HIST 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alexios Iv Angelos, Alexios V Doukas, Albigensian Crusade
8 Feb 2017
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Takeaway: after 1200, none of the crusades to the holy land accomplish their original goals. The dream of retaking jerusalem becomes increasingly distant, and the latin territories in the holy land are lost. The idea of crusading, however, lives on, and is put to new and creative uses. Latin east was relatively stable after richard the lionhearted left, jerusalem was not recaptured however, they managed to get acre. Saladin was now gone, and jerusalem still needed to be capture, innocent iii in europe claims a new crusade. Kings are not the ones to go on this fourth crusade, they don"t have ships, they wanted to go by sea, not by land. 35,000 men were contracted, as well as war galleys (in exchange for any bounty these galleys get), only 1/3 of these supposed. Venice would forgive the debt if the crusaders would help them take zara.
