Chapter 142: Visigothic Orthodoxy, Eastern Roman Barbarians (I)

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Not to mention François's tragic experience in Sardinia, but also to pay attention to another unlucky man.

It was this - Andres Palaiologos, nephew of Constantine XI and the last Eastern Roman emperor of Constantinople.

In 1453, on May 29, Constantinople fell, and Constantine XI died heroically as the last mayor of Constantinople. There is no doubt that he will be a man who will go down in history and shine for thousands of years, and will be unparalleled in the universe...... of the mayor.

After his death, the mayor rightfully became a saint of the Greek Orthodox Church, that is, the Orthodox Church.

Folklore has it that the saint was not killed by the Ottomans, but was descended by an angel and turned into a marble statue, buried in the land under the golden gates of the walls of Constantinople. And when the Christians conquered the city again, Constantine XI would rise from the ground and return to the throne. Until modern times, composers have written an elegy to His Majesty the Emperor based on this legend.

Unfortunately, according to Ferdinand's knowledge of the history, this can be falsified. Because when the Treaty of Sèvres was signed in 1920, when the combined forces of Britain, France and Italy occupied Constantinople...... Ahem, nothing happened.

Although Kemal was called Ataturk, he only defeated the Greeks in land battles, and the navy really didn't have any means, and of course the army was just over the British and French armies, so the entire "Turkish War of Independence" was fought against the Greeks and Armenians in Asia Minor, and none of Kemal's soldiers could cross the Sea of Marmara.

Although it has been more than two years to resurrect, His Majesty Constantine XI has not returned to the throne, is it because the Anglican faith in England and the Catholic faith in France and Italy are all Western heretical Christianity, so Constantine XI cannot be favored? This is not right, this majesty honestly knelt down and promised the union of the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, although the citizens opposed it and did not succeed, but compared to the peaceful people of Constantinople, the emperor's decision power is the most important......

It was not until the Peace of Lausanne was signed and the Christians withdrew, that it seemed that the saint could declare that he had cooled down, both in reality and in legend......

In short, after some looting and destruction by the Ottoman army, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II became the owner of the Byzantine capital and renamed it Istanbul.

Istanbul became the new capital of the Ottoman Empire, and at the same time, Mehmed II proclaimed himself Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, taking over the banner of the Eastern Roman Empire – and the entire Roman Empire.

What are the three teachings of Abraham...... To put it mildly, isn't it just that the three texts are copied from each other, and they also copied out the level, copied the realm, copied the faith, copied the genre, and the plagiarism ability is unparalleled.

Therefore, there is no problem in copying the title of emperor.

Besides, before Constantine established Christianity as the state religion, the Roman Empire was a universal empire where all religions coexisted, barbarians admired it, all nations bowed down, the Arab Empire rose, the Ottoman Empire rose, although it was torn with Byzantium and Western European Christendom, but it does not mean that they want to destroy the "Roman Empire" and "Roman civilization" (the defeat also has a face on behalf of the Roman Empire?). ）。

On the contrary, they all saw themselves as the heirs of the Roman Empire and Roman culture, and it is worth mentioning that the Arabs did contribute a lot to the preservation of ancient Greco-Roman culture.

Therefore, under the banner of the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire was eager to compete with Europe and Christian civilization for "orthodoxy" – and the territorial domination that "legitimacy" represents, which was the most important thing, and finally had to rely on guns to achieve it.

Of course, this self-proclaimed successor to the Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Emperor is certainly not recognized by Europeans.

Moreover, after the death of Constantine XI, the last mayor of Constantinople at that time, the capital of the Byzantine Empire fell, and the position of mayor of Constantinople was indeed no longer available. However, although the mayor of Constantinople could never be restored, the de jure heir to the throne of the Byzantine Empire remained, and the Byzantine Empire retained the last small piece of territory......

This was the last vestige of the previous generation, the Despotism of the Morea in the Peloponnese.

This can be traced back to the Fourth Crusade launched in 1202 by Pope Innocent III, which was an ambitious crusade that led the city-states of France and northern Italy, led by Theopold III, Count of Champagne of the Kingdom of France, and aimed at Ayyubid Egypt and would later attack Jerusalem from Egypt. However, in fact, after the expedition was launched, the Crusaders had to rely on the Venetian fleet for the transport of troops across the Mediterranean - and they did not have enough money to pay the Venetians to help them cross Egypt at sea......

At this time, Enrico Dandolo, the shrewd blind governor of Venice, seized the opportunity of history to use the Crusaders to expand his own interests and those of Venice, and he pulled in the huge merchant fleet of Venice and the Crusaders to accompany them, assuring the Crusaders that Venice could help them solve the problem of money and food - but since the Crusader knights had no money to repay, then help Venice capture some land as compensation! For example, the city of Zara in the Kingdom of Hungary, so the Crusaders actually attacked the city of Zara, even though the Kingdom of Hungary was Catholic......

At this time, the crusade was seriously crooked, but it can be barely explained as a twist and turn in the process of the victory of the revolution...... But soon, in 1199, Alexios the Younger, who had fled to Germany with his father, came to the door and asked Enrico Dandolo to help him regain the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire......

God can't eat it, God can't exchange it for a gold coin, and defeat is an Orthodox heresy anyway, "heretics are more hateful than heretics"...... Therefore, Enrico Dandolo instigated the crusader lord to go to Egypt to eat sand and fight the Mamluk cavalry, which is not easy to mess with, it is better to stop the defeat and grab a big wave of ......

The Crusaders thought about it too! His Holiness is also vigorous in the fight against the Orthodox Church! The Crusaders, with the help of Venetian ships, turned to attack Constantinople and finally captured it on April 13, 1204.

Then came looting, vandalism and bloody massacres, which lasted three days.