The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople by Jonathan Phillips Read Free Book Online

Alexius
     
    negotiations with Dandolo
     
    and Nicholas Kannavos
     
    reorganises imperial administration
     
    seizes throne
     
    Almeria
     
    Amalric, King of Jerusalem
     
    Andrew of Dureboise
     
    Andronicus Comnenus, Emperor
     
    Andros
     
    anti-Semitism
     
    Antioch, siege of, 1097—8
     
    Arnold the Old
     
    Arsuf, Battle of, 1191
     
    Ascalon
     

 
    Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem
     
    Baldwin II, Emperor
     
    Baldwin IV King of Jerusalem
     
    Baldwin of Flanders, Count
     
    on achievement
     
    and Adrianople
     
    on Alexius
     
    appeal to keep crusaders together
     
    arrival in Venice
     
    and the assaults of 1204
     
    and the Byzantine counter-attack
     
    captured
     
    in Constantinople
     
    on Corfu
     
    coronation of
     
    crusading heritage
     
    on Dandolo
     
    election as emperor
     
    as emperor
     
    exploits Byzantine withdrawal
     
    financial situation as emperor
     
    at first siege
     
    impostor appears
     
    imprisonment and death of
     
    justification for actions
     
    and ‘The March Pact’
     
    on the murder of Alexius
     
    and Murtzuphlus
     
    and the offer from Prince Alexius
     
    popularity of
     
    relationship with his wife
     
    rift with Boniface
     
    on the sack of Constantinople
     
    takes over imperial tent
     
    takes the cross
     
    threats facing
     
    on volume of spoils
     
    wife dies
     
    at Zara
     
    Bar-le-Duc, count of
     
    Basle
     
    Beha ad-Din
     
    Benjamin of Tudela
     
    Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot
     
    on treatment of Jews
     
    Berthold of Katzenellenbogen
     
    Blanche of Champagne
     
    Bohemond, Prince of Antioch
     
    Boniface, marquis of Montferrat
     
    appeal to keep crusaders together
     
    arrival in Venice
     
    audience with the pope
     
    avoids participating in the siege of Zara
     
    background
     
    and Baldwin’s election
     
    as candidate for emperor
     
    character
     
    death of
     
    enters the Bucoleon palace
     
    at first siege
     
    granted kingdom of Thessalonica
     
    and ‘The March Pact’
     
    marries Isaac’s widow
     
    meetings with Alexius
     
    motivation for attacking Constantinople
     
    and the offer from Prince Alexius
     
    offered command
     
    parades Prince Alexius
     
    preparations
     
    restores cash flow
     
    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