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42. Robert of Clari, Conquest, p. 31 and p. 38 for the alleged use of Fulk’s money; James of Vitry, Historia Occidentalis, p. 101. For other accounts of Fulk, his controversial personality and the disposal of his money, see the Devastatio Constantinopolitana, the account of the crusade by the so-called Anonymous of Soissons, and the colourful chronicle by the Cistercian Alberic of Trois Fontaines, trans. A. J. Andrea, Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade (Leiden 2000), pp. 213, 233, 293; and Mas-Latrie, Chronique d’Ernoul, p. 233.

43. Tyerman, England and the Crusades, pp. 160–70 and refs.

44. Roger of Howden, Chronica, iv, 111; J. and L. Riley-Smith, Crusades, pp. 145–8.

45. Innocent III, Hageneder et al., Register, i, no. 555; ii, no. 212; E. Kennan, ‘Innocent III and the First Political Crusade’, Traditio, 27 (1971), 231–49; N. Housley, ‘Crusades against Christians’, Crusade and Settlement, ed. Edbury, pp. 27–8.

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1. Villehardouin, Conquest, p. 93. In general, D. E. Queller and T. F. Madden, The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople (Philadelphia 1997); M. Angold, The Fourth Crusade (London 2003).

2. At least once he rather belatedly found out about the violence and pillage, see his letter of 12 July 1205, translated in Andrea, Sources, pp. 163–8.

3. Andrea, Sources, p. 294.

4. Villehardouin, Conquest, pp. 29–31.

5. J. and L. Riley-Smith, Crusades, pp. 145–8.

6. For Germany, Gunther of Pairis, Capture, pp. 67–72 and p. 149 note 28 and ref. For the British Isles, Tyerman, England and the Crusades, pp. 96, 160, 162, 163, 167, 168, 170; A. Macquarrie, Scotland and the Crusades, pp. 32–3.

7. Andrea, Sources, pp. 19–21.

8. Ralph of Coggeshall, trans. Andrea, Sources, p. 280; Mas-Latrie, Chronique d’Ernoul, p. 338; cf. Devastatio Constantinopolitana, trans. Andrea, Sources, p. 213.

9. Gunther of Pairis, Capture, pp. 67–77, 149 note 28; placing the sermon less plausibly given the subsequent chronology of Martin’s crusade in 1200, C. Maier, ‘Kirche, Kreuz und Ritual’, Deutches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 55 (1999); Villehardouin, Conquest, pp. 38–9, 51.

10. Gunther of Pairis, Capture, p. 68.

11. Villehardouin, Conquest, p. 29.

12. For biographical information, J. Longnon, Les Compagnons de Villehardouin (Geneva 1978).

13. Robert of Clari, Conquest, pp. 33–4, 102, 117–18.

14. Deeds of the Bishops of Halberstadt, trans. Andrea, Sources, p. 246 and, generally, pp. 246–64.

15. Andrea, Sources, p. 250.

16. Hugues de Berzé, S’Onques nus hom pour dure departie, written in Lombardy in June 1202, Bédier and Aubry, Chansons, pp. 126–9.

17. Andrea, Sources, p. 186.

18. Villehardouin, Conquest, pp. 36–7; Robert of Clari, Conquest, p. 34; J. and L. Riley-Smith, Crusades, p. 147 (‘in stipendia bellatorum’ in Latin, Roger of Howden, Chronica, iv, 111); Andrea, Sources, p. 188.

19. Villehardouin, Conquest, pp. 40–41, 52–3.

20. A. Wauters (ed.), Table chronologique des chartes et diplômes imprimés concernant l’histoire de la Belgique (Brussels 1866–1965), iii, 174.

21. Andrea, Sources, p. 247.

22. Tyerman, England and the Crusades, p. 96 and p. 400, note 35 and refs.; Baldwin, The Government of Philip Augustus, pp. 96 and 480 note 62.

23. Tyerman, England and the Crusades, p. 191.

24. According to the contemporary Devastatio Constantinopolitana, Andrea, Sources, p. 213.

25. Collection des principaux cartulaires du diocese de Troyes, vi, Cartulaire de Montier-le-Celle, ed. C. Lalone (Paris-Troyes 1882), pp. 10–11, no. 9; Pèlerins Champenois en Palestine, ed. A. de Barthelemy, Revue de l’Orient Latin, 1 (1898), p. 366.

26. Chartes de Chapitre de Sainte-Waudru de Mons, ed. L. Devillers (Brussels 1899–1913), i, no. XLV, pp. 84–6.