Why didn't the pope help the Byzantines against the Turks?
>>3089029
Because the last time a Crusade went up versus the Ottomans, they got tremendously blown the fuck out pretty hard, Byzantium was effectively KMAGYOYO'd by the Latin West.
>>3089029
He did, but the boats came late to the party after Constantinople had already fallen.
>>3089029
He would probably backstab "us" anyway.
>>3089061
This.
"Since the Battle of Roncesvalles when [all] twelve peers of France were slain, Christendom received not so great a damage."
-Froissart.
>>3089109
dont forget the crusade of Mohacs and Varna, the pope already did everything he could to mediate the various squabbling catholic kingdom to unite against the ottomans, the fall of constantinople was the byzantine own fault
>what is the crusade of nicopolis
>what is the crusade of varna
>what is mohacs
>what is the holy league
>what is lepanto
>le catholics didnt help byzantine against the turks meme
ungrateful orthocucks should be gassed
>>3089098
>Backstab us
Stop murdering latin Christians and you wouldn't have gotten sacked by Venetian Jews and Franks Mr. Poupolopodopoulus
>>3089029
>Western Christians """""""""HELPING""""""""" the Byzantines
lmao who're u fucking kidding m8 any more "help" from the pope and Byzantium would've fallen sooner
ITT : Americans roleplaying as an unrelated ethnicity
>>3090381
/board
>>3089109
>killing random villagers
SHAMEFUR DISPRAY
>>3089483
>what is mohacs
>>what is the holy league
>what is lepanto
All after the fall of the Roman empire.
>>3089483
>what is mohacs
>what is the holy league
>what is lepanto
All after the fall of the Roman empire.
>>3089029
The popes dreamed of crusading again, but mobilizing Christians to fight international crusades became increasingly difficult as the middle ages drew to a close.