Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople
by Geoffrey de Villehardouin
- THE FIRST PREACHING OF THE CRUSADE
- OF THOSE WHO TOOK THE CROSS
- THE CRUSADERS SEND SIX ENVOYS TO VENICE
- THE ENVOYS ARRIVE IN VENICE, AND PROFFER THEIR REQUEST
- CONDITIONS PROPOSED BY THE DOGE
- CONCLUSION OF THE TREATY, AND RETURN OF THE ENVOYS
- THE CRUSADERS LOOK FOR ANOTHER CHIEF
- BONIFACE, MARQUIS OF MONTFERRAT, BECOMES CHIEF OF THE CRUSADE - NEW CRUSADERS - DEATH OF GEOFFRY COUNT OF PERCHE
- FIRST STARTING OF THE PILGRIMS FOR VENICE, AND OF SOME WHO WENT NOT THITHER
- OF THE PILGRIMS WHO CAME TO VENICE, AND OF THOSE WHO WENT TO APULIA
- THE PILGRIMS LACK MONEY WHEREWITH TO PAY THE VENETIANS
- THE CRUSADERS OBTAIN A RESPITE BY PROMISING TO HELP THE VENETIANS AGAINST ZARA
- THE DOGE AND A NUMBER OF VENETIANS TAKE THE CROSS
- MESSAGE OF ALEXIUS, THE SON OF ISAAC, THE DETHRONED EMPEROR OF CONSTANTINOPLE - DEATH OF FULK OF NEUILLY - ARRIVAL OF THE GERMANS
- THE CRUSADERS LEAVE VENICE TO BESIEGE ZARA
- THE INHABITANTS OF ZARA OFFER TO CAPITULATE, AND THEN DRAW BACK - ZARA IS TAKEN
- THE CRUSADERS ESTABLISH THEMSELVES IN THE CITYAFFRAY BETWEEN THE VENETIANS AND THE FRANKS
- ON WHAT CONDITIONS ALEXIUS PROPOSES TO OBTAIN THE HELP OF THE CRUSADERS FOR THE CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE
- DISCORD AMONG THE CRUSADERS - OF THOSE WHO ACCEPT THE PROPOSALS OF THE YOUNG ALEXIUS
- OF THOSE WHO SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM THE HOST TO GO TO SYRIA, AND OF THE FLEET OF THE COUNT OF FLANDERS
- THE CRUSADERS OBTAIN THE POPE'S ABSOLUTION FOR THE CAPTURE OF ZARA
- DEPARTURE OF THE CRUSADERS FOR CORFU - ARRIVAL OF THE YOUNG ALEXIUS - CAPTURE OF DURAS
- HOW THE CHIEFS OF THE CRUSADERS HELD BACK THOSE WHO WANTED TO ABANDON THE HOST
- DEPARTURE FROM CORFU-CAPTURE OF ANDROS AND ABYDOS
- ARRIVAL AT ST. STEPHEN - DELIBERATION AS TO PLAN OF ATTACK
- THE CRUSADERS LAND AT CHALCEDON AND SCUTARI
- THE FORAGERS DEFEAT THE GREEKS
- MESSAGE OF THE EMPEROR ALEXIUS-REPLY OF THE CRUSADERS
- THE CRUSADERS SHOW THE YOUNG ALEXIUS TO THE PEOPLE OF CONSTANTINOPLE, AND PREPARE FOR THE BATTLE
- THE CRUSADERS SEIZE THE PORT
- CAPTURE OF THE TOWER OF GALATA
- ATTACK ON THE CITY BY LAND AND SEA
- FIRST INCIDENTS OF THE ASSAULT
- ASSAULT OF THE CITY
- CAPTURE OF TWENTY-FIVE TOWERS
- THE EMPEROR ALEXIUS COMES OUT FOR BATTLE, BUT RETIRES WITHOUT ATTACKING
- ALEXIUS ABANDONS CONSTANTINOPLE - HIS BROTHER ISAAC IS REPLACED ON THE THRONE - THE CRUSADERS SEND HIM A MESSAGE
- THE EMPEROR ISAAC RATIFIES THE COVENANTS ENTERED INTO BY HIS SON
