Notes, on the Fifth Crusade

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Notes, on the Fifth Crusade. One page of REH-typed notes.

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The Fifth Crusade —
The instigator was Fulk of Neuilly, 1201 to 1204. Pope Innocent III
leaders Baldwin IX, Boniface, Count of Flanders, Boniface II, count
of Montferrat.
  Cities taken — Spalato, Ragusa, Sebenico, and Zara.
The crusade then took Constantinople for Alexis, and put Angelus on the
throne. The people strangled Angelus and the crusaders again sacked
the city and divided the empire. Baldwin was elected emperor of
Romania, Montferrat was of Macedonia — king —. Vandolo and Venice
got de real goods, giving de empire de works and hooking all de ice.
The count of Blois received the Asiatic provinces.

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