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Often appears with: siege and fortification · crime and punishment · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · severity after victory · serenianus killed · renier of trit abandoned · reginald and giles betray renier · marcellus · conquest, plunder, and captives · baldwin and count louis siege adrianople
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“And you must know that they were but little pitied by the people, because they had behaved in such evil sort to one whom they were bound to treat quite otherwise.” Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the C · insight
“For amid arms and trumpets the equality of every one's chance makes danger seem lighter; and often the might of martial valour obtains what it aims at.” Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus · insight
Renier of Trit at Philippopolis is abandoned by his son, brother, and others, who attempt to reach Constantinople but are defeated and handed to the King of Wallachia for execution; Baldwin later consults Count Louis and they besiege Adrianople.
Now does this book relate a great marvel: for Renier of Trit, who was at Philippopolis, a good nine days’ journey from Constantinople, with at least one hundred and twenty knights, was deserted by Reginald his son, and Giles his brother, and James of Bondies, who was his nephew, and Achard of Verdun, who had his daughter to wife. And they had taken some thirty of his knights, and thought to come to Constantinople; an…
Marcellus kills the imprisoned Serenianus, then is defeated and executed after his usurpation; the war ends, Procopius’s head is sent west, and Procopius’s former opponents face harsh sentences.
by pleading his relationship to Constantine, would at a small cost be easily won over to support him, and also because he was ignorant of what had happened in Illyricum. 4. While these alarming events were taking place, Equitius, having learnt by trustworthy reports from his scouts that the whole stress of the war was now to be found in Asia, passed through the Succi, and made a vigorous attempt to take Philippopoli…