The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (66 page)

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Authors: Jonathan Phillips

Tags: #Religion, #History

 
rift with Baldwin
 
routs Murtzuphlus’ attack
 
suppresses bull of anathema
 
and the surrender of Constantinople
 
takes the cross
 
tours provinces
 
visits abbey of Citeaux
 
visits German Empire
 
Bulgaria
 
Bush, George W.
 
Byzantine army
 
counter-attack
 
defend walls
 
first engagement
 
raid at Tower of Galata
 
strength
 
withdraw from amphibious landing
 
Byzantine Empire
 
military strength
 
naval forces
 
relations with the West
 
situation, late twelfth century
 
split with Catholic Church
 
view of crusaders
 
 
castles, decoration of halls
 
Celestine III, Pope
 
Chalcedon, palace of
 
charters
 
chivalry
 
Chrétien de Troyes
 
Church, the: see also Innocent III, Pope
 
importance of
 
schism with Greek Orthodox Church
 
views on tournaments
 
Cistercian order
 
Citeaux, abbey of
 
Clarendon Palace
 
Cluny, abbey of
 
coinage
 
Compiègne, planning meeting at
 
Conon of Béthune
 
demands Alexius fulfils obligations
 
on departure
 
Conrad III, King of Germany
 
Conrad, marquis of Montferrat
 
Conrad, bishop of Halberstadt
 
on Corfu
 
imperial elector
 
returns home
 
seizes relics
 
Constantine Ducas
 
Constantine Lascaris
 
Constantinople
 
anti-crusader feeling
 
anti-western attitudes
 
assaults of 1204
 
the Blachernae palace
 
the Bucoleon palace
 
churches
 
churches looted
 
civic unrest
 
condition on Baldwin’s election
 
crusaders break into, 1204
 
crusaders enter, 1203
 
defences
 
fire of 1204
 
fire of August 1203
 
first engagement at
 
first siege of, 1203
 
diplomatic negotiations
 
crusader organisation
 
preparations
 
amphibious assault
 
assault on the Tower of Galata
 
crusader fleet breaks into the Golden Horn
 
crusaders cross the Golden Horn
 
crusaders outside city walls
 
crusaders fortify camp
 
assault
 
fires set
 
Byzantine counter-attack
 
Byzantine withdrawal
 
Isaac restored to the throne
 
fora
(public squares)
 
the Golden Gate
 
the Great Palace
 
Greeks reclaim
 
the Hagia Sophia
 
the Hippodrome
 
living conditions
 
massacre
 
merchant community attacked, 1182
 
morale, 1204
 
the
Mouchroutas
 
and Murtzuphlus
 
Pantepoptes, monastery of the
 
political degeneration
 
population
 
preparations for defence, 1204
 
provision for in ‘The March Pact’
 
relations with crusaders break down
 
relations with the West
 
relics
 
rival emperor emerges
 
sacked
 
surrender of
 
Venetian involvement in
 
walls
 
water supply
 
Constantine, Emperor
 
Corfu
 
courtly love
 
Crete
 
Crusader States
 
crusaders
 
achievement
 
Alexius pays
 
alternative travel arrangements
 
arrival at Constantinople
 
arrival at Zara
 
assault Constantinople, 1204
 
atrocities
 
attacking Christian lands
 
behaviour
 
breakdown of relations with Byzantines
 
break into Constantinople
 
Burgundian contingent
 
call for additional recruits
 
capabilities
 
chevauchée
 
clergy justify assaults of 1204
 
at Constantinople
 
contractual obligations
 
on Corfu
 
costs
 
decision to attack Zara
 
demand Alexius fulfils obligations
 
departure from Venice
 
departure from Zara
 
desertions
 
dissension over the offer from Alexius
 
division of spoils
 
effect of decision to assist Alexius
 
election of Latin emperor
 
enter Constantinople
 
envoys visit Isaac
 
families
 
fire ship attack on fleet
 
first engagement at Constantinople
 
Flemish contingent
 
foraging party attacked
 
fortify camp
 
fragmentation at Zara
 
funding
 
German contingent
 
Greek view of
 
guilt
 
informed of Isaac’s restoration
 
justification for actions
 
leaders accept Alexius’s offer
 
leaders’ letter to the West
 
leadership
 
leadership crisis
 
‘The March Pact’
 
morale
 
motivation
 
Murtzuphlus attack on
 
numbers
 
and the offer from Alexius
 
organisation at first siege
 
plans
 
preparations
 
preparations for assault, 1204
 
psychological effects on
 
quality of cavalry
 
released from vows
 
renown
 
request help from pope
 
response to Dandolo’s demands
 
return home
 
returning from Holy Land
 
rewards
 
sack Constantinople
 
seek absolution for the siege of Zara
 
sexual violence
 
shortfall in arrivals at Venice
 
situation, 1204
 
and the surrender of Constantinople
 
terms offered to Murtzuphlus
 
training
 
at Venice
 
view of Greeks
 
voyage to Constantinople
 
voyage to Zara
 
at Zara
 
crusades
 
First (1095—9)
 
Second (1145—9)
 
Third (1189—92)
 
Seventh (1248—54)
 
as act of absolution
 
Albigensian
 
attacking Christian lands
 
costs
 
in defence of Latin Empire
 
duration of
 
expansion of
 
experience of combat
 
forces
 
German
 
mortality rates
 
numbering system
 
Peoples’
 
perception of
 
Cumans, the
 
Cyprus
 
 
Dandolo, Doge Enrico
 
and Adrianople
 
announces terms of treaty
 
appeal to Alexius to fulfil obligations
 
arranges acceptance of Treaty
 
and the attack on Egypt.
 
Baldwin’s commendation
 
blindness
 
and the Byzantine counter attack
 
character
 
at Constantinople
 
crusader envoys’ request for assistance
 
death of
 
demands payment
 
desire to go on crusade

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