ABSTRACT
This battle took place in that year in which the Cypriots took Tyre from the Lombards, which was in the year of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ 1242, in the month of July. 1
243 This emperor, who was a most cruel and pitiless man at heart, was very opposed to Holy Church, and persecuted it. For this reason he met a bad end and came to naught, him and his heirs. Amongst the cruelties which he perpetrated is one that I will tell you about.
