History of the Crusades. Episode 72 the Fourth Crusade Roman numeral 3.

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Now, just before we start, we need to have a word about episode 71.

The first 700 or so people to download episode 71 might have been a little bit surprised to find the intro music popping up in the middle of the episode.

And then around the 18 minute mark there was that strange sentence which

sounded like it had been recorded in a wind tunnel. My personal favorite was when I kept on referring to the fourth crusade as occurring in the year 12,000,

which of course it didn't. It was the year 1200.

Well, I guess everyone has a bad day at the office, and episode 71 was my bad day at the office.

So I think we should put episode 71 firmly behind us and move forward into the rest of the

fourth crusade, hopefully with no further bloopers.

Okay, so here we go. Episode 72.

Hello again.

Last week we saw Pope Innocent the third increasingly lose control over the crusade he had instigated.

Boniface of Monfra took over leadership of the expedition following the death of young

Count Theobald of Champagne, and a delegation travelled to Venice where

they negotiated the passage for 33,5,000 Crusaders at a cost of 85,000 silver marks.

However, only around 12,000 Crusaders showed up in Venice

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