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  2. Fourth Crusade - Wikipedia

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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 the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem, by first defeating the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate.

  3. Sack of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    The sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusaders sacked and destroyed most of Constantinople , the capital of the Byzantine Empire . After the capture of the city, the Latin Empire (known to the Byzantines as the Frankokratia , or the Latin occupation [ 4 ] ) was established and ...

  4. Siege of Constantinople (1203) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Constantinople in 1203 was a crucial episode of the Fourth Crusade, marking the beginning of a series of events that would ultimately lead to the fall of the Byzantine capital. The crusaders, diverted from their original mission to reclaim Jerusalem , found themselves in Constantinople, in support of the deposed emperor Isaac II ...

  5. Siege of Zara - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Zara or siege of Zadar (Croatian: opsada Zadra; Hungarian: Zára ostroma; 10–24 November 1202) was the first major action of the Fourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders.

  6. List of principal leaders of the Crusades - Wikipedia

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    5 Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) 6 Fifth Crusade (1217–1221) 7 ... This is a list of the principal leaders of the Crusades, classified by Crusade. Crusader invasions ...

  7. List of Crusades - Wikipedia

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    Fourth Crusade. The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was also known as the Unholy Crusade. A major component of the crusade was against the Byzantine empire. Thomas Fuller referred to it as Voyage 7 of the Holy Warre. Charles du Cange, wrote the first serious study of the Fourth Crusade in his Histoire de l'empire de Constantinople sous les ...

  8. Hugh IV, Count of Saint-Pol - Wikipedia

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    In 1200 he enlisted in the Fourth Crusade, where his prior service and rank made him among the leading non-Venetian nobles: he came fourth after Boniface of Montferrat, Baldwin of Flanders, and Louis of Blois. He participated in the conquest of Constantinople on April 12, 1204. [1]

  9. De la Conquête de Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Miniature depicting the Crusader attack on Constantinople from an early 14th-century edition of Villehardouin's work. De la Conquête de Constantinople (On the Conquest of Constantinople) is the oldest surviving example of French historical prose and one of the most important sources for the Fourth Crusade.