2-715-938 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Storming of Constantinople by Baldwin, Count of Flanders', (1204), 1890. Following the Sack of Constantinople in April 1204, during the Fourth Crusade, Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed the Byzantine city and Baldwin of Flanders was crowned Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]