And they had taken
some thirty of his knights, and thought to come to Constantinople; and
they had left him, you must know, in great peril. But they found the
country raised against them, and were discomfited; and the Greeks took
them, and afterwards handed them over to the King of Wallachia, who
had their heads cut off. And you must know that they were but little
pitied by the people, because they had behaved in such evil sort to
one whom they were bound to treat quite otherwise.
And when the other knights of Renier de Trit saw that he
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was thus abandoned by those who were much more bound to him than
themselves, they felt the less shame, and some eighty together left
him, and departed by another way. So Renier of Trit remained among the
Greeks with very few men, for he had not more than fifteen knights at
Philippopolis and Stanimac-which is a very strong castle which he
held, and where he was for a long time besieged.
BALDWIN UNDERTAKES THE SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE
We will speak no further now of Renier of Trit but return to the
Emperor Baldwin, who is in Constantinople, with but very few people,
and greatly angered and much distracted. He was waiting for Henry his
brother, and all the people on the other side of the straits, and the
first who came to him from the other side of the straits came from
Nicomedia, viz.: Macaire of Sainte-Menehould, and Matthew of
Wallincourt, and Robert of Ronsoi, and with them full a hundred
knights.
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