For 10 points, identify this crusade, when armies from Western Europe and Venice captured Constantinople from the Byzantines.
Robert de Clari claimed that the prostitutes used by the army participating in a battle of this campaign were sent away following a major offensive in order to focus attention on the siege of a harbor wall. This campaign was partly instigated by a document that appointed Sofferdo and Capuano as special assistants and by the preaching of Fulk of Neuilly (nwee). In a gambit to pay off debts, this campaign targeted a city in Dalmatia in an attack in which the father of Simon (*) V de Montfort took part. It was called for by the bull Post Miserabile (MISS-uh-rah-BEE-lay). The nearly blind Enrico Dandolo began this crusade setting sail from Venice, though Theobald III, Count of Champagne, had originally been set to lead it. Due to this crusade, called by Innocent III, three emperors named Alexius existed in the same year. For 10 points, identify this crusade, when armies from Western Europe and Venice captured Constantinople from the Byzantines.
Robert de Clari claimed that the prostitutes used by the army participating in a battle of this campaign were sent away following a major offensive in order to focus attention on the siege of a harbor wall.
Fourth Crusade