THE OPPOSITION BETWEEN BULGARIA AND THE LATIN EMPIRE OF CONSTANTINOPLE:

The article focuses on the participation of the Hungarian King Andrew II in the Fifth Crusade in 1217. The author rejects the speculations (B. Hóman, S. Runciman, F. Van Tricht et al.) that the reason of the king’s decision was ascending the throne of the Latin Empire after the death of the emperor Henry in 1216. Due to the lack of evidence in sources for these speculations, the author claims that the reasons for which Andrew II took part in the Fifth Crusade were rather prestigious, devotional and ambition oriented.

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The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century

Margins and Metropolis ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691153018.003.0005 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Judith Herrin

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Twelfth Century ◽

Economic Organization ◽

Diplomatic Relations ◽

Byzantine Empire ◽

Fourth Crusade ◽

Latin Empire

This chapter examines the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century. Between the tenth and twelfth centuries, the Byzantine state machinery was extremely sophisticated. It directed a systematic foreign policy and maintained a developed network of diplomatic relations with neighboring powers, controlled the minting and circulation of a stable gold currency, and ran a complex bureaucratic administration. However, the empire's economic organization was primitive. The chapter analyzes the fiscal and commercial aspects of the economic organization of a provincial area of the Byzantine Empire under the Angeloi during the period 1185–1204. It suggests that the conquest and sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade constitutes a collapse and disappearance of the empire in 1204, and that the establishment of a Latin Empire on Byzantine territory signals a definite break with the former Byzantine organization.

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VI. THE LATIN EMPIRE OF CONSTANTINOPLE, 1204-1261

A History of the Crusades, Volume 2 ◽

10.9783/9781512819564-013 ◽

1962 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robert Lee Wolff

Keyword(s):

Latin Empire

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Dualist Heresy in the Latin Empire of Constantinople

Religious Quest and National Identity in the Balkans ◽

10.1057/9780230523333_5 ◽

2001 ◽

pp. 69-77

Author(s):

Bernard Hamilton

Keyword(s):

Latin Empire

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Latin Emperors and Serbian Queens: Anna and Helena

Frankokratia ◽

10.1163/25895931-12340002 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1-2) ◽

pp. 56-107

Author(s):

Filip Van Tricht

Keyword(s):

Ripe Fruit ◽

Dynamic Power ◽

Latin Empire

Abstract Latin Constantinople in the 1240s and 1250s has often been considered a ripe fruit waiting to fall into the hands of one of the competing political entities in the region (Nicaea, Epiros, Bulgaria, etc.). This paper argues, on the contrary, that under Emperor Baldwin II (1240-1273) the Latin Empire remained a dynamic power in the post-1204 Byzantine world. The basis for this re-evaluation is a revisionist study of the genealogical relations between a number of leading families in the region (among others the Villehardouin, Da Verona, and Cayeux), creating networks both within Latin Romania and beyond. One of the main hypotheses advanced is that two Serbian queens – Stefan Nemanja’s third wife Anna (of Hainaut) and Stefan Uroš I’s wife Helena (Angelos/Courtenay) – were in fact what one might call Latin imperial princesses. This in turn leads to a reconsideration of Latin-Serbian relations in the period 1204-1261.

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