Fourth Crusade

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The Fourth Crusade was a 13th-century military expedition that infamously diverted from its original goal of reclaiming the Holy Land to instead sack the Christian city of Constantinople in 1204.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crusade
military expedition
religious war
belligerent Byzantine Empire
Crusader army
Republic of Venice
cause Byzantine dynastic disputes
Venetian financial and political interests
call to crusade by Pope Innocent III
desire to recover Jerusalem
commandedBy Boniface I of Montferrat
surface form: Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat
conflictType Byzantine–Latin conflicts
surface form: Latin–Byzantine conflict

religious conflict
date 1202–1204
endTime 1204
keyFigure Byzantine Emperor Alexios III Angelos
surface form: Alexios III Angelos

Alexios IV Angelos
Baldwin of Flanders
Boniface I of Montferrat
surface form: Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat

Enrico Dandolo
Pope Innocent III
location Byzantine Empire
Constantinople (probable)
surface form: Constantinople

Eastern Mediterranean
notableConsequence dispersal of Byzantine art and relics to Western Europe
intensification of Latin–Greek animosity
plunder and destruction of Constantinople
notableEvent Sack of Constantinople in 1204
surface form: Sack of Constantinople (1204)

Siege of Zara
opposedBy Byzantine loyalists
Eastern Orthodox clergy
organizedBy Pope Innocent III
originalObjective attack on Muslim-controlled Holy Land
reconquest of Jerusalem
outcome creation of the Latin Empire of Constantinople
long-term decline of Byzantine power
partition of Byzantine territories among crusaders and Venice
partOf Crusades
pointInTime 13th century
religion Roman Catholicism
result Sack of Constantinople in 1204
surface form: Sack of Constantinople

capture of Constantinople by crusaders
deepened schism between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches
establishment of the Latin Empire
weakening of the Byzantine Empire
startTime 1202
supportedBy Republic of Venice
year 1204

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Angelid dynasty deposedBy Fourth Crusade
this entity surface form: Fourth Crusaders
Siege of Zara conflictOf Fourth Crusade
Siege of Zara partOf Fourth Crusade