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INDEX 419 to the crusading army, 291 ; appeals to the army, 292 ; condemns the expe- dition to Constantinopks 294 ; his in- dignation at the (irst attack on Constan- tinople, 388 ; replies to the Emperor Baldwin's letter, 390 ; denounces the conduct of the conquerors, 391; his anger against the Venetians, 392 ; rep- rimands Cardinal Peter Capuano, 394 ; reproaches Boniface, 395; asks the Russians to submit to the Roman See, 396 ; tone of his letters relative to the conquest, 407. Iran, the term, 15 note. Isaac, a pretender, 101. Isaac Comnenos, Sebastocrator, in posses- sion of Cyprus, 84, 92 ; murder of his sureties by Andronicos I., 84 ; refuses submission to Isaac II., 98 ; imprisoned by Richard I., 98, 132 ; attempts to ob- tain the imperial throne, 110; his of- fences against the English king, 132. Isaac II. makes an alliance with Saladin, 47,128; his war with the Wallachs, 60, 93, 94 ; defends Nicrea against An- dronicos I., 83 ; supposed prediction of a soothsayer concerning him, 86, 87 ; kills Hagiochristophorides, 87 ; pro- claimed emperor by the people. 87 ; yields Andronicos to popular fury, 91 ; his character, 91, 102; his difficulties with the Sicilians, 92 ; his conversation with his prisoner Count Baldwin, 92, 93 ; defeat of his army by the Wal- lachs, 94 ; quells the revolt of Branas, 95-97 ; despatches an expedition to Cyprus against Isaac Comnenos, 98 ; marches against the revolted Wallachs and Bulgarians, 99,103 ; attempts upon the throne during his reign, 100, 101 ; his misgovernmeut, 102, 103 ; deposed and imprisoned by his brother Alexis, 104; his treaties with the Venetians, 254, 256 ; restored to the throne, 319 ; confirms the contract between his son Alexis and the Crusaders, 321 ; his condition after the restoration, 329; his death, 337. Isabella, wife of Humphrey of Thoron, married to Conrad of Montferrat, 130, 131 note. Italian colonies in Constantinople, 161 ; jealousies among them, 164. Italian pirates, ravages by, 171. Ivan, a Wallachian, revolt of, 107. Jerusalem captured by the Crusaders, 41 ; by Saladin, 47. Jesus Christ contrasted with Mahomet, 18, 19 ; letters of, to Abgarus, 89. Jews, condition of, in Constantinople, 184. 185. John, King of Bulgaria, seeks coronation from Pope Innocent III., 61. Kaikhosro, Sultan of Iconium, allures emigrants from Greece, 111 ; becomes a citizen of Constantinople, 112. Kalomodios, a banker, 222. Kanabos, Nicolas, chosen emperor, 336. Kars attacked by Togrul, 26 ; ceded to Alparslan, 27. Kilidji Arslan I., Sultan, 37. Kilidji Arslan II., led prisoner to Con- stantinople, 45 ; offers assistance to Barbarossa's Crusaders, 48, 127 ; plun- ders Thrace, 93. Lapardas, general, deprived of sight, 82. Lascaris, Theodore, 318; tries to rally the citizens after the capture of the city, 352. Latins, settlements of, in the empire, 161 ; their number in Constantinople in 1180, 140 ; their quarters in the city, 183. Latin colonists, attacks upon the, 78, 97, 140, 170; take sides in the dynastic struggles, 78, 170; their violence tow- ards the Greeks on the capture of the city, 353. Latin language, 3, 145; always under- stood in seaports, 161. Leo the Deacon, his account of Swendo- slav's frecbooting expedition, 155. Leo IL, King, revival of Armenian na- tional life under, 2; helps Frederic Barbarossa's Crusaders, 49. Lingua Franca, the, 161. Louis VII., crusade of, 123. Louis IX., his punning allusion to the Tartars, 15 note. Macedonia, settlement of Wallachs in, 58. Mahomet, character of, more attractive to barbarous men than that of Jesus, 19. Mahometanism, early successes of, 17, 18 ; explanation of its founder's influ- ence, 18, 19; its teaching contrasted with that of Christianit;, 20,21 ; makes its converts fichters, 20 ; destructive of family life, 23.