4TH XDE 1.1

Question 1

Venetians maltreated in Constantinople; rumoured to be how Dandalo was blinded

Answer 1

1171

Question 2

Saladin dies; Near East fragments

Answer 2

1193

Question 3

Emperor Isaac Angelos deposed, blinded and imprisoned by his brother, made Emperor Alexios III

Answer 3

1195

Question 4

Pope Innocent III is elected

Answer 4

1198, 8 January

Question 5

Fourth Crusade is preached at a tournament at Ecry-sur-Aisne, Champagne; Count Thibaut of Champagne and Count Louis of Blois take the cross

Answer 5

1199, November

Question 6

Fourth Crusade leadership meets at Soissons; decision made to employ a Venetian fleet to sail to the Levant

Answer 6

1200, spring

Question 7

Prince Alexios escapes imprisonment and travels to Western Europe to seek support

Answer 7

1201

Question 8

Northern Envoys reach Venice and begin negotiations of the terms for the transportation of the crusade by sea

Answer 8

1201, March

Question 9

The Treaty of Venice agreed; Venetians have 50 battle galleys, vermilion flagship of the doge, 60-70 large sailing ships carrying up to 600 passengers and 100 crew, all requiring c.30,000 to man- c.1/2 of male population in Venice; decided that 4,500 horses are to be taking, necessitating the construction of dozens of galleys specially fitted with slings and low-level doors; 85,000 silver marks; French promise 35,000; secret agreement to go to Venice first

Answer 9

1201, April

Question 10

Thibaud of Champagne dies; large blow as very charismatic for recruitment; Boniface, marquis of Montferrat is approached to replace him

Answer 10

1201, 24 May

Question 11

Crusaders start to gather in Venice

Answer 11

1202, Spring – August

Question 12

Only 12,000 of 35,000 men have arrived in Venice; leadership has a whip round but only makes 51,000 silver marks of the 85,000 owed- 34,000 short

Answer 12

1202, August

Question 13

By now too late to set sail for Egypt; Dandalo proposes to go to Zara, formerly subject to the Venetians but now subjects of King Bela of Hungary, who had taken the cross- bit of an issue; Simon de Montfort opposes

Answer 13

1202, September

Question 14

Fourth Crusade sets out from Venice for Zara; Innocent III orders the papal legate, Peter Capuano, to forbid the assault on Zara on threat of excommunication, Capuano ignores him

Answer 14

1202, October

Question 15

Siege of Zara begins

Answer 15

1202, 13 November