Boniface of Montferrat killed in Bulgaria
1207
The Latin king of Thessalonica, one of the Fourth Crusade's leading figures, was ambushed and killed by Bulgarian forces in a mountain pass. His severed head was sent to Tsar Kaloyan. The fragile Latin states carved from the Byzantine corpse lost one of their ablest commanders, and the balance of power in the Balkans tilted further toward Bulgarian and Greek revanchism.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.