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Fourth Crusade   /fɔrθ krusˈeɪd/   Listen
Fourth Crusade

noun
1.
A Crusade from 1202 to 1204 that was diverted into a battle for Constantinople and failed to recapture Jerusalem.





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... conquered Jerusalem in 1187, and the third crusade was inaugurated, which resulted in securing the right to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem free from taxes. The power of the Crusaders was now broken. Another band assembled at Venice in 1203 to undertake the fourth crusade, but they never entered Palestine. The fifth effort was made, and Frederick, Emperor of Germany, crowned himself king of Jerusalem in 1229, and returned to his native land the next year. The Turks conquered Palestine in 1244 and burned Jerusalem. Louis IX. of France led the seventh crusade, another ...
— A Trip Abroad • Don Carlos Janes


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