A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . , especially, all this resulted only in grow-ing ahenation from the Curia and its church. There only isolatedprinces were found to listen to the summons to Palestine; and whenat last, in the beginning of the thirteenth century, a stately crusad-ing host had been got together, its destination was, thi-ough a pecu-liar chain of circumstances, diverted to quite another when, at last, the preaching of the crusade became debased bythe popes into a weapon to be used against the Hohenstaufens, andba
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . , especially, all this resulted only in grow-ing ahenation from the Curia and its church. There only isolatedprinces were found to listen to the summons to Palestine; and whenat last, in the beginning of the thirteenth century, a stately crusad-ing host had been got together, its destination was, thi-ough a pecu-liar chain of circumstances, diverted to quite another when, at last, the preaching of the crusade became debased bythe popes into a weapon to be used against the Hohenstaufens, andbands of greedy adventurers, decorated with the cross, took the fieldto subvert states and subjugate their peoples, the glamour whichhad hitherto surrounded these expeditions vanished entirely. Suchenterprises came to be regarded with ever growing aversion as ameans of strengthening the temporal yoke of the Fig. 124.— Coin of Alexius II. Comnenus. The Emperor and St. Eugenius onhorse-bacli. Size of original. (Berlin.) After various feebler attempts on the Holy Land had provedresultless, the enthusiastic Fulc de Neuilly was at length success-ful in gathering a number of princes, nobles, and prelates, espe-cially out of France, Flanders, and Italy, for a new crusade, CoimtBaldwin of Flanders and the Marquis Bonifiice of RIontferrat, abrother of the Conrad murdered at Tyre, being the most distinguishedmembers. As a recompense for their transport, the crusaders boundthemselves to assist the Venetians in the capture of the city of Zaraon the Dalmatian coast. There Alexius Angelus appeared in theircamp, praying for aid to restore his dethroned father, Isaac Ange-lus, and to secure his own succession. On the treacherous gleam ofprosperity that had smiled on the Byzantine empire under l\Ianuel,there had now followed a period of incurable disorder. Manuelsyounger son, Alexius (1180-1183, Fig. 1
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