Geoffrey's Crusade 5: Boniface, Baldwin, and the Bulgarians

All good things must end, and even those not so good. With this episode, we bring the Fourth Crusade to something of an end. It's Baldwin and Boniface's rivalry. It's the king of the Bulgarians. It's the long spiral.

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