who was the leader of the fourth crusade???????

Answer 1

It was led by the Italian Count Boniface of Montferrat.

Answer 2

The Fourth Crusade was initiated in 1202 by Pope Innocent III, with the intention of invading the Holy Land through Egypt. Because the Crusaders lacked the funds to pay for the fleet and provisions that they had contracted from the Venetians, Doge Enrico Dandolo, enlisted them to restore to obedience the Christian city of Zara (Zadar). Because they subsequently lacked provisions and time on their vessel lease the leaders decided to go to Constantinople, where they attempted to place a Byzantine exile on the throne. After a series of misunderstandings and outbreaks of violence, the crusaders sacked the city in 1204.


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Answer 3

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Answer 4

The Fourth Crusade (1201–1204), originally designed to conquer Jerusalem through an invasion of Egypt, instead, in 1204, invaded and conquered the Eastern Orthodox city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Pope Innocent III began to call for a Crusade in 1198. A crusading army led by Italian Count Boniface of Montferrat negotiated in 1200 with the Doge of Venice for transport of 33,500 Crusaders to Egypt. When a reduced Crusader army in 1201 could not pay the original price, the Venetians proposed they pay their debt by attacking the port of Zara in Dalmatia, a former Venetian city under the protection of the Catholic King Emeric of Hungary.

Meanwhile, Boniface met with Alexius IV Angelus, son of the recently-deposed Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelus; Alexius offered to reunite the Byzantine church with Rome, pay the crusaders an enormous sum, and join the crusade to Egypt with a large army, if the crusaders would sail to Constantinople and restore his throne. Boniface agreed, and Alexius returned with Boniface to rejoin the fleet at Corfu after it had sailed from Zara. The fleet arrived at Constantinople in late June, 1203, and the Crusaders took the city on April 12, 1204.

The empire was apportioned between Venice and the crusade's leaders, and the Latin Empire of Constantinople was established. Almost none of the crusaders ever made it to the Holy Land, and the unstable Latin Empire siphoned off much of Europe's crusading energy. The legacy of the Fourth Crusade was the deep sense of betrayal the Latins had instilled in their Greek coreligionists. With the events of 1204, the schism between the Catholic West and Orthodox East was complete.

The Fourth Crusade was one of the last of the major crusades to be directed by the Papacy; later crusades were directed by individual monarchs, mostly directed against Egypt, and only one subsequent crusade, the Sixth, succeeded in restoring Jerusalem to Christian rule.

The Fourth Crusade (1201–1204), originally designed to conquer Jerusalem through an invasion of Egypt, instead, in 1204, invaded and conquered the Eastern Orthodox city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Pope Innocent III began to call for a Crusade in 1198. A crusading army led by Italian Count Boniface of Montferrat negotiated in 1200 with the Doge of Venice for transport of 33,500 Crusaders to Egypt. When a reduced Crusader army in 1201 could not pay the original price, the Venetians proposed they pay their debt by attacking the port of Zara in Dalmatia, a former Venetian city under the protection of the Catholic King Emeric of Hungary.

Meanwhile, Boniface met with Alexius IV Angelus, son of the recently-deposed Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelus; Alexius offered to reunite the Byzantine church with Rome, pay the crusaders an enormous sum, and join the crusade to Egypt with a large army, if the crusaders would sail to Constantinople and restore his throne. Boniface agreed, and Alexius returned with Boniface to rejoin the fleet at Corfu after it had sailed from Zara. The fleet arrived at Constantinople in late June, 1203, and the Crusaders took the city on April 12, 1204.

The empire was apportioned between Venice and the crusade's leaders, and the Latin Empire of Constantinople was established. Almost none of the crusaders ever made it to the Holy Land, and the unstable Latin Empire siphoned off much of Europe's crusading energy. The legacy of the Fourth Crusade was the deep sense of betrayal the Latins had instilled in their Greek coreligionists. With the events of 1204, the schism between the Catholic West and Orthodox East was complete.

The Fourth Crusade was one of the last of the major crusades to be directed by the Papacy; later crusades were directed by individual monarchs, mostly directed against Egypt, and only one subsequent crusade, the Sixth, succeeded in restoring Jerusalem to Christian rule.
Alexios IV Angelos or Alexius IV Angelus (Greek: Αλέξιος Δ' Άγγελος) (c. 1182-February 8, 1204) was Byzantine Emperor from August 1203 to January 1204. He was the son of emperor Isaac II Angelos and his first wife Eirene (Herina). His paternal uncle was Emperor Alexios III Angelos.


Prince in exile
The young Alexios was imprisoned in 1195 when Alexios III overthrew Isaac II in a coup. In 1201, two Pisan merchants were employed to smuggle Alexios out of Constantinople to the Holy Roman Empire, where he took refuge with his brother-in-law Philip of Swabia[1], King of Germany.

While there he met with Marquis Boniface of Montferrat, Philip's cousin, who had been chosen to lead the Fourth Crusade, but had temporarily left the Crusade during the siege of Zara to visit Philip. Boniface and Alexios discussed diverting the Crusade to Constantinople so that Alexios could be restored to his father's throne; in return, Alexios would give them Byzantine soldiers to help fight the Crusade, as well as money to pay off the Crusaders' debt to the Republic of Venice. Additionally, he promised to bring the Greek Orthodox Church under the authority of the pope. Alexios accompanied Boniface back to the Crusader fleet, which had moved on to Corcyra, and the Venetians were in favour of the plan when they learned of it. In 1202 the fleet arrived at Constantinople. Alexios was paraded outside the walls, but the citizens were apathetic, as Alexios III, though a usurper and illegitimate in the eyes of the westerners, was an acceptable emperor for the Byzantine citizens.


Emperor
On July 18, 1203 the Crusaders launched an assault on the city, and Alexios III immediately fled into Thrace. The next morning the Crusaders were surprised to find that the citizens had released Isaac II from prison and proclaimed him emperor, despite the fact that he had been blinded to make him ineligible to rule. The Crusaders could not accept this, and forced Isaac II to proclaim his son Alexios IV co-emperor on August 1.

Despite Alexios' grand promises, Isaac, the more experienced and practical of the two, knew that the Crusaders' debt could never be repaid from the imperial treasury. Alexios, however, had apparently not grasped how far the empire's financial resources had fallen during the previous fifty years. Alexios did manage to raise half the sum promised, by appropriating treasures from the church and by confiscating the property of his enemies. He then attempted to defeat his uncle Alexios III, who remained in control of Thrace. The sack of some Thracian towns helped Alexios' situation a little, but meanwhile hostility between the restive Crusaders and the inhabitants of Constantinople was growing.

In December 1203 violence exploded between the Constantinopolitans and the Crusaders. Enraged mobs seized and brutally murdered any foreigner they could lay hands upon, and the Crusaders felt that Alexios had not fulfilled his promises to them. Alexios refused their demands, and is quoted as saying, "I will not do any more than I have done." While relations with the Crusaders were deteriorating, Alexios had become deeply unpopular with the Greek citizenry, and with his own father. Blinded and nearly powerless, Isaac II resented having to share the throne with his son; he spread rumors of Alexios' supposed sexual perversity, alleging he kept company with "depraved men". The chronicler Niketas Choniates dismissed Alexios as "childish" and criticized his familiarity with the Crusaders and his lavish lifestyle.