XXVI. THE FOURTH CRUSADE: DISASTER IN THE EAST
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Prince Alexis Angelus
Emperor Isaac II
Alerumus of Clari
April 13, 1304
Baldwin, Count of Flanders
Boniface, Marquis of Monteferrat
Romania, Peloponnesus, Crete, Thrace, Gallipoli at Hellespont
San Marco, Venice
Shroud of Turin (1204 – 1357: mysterious period)
“Having neither right nor power over the Greeks you seem to have imprudently deviated from the purity of your vow, when you marched not against the Saracens, but against the Christians, meaning not to conquer Jerusalem, but to take Constantinople, preferring earthly riches to heavenly riches.”
- Innocent III to Boniface of Monteferrat
Abbot Martin of Pairis, Colmar
Gunter: Historia Constantinopolitana
“a not inconsiderable piece of Saint John, forerunner of the Lord”
1218 Hungarian Crusade by Andrew
1218-21 un-coordinated FIFTH CRUSADE
1228-29 Frederick II
1239 Theobald of Navarre
1246-54 Saint Louis IX: SIXTH CRUSADE
1270-72 Edward of England
1270 Saint Louis IX to Tunis
John of Brienne
“Kingdom of Jerusalem” from Amaury II to Amaury III to Mary
John & Mary wed 1210
Baby Yolande born 1212
1215 Fourth Lateran Council: Ad Liberandum
Cardinal Cencio Savelli: Honorius III
1225 Yolande (13 years old) marries Frederick II
1228 Sultan Kamil compromises on the Holy Land
Back to the Fifth Crusade …Damietta near Cairo