Geoffry the Marshal, with whom he was on very good terms, spoke to him
very sharply, reproaching him with the fashion in which he had taken
the land of the emperor and besieged the emperor's people in
Adrianople, and that without apprising those in Constantinople, who
surely would have obtained such redress as was due if the emperor had
done him any wrong. And the marquis disculpated himself much, and said
it was because of the wrong the emperor had done him that he had acted
in such sort.
So wrought Geoffry, the Marshal of Champagne, with the help of God,
and of the barons who were in the confidence of the marquis, and who
loved the said Geoffry well, that the marquis assured him he would
leave the matter in the hands of the Doge of Venice, and of Count
Louis of Blois and Chartres, and of Conon of B?thune, and of Geoffry
of Villehardouin, the Marshal-all of whom well knew what was the
covenant made between himself and the emperor. So was a truce
established between those in the camp and those in the city.
And you must know that Geoffry the Marshal, and Manasses of l'Isle,
were right joyously looked upon, both by those in the camp and those
in the city, for very strongly did either side wish for peace. And in
such measure as the Franks rejoiced, so were the Greeks dolent,
because right willingly would they have seen the Franks quarrelling
and at war. Thus was the siege of Adrianople raised, and the marquis
returned with all his people to Demotica, where was the empress his
wife.
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