- ENTRY OF THE CRUSADERS INTO CONSTANTINOPLE - CORONATION OF THE YOUNG ALEXIUS
- ALEXIUS BEGS THE CRUSADERS TO PROLONG THEIR STAY
- DEBATE AMONG THE CRUSADERS - DEATH OF MATTHEW OF MONTMORENCY
- PROGRESS OF THE YOUNG ALEXIUS THROUGH THE EMPIRE
- CONFLICT BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND LATINS IN CONSTANTINOPLE-BURNING OF THE CITY
- THE YOUNG ALEXIUS RETURNS TO CONSTANTINOPLIZHE FAILS IN HIS PROMISES TO THE CRUSADERS
- THE CRUSADERS DEFY THE EMPERORS
- THE WAR BEGINS - THE GREEKS ENDEAVOUR TO SET FIRE TO THE FLEET OF THE CRUSADERS
- MOURZUPHLES USURPS THE EMPIRE - ISAAC DIES, AND THE YOUNG ALEXIUS IS STRANGLED
- THE CRUSADERS CONTINUE THE WAR - DEFEAT OF MOURZUPHLES
- OF THE PILGRIMS WHO HAD GONE TO SYRIA
- AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE FRANKS AND VENETIANS BEFORE ATTACKING CONSTANTINOPLE
- ATTACK OF THE CRUSADERS REPULSED - THEY MAKE READY FOR ANOTHER ASSAULT
- THE CRUSADERS TAKE A PART OF THE CITY
- FLIGHT OF MOURZUPHLES - SECOND FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE
- THE CRUSADERS OCCUPY THE CITY
- DIVISION OF THE SPOIL
- BALDWIN, COUNT OF FLANDERS, ELECTED EMPEROR
- BONIFACE WEDS ISAAC'S WIDOW, AND AFTER BALDWIN'S CORONATION OBTAINS THE KINGDOM OF SALONIKA
- BALDWIN MARCHES AGAINST MOURZUPHLES
- MOURZUPHLES TAKES REFUGE WITH ALEXIUS, THE BROTHER OF ISAAC, WHO PUTS OUT HIS EYES
- BALDWIN MARCHES AGAINST ALEXIUS-HE IS JOINED BY BONIFACE
- RUPTURE BETWEEN BALDWIN AND B0NIFACE - THE ONE MARCHES ON SALONIKA, THE OTHER ON DEMOTICA
- MESSAGE OF THE CRUSADERS TO BONIFACE - HE SUSPENDS THE SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE
- MESSAGE OF THE CRUSADERS TO BALDWIN - DEATH OF SEVERAL KNIGHTS
- BALDWIN'S REPLY TO THE MESSAGE OF THE CRUSADERS
- RECONCILIATION OF BALDWIN AND BONIFACE
- THE KINGDOM OF SALONIKA IS RESTORED TO BONIFACE - DIVISION OF THE LAND BETWEEN THE CRUSADERS
- EXECUTION OF MOURZUPHLES AND IMPRISONMENT OF ALEXIUS
- CAPTURE OF ABYDOS, OF PHILIPPOPOLIS, AND OF NICOMEDIA - THEODORE LASCARIS PRETENDS TO THE EMPIRE
- REINFORCEMENTS FROM SYRIA - DEATH OF MARY, THE WIFE OF BALDWIN
- DEFEAT OF THEODORE AND CONSTANTINE LASCARIS
- BONIFACE ATTACKS LEON SGURE; HE IS JOINED BY GEOFFRY OF VILLEHARDOUIN, THE NEPHEW
- EXPLOITS OF WILLIAM OF CHAMPLITTE AND GEOFFRY OF VILLEHARDOUIN, THE NEPHEW, IN MOREA
- SIEGE OF NAPOLI AND CORINTH; ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND JOHANNIZZA
- UPRISING OF THE GREEKS AT DEMOTICA AND ADRIANOPLE; THEIR DEFEAT AT ARCADIOPOLIS
- THE CRUSADERS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STRAITS ARE RECALLED TO MARCH ON ADRIANOPLE - EXPEDITION OF GEOFFRY OF VILLEHARDOUIN
