4th crusade

On June 1, 1199, Pope Innocent III ultimately decreed that the Archbishopric of Dol should be placed under the authority of the Metropolitan of Tours. Conseqquently, the archbishop lost his title and pallium, leading the archbishopric to revert to a bishopric once again. Disagreeing with this...

Even before the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusade already wrecked havoc at Zara in 1202. Upon Venetian request, the Crusaders attacked and besieged Zara, which was a notable trade rival of Venice in the Adriatic. IOTL the city was caught offguard by the sudden arrival and...

So shortly before Constantinople was sacked over Alexios IV's inability to pay the Crusaders what he had promised them, the emperor the Crusaders were hired to overthrow, Alexios III, was contesting his nephew's counter-coup from his power base in Thrace, and at the same time Leo Sgouros was in...

So in 1190, the first medieval Albanian "state" known as the principality of Arbanon is formed by Progon of Kruje. At first, this "state" is merely a Byzantine vassal, but after the 4th crusade, it gains full independence with Progon's son, Gjin, as its head. Gjin dies shortly after, in 1208...

I've been reading about the complex and hard to pin down history of the various Eastern Romance speaking peoples in the balkans during the middle ages and I started considering the context of the fourth crusade and the temporary collapse of the Byzantine Empire. Assuming the crusader states in...

Like it says, if the 4th crusade or at least the 1204 sack of Constantinople and the subsequent partitioning of the East Roman Empire never occurred, what would happen with Bulgaria and the Balkans as a whole? Bulgaria had recently broken away from Byzantine control, declaring its second empire...

Issac II deals with Asen and Peter with a bit more tact and the second Bulgarian Empire never forms. What would be the effects on the 4th crusade and the years following it? What would a rump state in the region of Bulgaria look like?

Could the Turks and Greeks unite and reform the ERE after the 4th crusade? By that I mean a state in which the majority of people are either Turkish, Greek or a mix of both (all these groups living mostly peacefully with each other) conquers Constantinople and revives the Roman Empire. The...

As we all know the Eastern Roman Empire was shattered in the 13th century by the 4th Crusade where the Latins took Constantinople. However the Empire of Trebizond emerged as a savior to the Roman state and managed to restore the empire proper thanks to the work of Emperor Alexios VI Komnenos and...

In a scenario where either the 4th Crusade was never launched or went to Egypt as originally planned, how would the Byzantine/Rhomanian Empire develop? What are the long-term prospects of their survival without the Fourth Crusade breaking the empire's back? How long does the Angeloi rule over...

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