Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople

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Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople

by Geoffroi de Villehardouin

EN·~5 hours·116 chapters

Chapters

116 total
1

Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople - by Geoffrey de Villehardouin - Translated by Frank T. Marzials - London: J.M. Dent, 1908

0:09
2

THE FIRST PREACHING OF THE CRUSADE

1:37
3

OF THOSE WHO TOOK THE CROSS

4:12
4

THE CRUSADERS SEND SIX ENVOYS TO VENICE

1:48
5

THE ENVOYS ARRIVE IN VENICE, AND PROFFER THEIR REQUEST

3:26
6

CONDITIONS PROPOSED BY THE DOGE

3:04
7

CONCLUSION OF THE TREATY, AND RETURN OF THE ENVOYS

6:24
8

THE CRUSADERS LOOK FOR ANOTHER CHIEF

3:34
9

BONIFACE, MARQUIS OF MONTFERRAT, BECOMES CHIEF OF THE CRUSADE—NEW CRUSADERS—DEATH OF GEOFFRY COUNT OF PERCHE

2:44
10

FIRST STARTING OF THE PILGRIMS FOR VENICE, AND OF SOME WHO WENT NOT THITHER

2:12

About the author

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Geoffroi de Villehardouin

1150–1212

A knight and marshal of Champagne, he left one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of the Fourth Crusade. His chronicle stands out for its direct, practical voice and for the rare view it gives into medieval politics and warfare.

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