When in 1182 regency of empress mother Maria of Antioch , an ethnical French notorious for the favoritism shown to Latin merchants and the big aristocratic land-owners , was deposed by Andronikos I Komnenos on the wake of popular support , the new emperor allowed mobs to massacre hated foreigners . Henceforth Byzantine foreign policy was invariably perceived as sinister and anti-Latin in the West
massacre hated foreigners
Massacre of the Latins
East–West Schism