In this company was a
certain count from Lombardy named Gerard, who came from the land of
the marquis, and Odo of Ham, who was lord of a castle called Ham in
Vermandois, and John of Maseroles, and many others to the number of
twenty-five knights, whom the book does not name. And they went away
so fast after the discomfiture, which had taken place on the Thursday
evening, that they came to Constantinople on the Saturday night,
though it was ordinarilyagoodfivedays'journey. Andtheytoldthenews to
the Cardinal Peter of Capua, who was there by the authority of
Innocent Pope of Rome, and to Conon of B?thune, who guarded the city,
and to Miles the Brabant, and to the other good men in the city. And
you must know that these were greatly affeared, and thought of a
certainty that all the rest, who had been left before Adrianople, were
lost, for they had no news of them.
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PETER OF BRACIEUX AND PAYEN OF ORLEANS MEET THE RETREATING HOST
Now will we say no more about those at Constantinople, who were in
sore trouble, but go back to the Doge of Venice and Geoffry the
Marshal, who marched all the night that they left Adrianople, till the
dawn of the following day; and then they came to a city called
Pamphyle. Now listen and you shall hear how adventures befall as God
wills: for in that city had lain during the night, Peter of Bracieux
and Payen of Orldans, and all the men belonging to the land of Count
Louis, at least a hundred very good knights and one hundred and forty
mounted sergeants, and they were coming from the other side of the
straits to join the host at Adrianople.
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