The Venetians agreed to support the passage but demanded large monetary reparations, and when its participants were unable to pay, it altered the purpose of the enterprise for debt repayment.
This action was roused by the preaching of Fulk of Neuilly and initially led by Count Thibaut of Champagne, but upon his death it was taken over by the Italian Boniface of Montferrat, who assembled a fleet for Egypt. The Venetians agreed to support the passage but demanded large monetary reparations, and when its participants were unable to pay, it altered the purpose of the enterprise for debt repayment. Manifesting the Great Schism between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, this is, for 10 points, what event that culminated in the sacking of Constantinople in the early Thirteenth Century?
This action was roused by the preaching of Fulk of Neuilly and initially led by Count Thibaut of Champagne, but upon his death it was taken over by the Italian Boniface of Montferrat, who assembled a fleet for Egypt.
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