Paul, who had long been in bed, sick of the gout,
made an end and died; and this caused great sorrow, and was a great
mishap, and much was he bewept by his men and by his friends. He was
buried with great honour in the church of our Lord St. George of
Mangana.
Now Count Hugh in his lifetime had held a castle called Demotica,
which was very strong and rich, and he had therein some of his knights
and sergeants. The Greeks, who had made oath to the King of Wallachia
that they would kill and betray the Franks, betrayed them in that
castle, and slaughtered many and took many captive. Few escaped, and
those who escaped went flying to a city called Adrianople, which the
Venetians held at that time.
Not long after the Greeks in Adrianople rose in arms; and such of our
men as were therein, and had been set to guard it, came out in great
peril, and left the city. Tidings thereof came to the Emperor Baldwin
of Constantinople, who had but few men with him, he and Count Louis of
Blois. Much were they then troubled and dismayed. And thenceforth,
from day to day, did evil tidings begin to come to them, that
everywhere the Greeks were rising, and that wherever the Greeks found
Franks occupying the land, they killed them.
And those who had left Adrianople, the Venetians and the others who
were there, came to a city called Tzurulum, that belonged to the
Emperor Baldwin. There they found William of Blanvel, who kept the
place for the emperor.
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