Bar Hebraeus’ Chronography Concerning the Taking of Constantinople by the Franks from the Greeks
X- And in the year six hundred of the ARABS (A.D. 1203), which is the year fifteen hundred and fifteen of the GREEKS (A.D. 1204), in the month of NISAN (APRIL), the FRANKS took CONSTANTINOPLE from the GREEKS, and they brought their kingdom to an end from that year. For the king of the GREEKS took the sister of the king of FRANCE to wife, and she bore him a son. The king of the GREEKS had a brother, and this man rebelled against the king, and they blinded his eyes, and put him to death in prison. Then the son of the murdered man fled to his uncle the king of FRANCE, and he was filled with...
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