Innocent III calls the Fourth Crusade
November 15, 1199
Shocked by the failure of the earlier crusades and the death of Henry VI's planned expedition, Pope Innocent III issued the bull Post miserabile summoning a new crusade aimed at Egypt as the strategic key to Jerusalem. The expedition would instead sack Christian Constantinople. The diversion of the Fourth Crusade to Constantinople would prove the most consequential unintended consequence in the history of the crusading movement.
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Also in 1199 (4 other events on record)
- Death of Richard the Lionheart · Europe · Politics
- John crowned King of England · Europe · Politics
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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