De capcione Constantinopolitane urbis.
The Fall of Constantinople
Constantinople falls to the Franks and Venetians through a deceptive fulfillment of prophecy, and Baldwin of Flanders is made emperor.
In the year of our Lord 1200, the city of Constantinople — which had received in its own prophecy that it would not be captured except by an angel — was captured by the Franks and the Venetians, who entered through the wall where an angel had been depicted. The citizens were deceived by the equivocation of the angel. And Baldwin, the count of Flanders, was made emperor there, and the Latins ruled there for fifty-seven years.
A Note on Sources
A citation reference to Ptolemy of Lucca's Martin is provided.
(Ptol. Mart. p. 387.)
Public Penance of Christians
Under Pope Innocent III, Christians engaged in public penance and self-scourging, known in German as 'Geyseiera.'
On the public penance of Christians. In the time of this Pope Innocent, virtually all Christians were in public penance, and because they scourged themselves with whips, they were called in German 'Geyseiera.'
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Anno domini MCC civitas Constantinopolitana, que in prophetia sua habuit, quod non caperetur nisi per angelum, capta est ac Francis et Venetis, qui per murum'\ ubi angelns depictus fuit, intraverunt. Decepti fuerunt cives per equivocacionem angeli. Et factus fuit ibi Baldewinus e comes Flandrensis imperator, et imperaverunt ibi Latini lvii annis. (Ptol Mart. p. 387.) De publica penitencia Cristianorum. « Hujus Innocencii pape tempore quasi omnes Cristiani fuerunt in publica penitencia, et quia flagellis se flagellabant, vocati fuerunt tlieutonice Geyseiera \
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