Too Broke for Jerusalem: A Crusade Sacks Constantinople Instead
Medieval Europe

Too Broke for Jerusalem: A Crusade Sacks Constantinople Instead

Mid-journey to Jerusalem, a Flemish count ran out of money, and the invoice he couldn't pay redrew the map of the medieval world.

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