Did the Fourth Crusade destroy the Byzantine Empire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCTzkmbXsio
1 week ago | 9
People who voted for Pope Innocent should really read up on how he reacted towards the "crusade"
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Innocence III excommunicated the crusaders after Zara, so he shouldn't even be on that list.
1 week ago | 26
Venetians take the full blame for this one pope had a heart attack when he heard
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Alexis Angelus actively lobbied to get the crusaders over there to put him rightfully on the throne. If not hour him Enrico Dondaldo would not have supported the effort because it would have been for nought.
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Alexios Angelos gave the crusaders the motive and opportunity to go to Constantinople instead of just abandoning the enterprise after the Sack of Zara. It was his idea to get the crusaders involved in Byzantine dynastic politics, when Egypt was their original target.
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Im anti-Byzantine romanticism, but Dandolo was the nominal funder of the crusade. The decision to sail to Constantinople lay squarely upon him and him alone.
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Alexius IV definitely did his fair bit to get the Crusade to Constantinople, but if he’d had his way that’s definitely not where they’d have ultimately ended up. Boniface was complicit in a lot, but largely lacked the power to choose the crusade’s direction, and Innocent had no idea what was happening until it had happened. Dandolo probably didn’t foresee the ultimate outcome at the start, but he seems to have had the greatest amount of control and to have been the main force behind looting Christian cities, so he gets the most blame from me easily.
1 week ago | 8
I chose Alexius. He should have upheld his end of the agreement and Constantinople wouldn’t have been sacked
1 week ago | 26
Let’s be honest, Alexios IV had no idea something like this would happen and tried to fix it as best as he could, but his uncle ran off with all the money before they got there
1 week ago | 5
Well, I mean, despite all the previous attrition, it only actually happened because Alexios asked them for help and didn't keep his word.
1 week ago | 3
It was Alexios who brought them to constantinople it was the Dodge of Venice who wanted to replace him and eventually put Baudouin on the Latin Empire throne.
1 week ago | 3
I only know a little bit about what went down but I know the Venetians were involved so I’m sure they were the ones responsible
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Real Crusades History
Which of these historical figures was most responsible for the Fourth Crusade ultimately ending up at Constantinople?
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