Gates and Towers
Artisans and clerics serving the palace and the Patriarchate generally resided in the Asenova quarter below the hill, and entered Tsarevets via the Asenova Gate halfway along the western ramparts; foreign merchants, invited to settle here by Tsar Asen II, had their own entrance, the "Frankish" or Frenkhisar Gate near the southern end of the massif. Rapidly becoming a regional power, the Second Kingdom attacked and defeated the first Latin emperor of the East, Baldwin of Flanders, in 1205, the former emperor ending his days as a prisoner in the bastion overlooking the Frenkhisar Gate, thereafter known as Baldwin's Tower . No one knows exactly how Baldwin met his death. According to one fanciful legend, he resisted the advances of the Bulgarian queen, who promptly accused him of attempted rape and had him executed. Twenty years after Baldwin's capture, however, a hermit emerged in Flanders claiming to be the former emperor. Despite attracting a coterie of followers, the pretender was declared an imposter and put to death.
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