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The Chronicle of Geoffry De Villehardouin
The Chronicle of Geoffry De Villehardouin Author:Geoffroi de Villehardouin Subtitle: Marshal of Champagne and Romania, Concerning the Conquest of Constantinople, by the French and Venetians, Anno M.cc.iv. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: W. Pickering Subjects: Crusades Istanbul (Turkey) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has n... more »o illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A. D. shore immediately opposite to Constantinople, under the command of Machaire de St. Menehold, assisted by Matthew de Valincourt, and Robert de Honqoi, who marched to the city of Nicomedia,1 which is seated upon a gulph of the sea, full two days' journey from Constantinople. When the Greeks heard of their approach, they abandoned the city; and the pilgrims possessing themselves of it, garrisoned and fortified it, and from thence began to make inroads over the country in its vicinity. There was a certain Greek lord called Theodore Lascaris, m who had espoused a daughter of that emperor Alexius, who had torn out his brother's eyes, and had . himself been driven by the Franks from Constantinople. Theodore, claiming the succession in his wife's right, made war upon the Franks beyond the straight, wherever they were established. But the emperor Baldwin still re- 1 Nicomedia, now Ismid, a city of Bithynia, on the shore of the Propontis, was founded by Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, 262 years B. C. It has been frequently visited by earthquakes; but its climate it delicious, and the richest fruits, particularly 'melons, which rival those of Persia, are produced in its vicinity. It now . contains :a population of thirty thousand souls. m Theodore Lascaris had married Ann, one of the three daughters of the emperor Alexius Angelus. She had before been the wife of Isaac Comuenus, who died in captivity among the B...« less