{"slug": "baldwin-i-latin-emperor", "label": "Baldwin I, Latin Emperor", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_I%2C_Latin_Emperor", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298896", "qid": "Q298896", "description": "Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1172 - c.1205)", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [1172, 1237], "span_label": ["1172 CE", "1237 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "latin-empire", "label": "Latin Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "henry-of-flanders", "label": "Henry of Flanders", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "county-of-flanders", "label": "County of Flanders", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "france-in-the-middle-ages", "label": "France in the Middle Ages", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hagia-sophia", "label": "Hagia Sophia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "empire-of-nicaea", "label": "Empire of Nicaea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "paris", "label": "Paris", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-genoa", "label": "Republic of Genoa", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1172, "year_label": "1172 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Baldwin I, emperor of the Latin Empire (d. 1205)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369184481#Births", "title": "1172", "revid": 1369184481, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1200, "year_label": "1200 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Boniface I, Marquis of Montferrat, sends envoys to Venice, Genoa and other city-states to negotiate a contract for transport to the Levant. Meanwhile, Boniface and various nobles are mustering an expeditionary army (mainly forces from France and the Holy Roman Empire) at Paris. On February 23, Baldwin IX, count of Flanders and his brother Henry of Flanders take the cross at Bruges (modern Belgium), and agree to take part in the Fourth Crusade called by Pope Innocent III (see 1199).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354902191#Europe", "title": "1200", "revid": 1354902191, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1202, "year_label": "1202 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April", "text": "April–May – The bulk of the Crusader army gathers at Venice, although with far smaller numbers than expected: about 12,000 men (4–5,000 knights and 8,000 soldiers) instead of 33,500 men. Several contingents decide to make their own way to the Holy Land by different routes. A Crusader fleet, sailing from Flanders, carrying supplies for the Counts Baldwin IX and his brother Henry of Flanders, winters in Marseille, but is slowed by adverse weather. Later it sails on to the Middle East, along with other contingents from southern France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369187490#Fourth_Crusade", "title": "1202", "revid": 1369187490, "section": "Events › By place › Fourth Crusade"}}, {"year": 1205, "year_label": "1205 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Theodore I Laskaris is proclaimed Byzantine emperor (or basileus), formally founding the Empire of Nicaea, after repelling the invasions of rivals David Komnenos and Manuel Maurozomes into his domains. His appointment is an open challenge to the legitimacy of the Latin emperor Baldwin I, who rules over large parts of the former Byzantine Empire and regards Theodore as a usurper.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357624697#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1205", "revid": 1357624697, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1205, "year_label": "1205 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "probable – Baldwin I, emperor of the Latin Empire (b. 1172)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357624697#Deaths", "title": "1205", "revid": 1357624697, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1206, "year_label": "1206 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Henry of Flanders is crowned as the second emperor of the Latin Empire, in the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople, after hearing of the death of his brother, Emperor Baldwin I, who has died in prison at Baldwin's Tower in Tsarevets Castle, in Veliko Tarnovo (after being captured by the Bulgarians in 1205). Upon Henry's ascension as Latin emperor, the Lombard nobles of the Kingdom of Thessalonica refuse to give him allegiance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267066460#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1206", "revid": 1267066460, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1225, "year_label": "1225 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 30", "text": "May 30 – King Louis VII of France meets in Péronne with a hermit who claims to be Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and the Latin Emperor of Constantinople, who had not been seen in public since being taken a prisoner in Bulgaria. Concluding that the hermit is an impostor, King Louis gives the man three days to leave France, and the \"false Baldwin\" instead leads a rebellion, eventually losing and being executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333322984#April_–_June", "title": "1225", "revid": 1333322984, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1237, "year_label": "1237 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "At the urging of King Louis IX of France, Thomas II marries Joanna, widow of Ferdinand of Flanders, and daughter of the late Latin Emperor Baldwin I. Thomas becomes count of Flanders (or Jure uxoris).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300110077#Europe", "title": "1237", "revid": 1300110077, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}