6: Fourth Crusade Flashcards
The fourth crusade was preached by Innocent III in…
August 1198
A tax on churches to fund the crusade was begun in…
December 1198
Count Thibaut of Champagne preached the crusade in Ecry where he was elected leader in…
1199
Count Thibaut died and Boniface of Montferrat was elected leader in…
1201
Byzantine emperor Alexius III fled Constantinople to ask the Europeans for help in…
1201
The crusaders made a deal for safe passage through Venice with…
Doge Enrico Dandolo
The crusaders arrived in Venice in November 1202 but could not use Dandolo’s ships because…
They did not have the 85,000 marks for payment
Dandolo made a deal with the crusaders that they could use his ships if they…
Captured cities for Venice
The crusaders captured Zara for the Venetians in November 1202 which led to…
Pope Innocent III excommunicating Venice and all the crusaders
If the crusaders captured Constantinople, Alexius III promised them…
200,000 marks and the reunification of the Byzantine church with Rome
The crusaders launched their first attack on Constantinople on the…
6th April 1203
Constantinople fell to the crusaders on the…
17th July 1203
The crusaders attacked Constantinople again on the…
11th April 1204. Because Alexius III could not pay them and had fled.
On the 12th April 1204 the crusaders captured Constantinople and established…
The Latin Empire of Byzantine after a three day rape and pillaging spree
Geoffrey of Villehardouin wrote an account of the fourth crusade called…
De La Conquête de Constantinople
