And with him had come the Armenians of the land, who had
helped him against the Greeks-some twenty thousand with all their
wives and children-for they dared not remain behind.
Then came to him the news, by certain Greeks, who had escaped from the
discomfiture, that his brother the Emperor Baldwin was lost, and Count
Louis, and the other barons. Afterwards came the news of those who had
escaped and were at Rodosto; and these asked him to make all the haste
he could, and come to them. And because he wanted to hasten as much as
he could, and reach them earlier, he left behind the Armenians, who
travelled on foot, and had with them chariots, and their wives and
children; and inasmuch as these could not come on so fast, and he
thought they would travel safely and without hurt, he went forward and
encamped in a village called Cartopolis.
On that very day came thither the nephew of Geoffry the Marshal,
Anseau of Courcelles, whom Geoffry had summoned from the parts of
Macre, Trajanopolis, and the Baie, lands that had been bestowed upon
him; and with Anseau came the people from PhilippoPolis, who had left
Renier of Trit. This company held full a hundred good knights, and
full five hundred mounted sergeants, who all were on their way to
Adrianople to succour the Emperor Baldwin. But tidings had come to
them, as to the others, that the emperor had been defeated, so they
turned to go to Rodosto, and came to encamp at Cartopolis, the village
where Henry, the brother of the Emperor Baldwin, was then encamped.
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