Events Tagged: "debt"

Fourth Crusade diverted by Venice - Doge Enrico Dandolo manipulates crusaders' debt to attack Venice's rivals

Henry III accepts Sicilian crown for son Edmund - ruinous papal scheme costs 135,000 marks, triggers constitutional crisis

Statute of Acton Burnell - first English statute dealing with merchant debt, allowing imprisonment of defaulting debtors and seizure of goods

Statute of Merchants (Statute of Westminster II) - strengthens creditor remedies, introduces recognizance procedure for merchant debts

Medici bank begins decline under Piero - bad loans to princes, mismanagement by agents