- RENIER OF TRIT ABANDONED AT PHILIPPOPOLIS BY HIS SON AND THE GREATER PART OF HIS PEOPLE
- BALDWIN UNDERTAKES THE SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE
- THE SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE CONTINUED WITHOUT RESULT
- JOHANNIZZA, KING OF WALLACHIA, COMES TO RELIEVE ADRIANOPLE
- DEFEAT OF THE CRUSADERS-BALDWIN TAKEN PRISONER
- THE CRUSADERS RAISE THE SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE
- RETREAT OF THE CRUSADERS
- PETER OF BRACIEUX AND PAYEN OF ORLEANS MEET THE RETREATING HOST
- THE HOST REACHES RODOSTO
- SEVEN THOUSAND PILGRIMS LEAVE THE CRUSADERS
- MEETING OF MANY OF THE CRUSADERS-HENRY, THE BROTHER OF BALDWIN, IS MADE REGENT
- RETURN TO CONSTANTINOPLE - APPEALS FOR HELP SENT TO THE POPE, AND TO FRANCE AND TO OTHER LANDS - DEATH OF THE DOGE
- THE REGENT OBTAINS CERTAIN ADVANTAGES OVER THE GREEKS
- SERES SURRENDERS TO JOHANNIZZA - HE FORFEITS HIS WORD
- THE REGENT BESIEGES ADRIANOPLE IN VAIN
- DESTRUCTION OF PHILIPPOPOLIS BY JOHANNIZZA
- THE REGENT SETS GARRISONS IN SUCH PLACES AS HE STILL HELD
- DEFEAT OF THE FRANKS NEAR RUSIUM
- NEW INVASION OF JOHANNIZZA; RUIN OF NAPOLI
- DESTRUCTION OF RODOSTO
- JOHANNIZZA CONTINUES HIS CONQUESTS AND RAVAGES
- THE GREEKS ARE RECONCILED TO THE CRUSADERS - JOHANNIZZA DESIEGES DEMOTICA
- THE CRUSADERS MARCH TO THE RELIEF OF DEMOTICA
- JOHANNIZZA RETREATS, FOLLOWED BY THE CRUSADERS
- RENIER OF TRIT RELIEVED AND DELIVERED
- HENRY CROWNED EMPEROR - JOHANNIZZA RAVAGES THE COUNTRY AGAIN - THE EMPEROR MARCHES AGAINST HIM
- THE EMPEROR MEETS JOHANNIZZA, AND RECAPTURES HIS PRISONERS
- PROJECTED MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE EMPEROR AND THE DAUGHTER OF BONIFACE - THE CRUSADERS RAVAGE THE LANDS OF JOHANNIZZA
- THE EMPEROR RESUMES THE WAR AGAINST THEODORE LASCARIS
- ADVANTAGES OBTAINED BY BONIFACE - MARRIAGE OF HIS DAUGHTER WITH THE EMPEROR
- THEODORE LASCARIS FORMS AN ALLIANCE WITH JOHANNIZZA
- SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE BY JOHANNIZZA - SIEGE OF SKIZA AND CIBOTOS BY LASCARIS
- THE EMPEROR ATTACKS THE FLEET OF THEODORE LASCARIS, AND RESCUES CIBOTOS
- JOHANNIZZA RAISES THE SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE
- SKIZA AGAIN BESIEGED BY THEODORE LASCARIS - THE EMPEROR DELIVERS THE CITY
- THE EMPEROR TWICE DELIVERS NICOMEDIA, BESIEGED BY THEODORE LASCARIS
- TRUCE WITH THEODORE LASCARIS - THE EMPEROR INVADES THE LANDS OF JOHANNIZZA
- THE EMPEROR'S FORAGERS SUFFER LOSS
- HOMAGE RENDERED BY BONIFACE TO THE EMPEROR, AND BY GEOFFRY OF VILLEHARDOUIN TO BONIFACE
- BONIFACE IS KILLED IN A BATTLE AGAINST THE BULGARIANS