ABSTRACT

W hat shall I tell you ? En Rocafort, seeing that he had lost the favour of the House of Sicily and Aragon and Mallorca, and also of all Catalonia, approached micer Charles of France and took the oath and made all the Company swear fealty to micer Charles, as their Sovereign ; this proved to his disadvantage and to theirs. And when they had sworn and done homage to En Thibaut de Chépoi for micer Charles, they took the oath to the said micer Thibaut de Chépoi as commander ; he exercised his authority with great urbanity, for he saw he could not do otherwise. What shall I tell you ? When they had taken the oath to En Thibaut he imagined that no one but he would dare to command, but En Rocafort consulted him less than a dog; rather, he had a seal made with the figure of a knight, and a crown of gold, for he intended to be crowned King of Salónica. What