The office continued until the early 13th century with its functions and authority relatively intact, and may possibly have survived into the Latin Empire following the capture of the city in the Fourth Crusade in 1204, being equated in Latin with the "castellanus" of the city. After the reconquest of the city by the Byzantines, however, the office of the Eparch was replaced throughout the Palaiologan period (1261–1453) by several "kephalatikeuontes" (sing. "kephalatikeuōn", κεφαλατικεύων, "headsman"), who each oversaw a district in the now much less populous capital.