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Enrico Dandolo
Doge of Venice who, old and blind, steered the Fourth Crusade to Zara and Constantinople
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Bound for Egypt but in debt to Venice, the crusade turned aside, captured and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, and set up the Latin Empire.
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing
- The Crusades1095 – 1291
From the Council of Clermont to the fall of Acre — two centuries of war between Latin Europe and the Islamic world over the Holy Land