I wonder if the source of the confusion is this sort of terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire it s

I wonder if the source of the confusion is this sort of terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire it sort of sounds like a synonym for Roman, it was one of the (curiously few!) conquests of Constantinople, etc. It just wasn't actually Roman anything.