01-12-2022, 01:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-12-2022, 08:32 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
Yes. Zara was Catholic, under the supposed protection of both the Church and the King of Hungary who was a crusader himself, so crusaders sacking it would probably have been a big embarrassment to the Pope. Constantinople, by contrast, was Eastern Orthodox, Christian but not Catholic.