When
the people of Theodore Lascaris, and his brothers, who formed the
host, heard thereof, they drew back, and passed over the mountain on
the other side, towards Nice. And the emperor encamped by Nicomedia in
a very fair field that lay beside the river on this side of the
mountain. He had his tents and pavilions pitched; and caused his men
to overrun and harry the land, because the people had rebelled when
they heard that Thierri of Loos, the seneschal, was taken; and the
emperor's men captured much cattle and many prisoners.
TRUCE WITH THEODORE LASCARIS - THE EMPEROR INVADES THE LANDS OF JOHANNIZZA
The Emperor Henry sojoumed after this manner for five days in the
meadow by Nicomedia. And while he was thus sojourning, Theodore
Lascaris took messengers, and sent them to him, asking him to make a
truce for two years, on condition that the emperor would suffer him to
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Skiza and the fortress of the church of St. Sophia of Nicomedia, while
he, on his side, would yield up all the prisoners taken in the last
victory, or at other times of whom he had a great many in his land.
Now the emperor took council with his people; and they said that they
could not maintain two wars at the same time, and that it was better
to suffer loss as proposed than suffer the loss of Adrianople, and the
land on the other side of the straits; and moreover that they.would
(by agreeing to this truce) cause division between their enemies, viz.
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