4TH XDE 2 Flashcards
1171
Venetians maltreated in Constantinople; rumoured to be how Dandalo was blinded
1193
Saladin dies; Near East fragments
1195
Emperor Isaac Angelos deposed, blinded and imprisoned by his brother, made Emperor Alexios III
1198, 8 January
Pope Innocent III is elected
1199, November
A crusade is preached against Markward of Anweiler in southern Italy
1199, November
Fourth Crusade is preached at a tournament at Ecry-sur-Aisne, Champagne; Count Thibaut of Champagne and Count Louis of Blois take the cross
1200, spring
Fourth Crusade leadership meets at Soissons; decision made to employ a Venetian fleet to sail to the Levant
1201
Prince Alexios escapes imprisonment and travels to Western Europe to seek support
1201, March
Northern Envoys reach Venice and begin negotiations of the terms for the transportation of the crusade by sea
1201, April
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
1201, 24 May
Thibaud of Champagne dies; large blow as very charismatic for recruitment; Boniface, marquis of Montferrat is approached to replace him
1202, Spring – August
Crusaders start to gather in Venice
1202, August
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
1202, September
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
1202, October
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
1202, 13 November
Siege of Zara begins
1202, 24 November
Zara surrenders to the Fourth Crusaders; Innocent III excommunicates the crusaders
1203, January
Negotiations between representative of Prince Alexios of Byzantium and the crusaders at Zara; Byzantines offer; submission of the Greek Orthodox Church; 200,000 silver marks; 10,000 men for Crusade; permanent garrison of 500 knights for Jerusalem; much debate however decided to attack Constantinople; by this point Innocent has released the contrite French but not the unrepentant Venetian and demands they “neither violate nor invade the lands of Christians, unless … [they have a] just or necessary cause”
1203, April
Simon de Montfort leaves the main crusade and goes to the Holy Land