The van was commanded by Geoffry, the Marshal of
Roumania and Champagne, and with him was Macaire of Sainte-Menehould.
The second division was under Conon of B?thune and Miles the Brabant;
the third under Payen of Orl?ans and Peter of Bracieux; the fourth was
under Anseau of Cayeux; the fifth under Baldwin of Beauvoir; the sixth
under Hugh of Beaumetz; the seventh under Henry, brother of the
Emperor Baldwin; the eighth, with the Flemings, under Walter of
Escornai; Thierri of Loos, who was seneschal, commanded the
rear-guard.
So they rode for three days, all in order; nor did any host ever
advance seeking battle so perilously. For they were in peril on two
accounts; first because they were so few, and those they were about to
attack so many; and secondly, because they did not believe the Greeks,
with whom they had just made peace, would help them heartily. For they
stood in fear lest, when need arose, the Greeks would go over to
Johannizza, who, as you have already heard, had been so near to taking
Demotica.
JOHANNIZZA RETREATS, FOLLOWED BY THE CRUSADERS
When Johannizza heard that the Franks were coming, he did not dare to
abide, but burned his engines of war, and broke up his camp. So he
departed from Demotica; and you must know that this was accounted by
all the world as a
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great miracle. And Henry, the Regent of the empire, came on the fourth
day (28th June) before Adrianople, and pitched his cainp near the
river of Adrianople, in the fairest meadows in the world.
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