ABSTRACT
A n d when he had settled all the host, he went with a hundred horsemen to Constantinople to see the Em peror and m y Lady his mother-in-law and his wife, and when he entered Constantinople a great feast was made for him and great honour shown him. And whilst he was at Constantinople, the brother of the Emperor Lantzaura, who was waging war against the Emperor as you have heard before, knew that the Grand Duke had come with all his host and held his cause for lost. And, at once, he sent his messengers to the Emperor and did all the Emperor wished ; and thus the Emperor got, through the Franks, all he wanted in this war.
