Why did the 4th crusade fail / get diverted to Constantinople?
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- Created on: 15-03-19 14:51
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- Why did the 4th crusade fail / get diverted to Constantinople
- Lack of manpower
- failure to secure expected numbers (1/3 of expected PPs, had a shortfall of 35,000 marks)
- debt to Venice paid by attacking Zara
- over estimation of numbers (exp. 33,500 but got 11,000)
- Actions of leadership
- Pope Innocent III
- called the crusade
- 1202 - threatened Alexius with crusade using diversion of Const as a threat
- at first, congratulated taking of Const, then heard of the atrocities there are and condemned it
- uniting of the churches = pope's ultimate goal
- couldn't control the crusade and did not participate
- Encrico Dandoldo & Venetians
- created diversion to Zara for the payment of finance
- Dandolo's diversion to Const for trading rights and privilages
- over estimated envoys to attacks Zara and Const in repayment of debt
- over estimated the number of crusaders
- Pope Innocent III
- Actions of Alexius the younger
- HAGENAU PLOT - 1201, Alexius escaped captivity and sought help from sister and her husband (Eirene and Philip of Swabia)
- plot: deliberately divert crusade (Boniface present)
- MEETING CRUSADERS AT ZARA - met in 1203 and promised 200,000 marks and 100,000 men in return for help against Emperor Alexius
- Byz wealth would've helped financial crisis
- FAILURE OF ALEXIUS - didn't meet agreement 1203-4. Crus = angry. Alexius is overthrown and killed by coup (1204) and new Emp, Alexius V refuses to pay. Crus sack the city in 1204
- DECLINE OF RELATIONS WITH BYZ - growing intolerance and political and religious antipathy between E and W.
- bad rels with Greeks made it unlikely that the crusaders would divert crusade SOLELY at the request of Byz
- HAGENAU PLOT - 1201, Alexius escaped captivity and sought help from sister and her husband (Eirene and Philip of Swabia)
- Greed
- capture and sack of Const brought the crusade to a halt in April 1204
- Lack of manpower
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