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Location: Les Rues-des-Vignes Nord-Pas-de-Calais France

The crusaders of the Latin Empire of …

Years: 1225 - 1225

The crusaders of the Latin Empire of Constantinople had been decisively defeated by the Bulgarian Emperor Kaloyan in the battle of Adrianople (1205).

In 1225, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, self-proclaimed despot of Epirus, proclaims himself emperor in a direct challenge to the identical claim of Nicaean emperor John III.

Nicaean forces dispatched by John to fight Epirus lose at Adrianople in Thrace, and Theodore takes possession of the city.