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365
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 10.

366
On the life expectancy of the Dandolo family see Thomas Madden, “Enrico Dandolo: His Life, His Family, and His Venice before the Fourth Crusade” (Ph.D diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993), 63–65, in Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 9. Mariano Sanudo, a sixteenth-century Venetian chronicler indicates Dandolo was eighty-five when elected
doge.Marino
Sanudo,
Vitae ducum venetorum
, ed. Lodovico Antonio Muratori, in
Rerum Italicarum Scriptores
(Milan: 1733), vol. 22, col. 527, in Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 9.

367
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 12.

368
Phillips,
The Fourth Crusade
, 66. What the Crusaders were asking was daunting: ships for an army of almost 35,000 men. The Crusaders also proposed an installment plan of 15,000 marks due on August 1, 1201; 10,000 marks due on November 1, 1201; 10,000 marks due on February 2, 1202 and the balance of 50,000 marks due at the end of April 1202. The ambassadors paid 5,000 marks up front in order to begin construction of the fleet immediately.

369
Phillips,
The Fourth Crusade
, 61.

370
Ibid.

371
Ibid., 65.

372
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 17.

373
Robert of Clari,
La conquête de Constantinople
, English trans. Edgar H. McNeal (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), sec. 7, 8, and sec. 11, 9-10, in Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 17.

374
Tyerman,
God’s War
, 513.

375
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 19.

376
Ibid., 23.

377
Villehardouin,
Conquête de Constantinople
, sec. 56, I: 58. In Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 48.

378
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 49.

379
Ibid., 51.

380
Vitaliano Brunelli,
Storia della città di Zara
(Venice: Istituto Veneto di Arti Grafiche, 1913) 361, in Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 56.

381
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 57.

382
Ibid., 74.

383
Villehardouin,
Conquête de Constantinople
, sec. 83, I: 82–84. In Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 75.

384
Ibid.

385
Peter of Les Vaux-de-Cernay,
The History of the Albigensian Crusade
, trans. W.A. and M.D. Sibly (Woodbridge: 1998), 58, in Tyerman,
God’s War
, 529.

386
Innocent III,
Register
, 5:160 (161), 316, in Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 77.

387
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 77.

388
Innocent III,
Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade
, trans. A.J. Andrea (Leiden: 2000), 41, in Phillips,
The Fourth Crusade
, 124.

389
Phillips,
The Fourth Crusade
, 196.

390
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 90.

391
Ibid., 89.

392
Tyerman,
God’s War
, 532.

393
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 102.

394
Ibid.

395
Innocent III, letter to Crusade leaders in
Chronicles of the Crusades,
ed. Hallam, 211.

396
Tyerman,
God’s War
, 543.

397
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 108.

398
France,
Western Warfare
, 107.

399
Villehardouin, “Conquest,”
Chronicles of the Crusades
, 64, in Phillips,
The Fourth Crusade
, 164.

400
Robert of Clari,
The Conquest of Constantinople
, trans. E.H. McNeal (New York: 1966), 67, in Tyerman,
God’s War
, 544.

401
Villehardouin,
Conquête de Constantinople
, sec. 165, I:166, in Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 122.

402
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 123.

403
For the number of acres destroyed see Tyerman,
God’s War
, 546. For the number of homeless see Thomas F. Madden, “The Fires of the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople, 1203–1204: A Damage Assessment,”
Byzantinische Zeitschrift,
84/85 (1992): 73–74, 88. In Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 125.

404
Tyerman,
God’s War
, 546.

405
David Nicolle,
The Fourth Crusade 1202
–
1204—The Betrayal of Byzantium
(Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2011), 64.

406
Casualty figures from Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 146, and Nicolle,
The Fourth Crusade
, 64.

407
Tyerman,
God’s War
, 549.

408
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 151.

409
According to Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 179, the Crusaders suffered 100 killed in action and presumably many wounded.

410
Robert of Clari in Nicolle,
The Fourth Crusade
, 70.

411
Robert of Clari,
Conquest
, 97, in Phillips,
The Fourth Crusade
, 251.

412
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 183.

413
Ibid.

414
Ibid.

415
Nicolle,
The Fourth Crusade
, 76.

416
Ibid.

417
Geoffrey of Villehardouin,
The Conquest of Constantinople
, trans. M.R.B. Shaw (London: 1963), 93, in Tyerman,
God’s War
, 501.

418
Phillips,
The Fourth Crusade
, 258.

419
Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 195.

420
Nicetas Choniates,
Historia
, 573. In Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 194.

421
Geoffrey of Villehardouin,
La Conquête de Constantinople
, ed. and French trans. E. Faral, 2 vols. (Paris: 1973), English trans. M.R.B. Shaw as
Joinville & Villehardouin: Chronicles of the Crusades
(Harmondsworth: 1963), ch. 250, tr. 92, in Housley,
Fighting for the Cross
, 165.

422
The estimate is Villehardouin’s in Queller and Madden,
The Fourth Crusade
, 200.

423
Madden,
The New Concise History of the Crusades
, 118.

424
Horace K. Mann,
The Lives of the
Popes of the Middle Ages
, vol. XII (London: 1925–1932), 266–267; Mary Purcell,
St. Anthony and His Times
(Dublin: 1960), 26, in Carroll,
The Glory of Christendom
, 158.