And
they made thence many forays towards Demotica and the country round
about, where they captured much cattle, and other booty. So the host
remained in those parts till the beginning of winter; and supplies
came to them from Rodosto, and from the sea.
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DESTRUCTION OF PHILIPPOPOLIS BY JOHANNIZZA
Now let us leave speaking of Henry, the Regent of the empire, and
speak of Johannizza, the King of Wallachia and Bulgaria, who had taken
Seres, as you have already heard, and killed by treachery those who
had surrendered to him. Afterwards he had ridden towards Salonika, and
sojoumed thereby a long while, and wasted a great part of tfle land.
The Marquis Boniface of Montferrat was at Salonika, very wroth, and
sorrowing greatly for the loss of his lord the Emperor Baldwin, and
for the other barons, and for his castle of Seres that he had lost,
and for his men.
And when Johannizza saw that he could do nothing more, he retired
towards his own land, with all his force. And the people in
Philippopolis-which belonged to Renier of Trit, for the Emperor
Baldwin had bestowed it upon him-heard tell how the Emperor Baldwin
was lost, and many of his barons, and that the marquis had lost Seres;
and they saw that the relatives of Renier of Trit, and his own son and
his nephew, had abandoned him, and that he had with him but very few
people; and they deemed that the Franks would never be in power again.
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