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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Battles of the Fourth Crusade, Christians of the Fourth Crusade, Frankish and Latin Greece, Pope Innocent III, Alexios V Doukas, Alexios III Angelos, Isaac II Angelos, Baldwin I of Constantinople, Enrico Dandolo, Henry of Flanders, Marco I Sanudo, Kaloyan of Bulgaria, Geoffrey I of Villehardouin, Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat, Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Margaret of Hungary, War of the Euboeote Succession, Siege of Rhodes, Emeric, King of Hungary, William of Champlitte, Siege of Constantinople, Frankokratia, Alexios IV Angelos, Siege of Zara, Catalan Company, Ysabella, Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera, Bartolomeo Minio, Navarrese Company, Battle of Halmyros, Tocco family, Conon de Bethune, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Elias Cairel, Ravano dalle Carceri, Stato da Mar, Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon, Robert de Clari, Otto de la Roche, Vidame de Chartres, Peter of Vaux de Cernay, Lordship of Salona, Duchy of Neopatria, Guy Pallavicini, Theobald III, Count of Champagne, Peter of Capua, Louis I, Count of Blois, Eudokia Angelina, Oberto II of Biandrate, Hugues IV de Berze, Gaucelm Faidit, Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae, William I de la Roche, Nikolaos Kanabos, Renier of Trit, Doxapatres Boutsaras, Fulk of Neuilly, Hugh of Champlitte, Marco Venieri, Zorzi. Excerpt: The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) was originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and conquered the Christian (Eastern Orthodox) city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire). This is seen as one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. The crusaders established the Latin Empire (1204-1261) and other "Latin" states in the Byzantine lands they co...
