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Events relating to the crusades
A year after succeeding to the throne of England, Richard I sets off east as one of the leaders of the third crusade
The crusaders of the fourth crusade besiege, take and destroy the Christian city of Constantinople
Many of the treasures adorning the church of San Marco in Venice are loot taken from Constantinople during the fourth crusade
Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic
Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades