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.
Locations
People
Groups
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Bulgarians (South Slavs)
- Bulgarian Empire (Second), or Empire of Vlachs and Bulgars
- Latin Empire of Constantinople (“Romania”)
- Nicaea, Empire of
- Epirus, Despotate of
Topics
- Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
- Crusades, The
- Byzantine Civil War of 1222-42
- Latin Empire-Byzantine Empire War, Second
