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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Do you not realize that the emperor was collaborating with the Sultan? The pilgrims were being attacked by supposed rogues and brigands all along the way. Empire towns were closed to them. The Byzantines displayed themselves as being hostile to the Franks, who they were jealous and nervous of.
And the thing that kicked off the first sacking was the Dutch pilgrims found a synagogue or Mosque being allowed to operate, so they breached it and started killing the people inside. Not only this, but some 100 years prior, the Greeks killed nearly every Latin inside the city and the surrounding countryside.
Everything the Greeks got, they deserved.
And according to Gibbons there was one there prior to the sacking of the city.
I think it was mostly the franks, honestly. They managed to piss off sicilians to the point they started what was essentially a world war. Theyre the same idiots who decided to sack Constantinople to install a puppet regime when the Pope had ordered them to fight muzzies.