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Quotation from Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey de Villehardouin

“because covetousness, which is the root of all evil, let and hindered them.”

Geoffrey de Villehardouin

Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Division of the Spoil, trans. Frank T. Marzials

Portrait of Geoffrey de Villehardouin

Explaining why some crusaders failed to bring their booty to the common stock.

Citation: "because covetousness, which is the root of all evil, let and hindered them." — Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Division of the Spoil, trans. Frank T. Marzials. (id villehardouin-conquest-of-constantinople-q7)

Virtues: Temperance, Justice

Portrait: Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Louis Delaistre d’après Claude Jacquand, Public domain.

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