SKIZA AGAIN BESIEGED BY THEODORE LASCARIS - THE EMPEROR DELIVERS THE CITY
The emperor, with as many men as he possessed, had prepared to go to
Adrianople, when tidings came, very grievous, that Escurion, who was
admiral of the galleys of Theodore Lascaris, had entered with
seventeen galleys into the straits of Abydos, in the channel of St.
George, and come before Skiza, where Peter of Bracieux then was, and
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Orl?ans; and that the said Escurion was besieging the city by sea,
while Theodore Lascaris was besieging it by land. Moreover, the people
of the land of Skiza had rebelled against Peter of Bracieux, as also
those of Marmora, and had wrought him great harm, and killed many of
his people.
When these tidi . ngs came to Constantinople, they were greatly
dismayed. Then did the Emperor Henry take council with his men, and
his barons, and the Venetians also; and they said that if they did not
succour Peter of Bracieux, and Payen of Orl?ans, they were but dead
men, and the land would be lost. So they armed fourteen galleys in all
diligence, and set in them the Venetians of most note, and all the
barons of the emperor.
In one galley entered Conon of B?thune and his people; in another
Geoffry of Villehardouin and his people; in the third Macaire of
Sainte-Menehould and his people; in the fourth Miles the Brabant in
the fifth Anscau of Cayeux; in the sixth Thierri of Loos, who was
seneschal of Roumania; m the seventh William of Perchoi; and in the
eighth Eustace the Emperor's brother.
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