Weaknesses of Pope Innocent III's Plans for the Fourth Crusade
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- Weaknesses of Pope Innocent's Plans
- Failed to secure secular leadership
- Peter of Capuano alienated prospective Crusade leaders, Philip II of France and Richard of England
- Poor diplomacy
- Offended them through unrealistic requests
- Succession crisis in England after the death of King Richard meant that England and France were too busy for crusading
- The German Holy Roman Emperor-Elect, Philip of Swabia, was not approached because Innocent disputed his claim to the imperial title
- Peter of Capuano alienated prospective Crusade leaders, Philip II of France and Richard of England
- Small number of Crusaders arrived in Venice
- Preachers Innocent had appointed had failed to stir up sufficient recruits
- Some, like Eustace, Abbot of St Gerner de Flay, focused their sermons on the idea of vita apolista and moral reform, which maked the crusade message they were supposed to spread
- Innocent's failure to appreciate the shifting conceptions of chivalry in the 12th Century
- Third Crusade had done much to associate crusading with chivalry
- Richard and his followers were idolised by the knightly classes
- New chivalric values placed promience upon following overlords like Richard rather than the old physical ideas of brute strength and warlike deeds
- Knights would not simply support Innocent as a chance to show off as they had done during the First Crusade
- Knights would have to follow a leader
- Knights would not simply support Innocent as a chance to show off as they had done during the First Crusade
- Innocent failed to recruit the top strata of secular society, and this was therefore fundamental to the problems that followed
- Third Crusade had done much to associate crusading with chivalry
- Preachers Innocent had appointed had failed to stir up sufficient recruits
- Changed the features of the Crusade too quickly
- Attempt at a Church-wide tax in 1199 was largely unsuccessful
- In his demand for one-fortieth of Church income, Innocent had to fight the conservative tide of Church thinking
- Most still held firm to the belief that payment to go on crusade should be made by the individual
- Attempt at a Church-wide tax in 1199 was largely unsuccessful
- Innocent only gave the Crusaders until March 1199 to depart on the Fourth Crusade
- Only six months after he had published Post Miserabile
- Not enough time for recruitment of crusaders, leadership decision making and the arrangement of transportation to Outremer
- Innocent's expectations exceeded what was realistic
- Failed to secure secular leadership
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