“Let’s start the 13th Century off right, my dudes.”
by jackt-up
“Let’s start the 13th Century off right, my dudes.”
by jackt-up
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The entire crusader army was also excommunicated earlier when they [sacked the Christian city of Zara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Zara).
Great crusading by these fuckers, sure killed a lot of “Muslims” on the Adriatic coast.
Byzantium caught the world’s most unfortunate stray
I’m picturing someone in Hell calling up the Pope to tell him how impressed they were by the crusaders
Ignoring the ethnical issues of religious war. The crusade for the holy land were patently stupid because all those did were weaken Christiandom.
The 4th Crusade marked the beginning of Crusades drifting away from papal authority. After him, Kings started going on their own crusades, as done by Frederick II and Edward I.
Well, there were a bunch of reasons. Mainly, they were helping a Byzantine prince reclaim his throne, which was considered a righteous act in itself. He had also promised to provide a large amount of aid to the Crusaders, which would’ve been extremely helpful for the campaign crusading ain’t easy.
At first, the plan went swimmingly. They took the city and put the guy on the throne. Then shit hit the jet-powered fan. He’d been lying about the amount of aid he could actually provide. By that point, the Crusaders were already pretty bloody livid over the whole affair with Venice pulling strings just to get them there, and now they were being stiffed again.
Almost makes a man want to sack a city