“Be it known to you further, that the fame of this holy man so spread, that it reached the Pope of Rome, Innocent and the Pope sent to France, and ordered the right worthy man to preach the cross (the Crusade) by his authority.
And this said Fulk began to speak of God throughout the Isle-de-France, and the other countries round about and you must know that by him the Lord wrought many miracles.
“Be it known to you that eleven hundred and ninety-seven years after the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the time of Innocent Pope of Rome, and Philip King of France, and Richard King of England, there was in France a holy man named Fulk of Neuilly – which Neuilly is between Lagni-sur-Marne and Paris – and he was a priest and held the cure of the village. The damage that resulted from the sacking of the great city of Constantinople and the political destabilization that occurred ultimately caused its weakening, ultimately resulting in its takeover by Turkish forces two centuries later, resulting in their control of the once-glittering Byzantine empire. “De la Conquête de Constantinople” (On the Conquest of Constantinople), one of the oldest surviving examples of French prose, is considered to be the most important historical source on the Fourth Crusade and the tragic Sack of Constantinople.Īs disturbing as this part of Byzantine history is, and as ugly as it is to see how western Christians treated Eastern Christianity, this relation of the Conquest stands as an invaluable chronicle of the world at the time, and what we see now as almost unfathomable misunderstandings that led to the destruction of the Byzantine world as it once was. Crusaders attack Constantinople in a miniature painting from the book “The Conquest of Constantinople” by Geoffroi de Villehardouin, who was one of the French knights in the attacking forces.
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