History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 73 the the Fourth Crusade Roman numeral 4.

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You can safely say that the Fourth Crusade isn't turning out anything like Pope Innocent envisaged. He had called on the European

Christians to rise up and retake Jerusalem in the name of Christianity and he had decided that the key to success

was to keep the crusade firmly under the control of the church. Trouble was the Venetians had thoroughly outplayed the leaders of the

Crusade. In last week's episode we saw the Crusaders assist the Venetians to attack and seize the Christian

city of Zara. In an attempt to clear the debt they had incurred when fewer men than expected showed up in Venice to embark on the

crusade.

As a result, Pope Innocent had excommunicated everyone involved.

At the end of last week's episode, a delegation of Crusaders had left Zara for Rome, hoping to change Pope innocence's mind about the excommunication.

In the end, the Pope did reverse his decision.

Persuaded that the Crusaders had been pressured into attacking the Christians by the Venetians,

he reversed his decision to excommunicate the Crusaders.

However, he maintained the excommunication of the Venetians,

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