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In 1203 Boniface de Montferrat accept Prince Alexius Comnenus offer of 200000 silver marks and 10000 men in exchange that Crusaders help him topple his uncle Alexius III who had recently deposed Isaakius II... After a few skirmishes outside Constantinople Alexius III lost nerve and fled the city with most of the Imperial Treasury and Alexius Comnenus became Emperor Alexius IV...
However with the Imperial Treasury in the possession of his uncle he found himself short of funds and unable to repay the Crusaders (his heavy taxation returned with 100000 silver marks only half of his debt) and Crusaders followed the venetian advice to capture the city in order to get paid.
WI Alexius III hadnt taken the Treasury with him and Alexius IV was un position to repay his debts to the Crusaders (assuming that the treasury had enough money to produce the 100000 missing silver marks)?
Would the Crusaders took the money and left for Holy Lands? Or greed would lead them to capture the city anyway?
What do u think?