palaeologan dynasty in 1261. Upon the sack of the Byzantine capital by the Crusaders, Alexios...
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  • history of the Latin Empire—the crusader state that developed on the ruins of the Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade in the 13th century. 1054 Spring...
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    The crusading movement encompasses the framework of ideologies and institutions that described, regulated, and promoted the Crusades. The crusades were...
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    Frankish/Latin Greece (including the Venetian possessions) lasted from the Fourth Crusade in 1204 AD to 1797, the year of the disestablishment of the Venetian...
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