Then
did the emperor take council, and it was decided that the marriage
should be ratified on either side. So the envoy, Otho of La Roche,
returned to Salonika.
The emperor had reassembled his men, who had gone to place in safe
holding the booty taken at Veroi. And he marched day by day from
Adrianople till he came to the land
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of Johannizza, the King of Wallachia and Bulgaria. They came to a city
called Ferme, and took it, and entered in, and won much booty. They
remained there for three days, and overran all the land, got very much
spoil, and destroyed a city called Aquilo.
On the fourth day they departed from Ferme, which was a city fair and
well situated, with hot water springs for bathing, the finest in the
world; and the emperor caused the city to be burned and destroyed, and
they carried away much spoil, in cattle and goods. Then they rode day
by day till they came back to the city of Adrianople; and thev
sojoumed in the land till the feast of All Saints (1st November 1206),
when they could no longer carry on the war because of the winter. So
Henry and all his barons, who were much aweary of campaigning, turned
their faces towards Constantinople; and he left at Adrianople, among
the Greeks, a man of his named Peter of Radinghem, with ten knights.
THE EMPEROR RESUMES THE WAR AGAINST THEODORE LASCARIS
At that time Theodore Lascaris, who held the land on the other side of
the straits towards Turkey, was at truce with the Emperor Henry; but
that truce he had not kept well, having broken and violated it.
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