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The Fourth Crusade ends with the capture and pillage of Constantinople by the Crusaders. Byzantine emperor Alexius Ducas Murtzuphus is killed by the invaders. The new emperor, Alexius I (Grand Comnenus), who founds the Trebizond dynasty, controls only the northern coast of Anatolia at this time.
Theodore I Lascaris, a Byzantine general, forms an eastern empire based at Nicea.
Philip II annexes formerly English-held French provinces, including Normandy.
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