Marquisate of Bodonitsa (Thessalonica)

This article is about the specific polity Marquisate of Bodonitsa (Thessalonica) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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The Marquisate of Bodonitsa was originally created as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Thessalonica after the Fourth Crusade. It became a direct vassal of the Latin Empire in 1210. However, after the Latin Empire was conquered by the Byzantines, it became practically independent.

Establishment

Chronology

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1. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

1.1.Fourth Crusade

Was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem. However, the Western Crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204 and partitioned the Byzantine Empire.

2. Conquests of Henry

Expansion during the rule of Henry in the Latin Empire.

Disestablishment