And they came on
the set day to the place of meeting in a very fair field, near the
city of Cypsela. The emperor came from one side, and the marquis from
the other, and they met with very great joy; nor is that to be
wondered at, seeing they had not, of a long time, beheld one another.
And the marquis asked the emperor for tidings of his daughter Agnes;
and the emperor told him she was with child, and the marquis was glad
thereof and rejoiced. Then did the marquis become liegeman to the
emperor, and held from him his land, as he had done from the Emperor
Baldwin, his brother. And the marquis gave to Geoffry of
Villehardouin, Marshal of Roumania and Champagne, the city of
Messinopolis, and all its appurtenances, or else that of Seres,
whichever he liked best; and the Marshal became his liegeman, save in
so far as he owed fealty to the emperor of Constantinople.
They sojourned thus in that field for two days, in great joy, and said
that, as God had granted that they should come together, so might they
yet again defeat their enemies. And they made agreement to meet at the
end of the summer, in the month of October, with all their forces, in
the meadow before the city of Adrianople, and make war against the
King of Wallachia. So they separated joyous and well content. The
marquis went to Messinopolis, and the Emperor Henry towards
Constantinople.
BONIFACE IS KILLED IN A BATTLE AGAINST THE BULGARIANS
When the marquis had come to Messinopolis, he did not remain there
more than five days before he rode forth, by the advice of the Greeks
of the land, on an expedition to the mountain of Messinopolis, which
was distant a long day's
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