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hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agodid that actually happen??
Comment on White Maleman, cooking YouTuber, loves to tell you what to do
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agodid that actually happen??
Denjin@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Well, if you want to get specific, the Doge of Venice built a fleet to transport the crusader armies departing from Venice, but due to them mostly not having the money to pay for transit, he instead of sailing them to Jerusalem, he got the sailors to take them to Zara (on the Adriatic coast of modern day Turkey) with whom he already had issues with (they were rebellious subjects of Venice he wanted crushing).
After that, the Byzantine prince Alexios Angelos persuaded the crusaders to restore his deposed father to the throne and in payment would help them in their goal of taking Jerusalem.
They did what he asked but Alexios backed out of the deal so the Crusaders then sacked the city instead and instituted the short lived Latin Empire.