Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Wani juyi a yadda bangarorin biyu suka ga juna shine watakila kisan kiyashi na Latins a Constantinople
a shekara ta 1182. Kisan ya biyo bayan saukar Maria na Antakiya, 'yar gimbiya Norman-Frankish (saboda haka "Latin") wacce ke mulki a matsayin mai mulki ga ɗanta jariri Sarkin sarakuna Alexios II Komnenos. Maria ba ta da mashahuri sosai saboda nuna son kai da aka nuna wa 'yan kasuwar Italiya a lokacin mulkin mallaka da kuma shahararrun bukukuwan faduwarta da' yan kasar Constantinople suka yi da sauri suka zama tarzoma da kisan gilla. Wannan abin da ya faru da kuma mummunan rahotanni na waɗanda suka tsira ya jawo tashin hankali na addini a Yammacin duniya, wanda ya kai ga ramuwar gayya da William II na Sicily ya yi wa Tasalonika, birni na biyu mafi girma a daular. Misali na ra'ayin mutanen Yammacin duniya a lokacin shi ne rubuce-rubucen William na Taya, wanda ya kwatanta "al'ummar Helenawa" a matsayin "ƙungiya ta macizai, kamar maciji a cinya ko kuma linzamin kwamfuta a cikin kabad da ke neman baƙi".