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How did Baldwin II seek funding?

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Baldwin traveled in Western Europe seeking financial and military aid for his precarious throne (see Constantinople Latin Empire of ). To obtain funds he sold a large part of the True Cross and other sacred relics to Louis IX of France and at one time pawned his son to the Venetians.

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