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Charles d'Anjou having made secure his position in the East, began to prepare a crusade to recover the Latin Empire. Emperor Michael VIII was alarmed and notified King Louis VIII. However Charles mustered an army and went to meet his brother Alphonse de Poitou and his army in Savona. But the death of Alphonse in August, the plague that struck his armies and a sudden storm which tore apart his fleet made Charles to postpone his plans against Michael VIII and eventualy to abandon them giving time to the Byzantine Emperor to incite the Sicelian Vespers and completely neutralise the threat against his throne...
WI Charles launched his attack against the newly revived Byzantine Empire? Was Michael VIII able to deal with him? Is a restoration of Latin Empire plausible with Charles as Emperor?
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