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Summer 1125: Constantinople Falls


Pope Strenna's backside has hardly warmed the Papal Throne when news arrives that a Muslim Jihad has captured Constantinople. Speculation begins to circulate as to whether this will trigger another Crusade.

In the meantime the Pope announces that France, Portugal and Milan are once more reconciled with the Catholic Church and that its war with Milan is over. However, there appears to no such clemency for The Holy Roman Emperor who, as far as Scotland is aware, remains an outcast.