With him
went a great part of the barons; and the others remained to guard the
camp. The Marquis Boniface of Montferrat went with him, and Count Hugh
of St. Paul, and Henry, brother to Count Baldwin of Flanders and
Hainault, and James of Avesnes, and William of Champlitte, and Hugh of
Colerni, and many others whom the book does not here mention by name.
In the camp remained Count Baldwin of Flanders and Hainault, and Count
Louis of Blois and Chartres, and the greater part of the pilgrims of
lesser note.
And you must know that during this progress all the Greeks, on either
side of the straits, came to the Emperor
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Alexius, to do his will and commandment, and did him fealty and homage
as to their lord-all except John, who was King of Wallachia and
Bulgaria. This John was a Wallachian, who had rebelled against. his
father and uncle, and had warred against them for twenty years, and
had won from them so much land that he had become a very wealthy king.
-And be it known to you, that of the land lying on the west side of
the Straits of St. George, he had conquered very nearly the half. This
John did not come to do the will of the emperor, nor to submit himself
to him.
CONFLICT BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND LATINS IN CONSTANTINOPLE-BURNING OF THE CITY
While the Emperor Alexius was away on this progress, there befell a
very grievous misadventure; for a conflict arose between the Greeks
and the Latins who inhabited Constantinople, and of these last there
were many.
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