And you must know that within five days' journey from Constantinople
there remained nothing to destroy save only the city of Bizye, and the
city of Selymbria, which were garrisoned by the French. And in Bizye
abode Anseau of Cayeux, with six score knights, and in Salymbria abode
Macaire of Sainte-Menehould with fifty knights; and Henry the brother
of the Emperor Baldwin remained in Constantinople with the remainder
of the host. And you may know that their fortunes were at the lowest,
seeing that outside of Constantinople they had kepl& possession of no
more than these two cities.
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THE GREEKS ARE RECONCILED TO THE CRUSADERS - JOHANNIZZA DESIEGES DEMOTICA
When the Greeks who were in the host with Johannizza - the same who
had yielded themselves up to him, and rebelled against the Franks -
when they saw how he destroyed their castles and cities, and kept no
covenant with them, they held themselves to be but dead men, and
betrayed. They spoke one to another, and said that as Johannizza had
dealt with other cities, so would he deal with Adrianople and
Demotica, when he returned thither, and that if these two cities were
destroyed, then was Roumania for ever lost.
So they took messengers privily, and sent them to Vernas in
Constantinople. And they besought Vernas to cry for pity to Henry, the
brother of the Emperor Baldwin, and to the Venetians, so that they
might make peace with them; and they themselves, in turn, would
restore Adrianople and Demotica to the Franks; and the Greeks would
all turn to Henry; and the Greeks and Franks dwell together in good
accord.
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