Crusading for the Latin Empire

From its foundation in 1204 in the wake of the Fourth Crusade, the papacy extended consistent support to the Latin Empire of Constantinople—established by Western crusaders on former Byzantine territory—by conferring crusade indulgences upon those who undertook its defence.

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