[25] The Holy Gates are in the middle of the Iconostasis or screen which separates the bema or chancel from the nave.
[26] Raynoldus and Vadingus.
[27] Ch. v. 9. It should be remembered that Pachymer had himself joined the Latin Church.
[28] Pach. v. 18.
[29] Pach. vi. 24 and 25.
[30] I have relied mostly for this account of the attempt at Union on Pachymer (I agree with Krumbacher’s high estimate of the value of this author’s history):
‘Pachymeres ragt durch seine Bildung und litterarische Thätigkeit über seine Zeitgenossen empor und kann als der grösste byzantinische Polyhistor des 13. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet werden. In ihm erblickt man deutlich die Licht- und Schattenseiten des Zeitalters der Paläologen. Es fehlt dem Pachymeres nicht an Gelehrsamkeit, Originalität und Witz.’ Geschichte der Byzantinischen Litteratur, p. 289. Pachymer was himself a Greek, born in Nicaea but a member of the Latin Church. He deals with the doings of the emperor and the Greek ecclesiastics in a fair spirit. His History is essentially that of his own times and covers the period from 1261 to 1308.
[31] Pach. part 2, ii. 18.
[32] The following table of descent will illustrate the text:
| Baldwin II., emperor of Constantinople, fled the city 1261, died 1272. | |||
| │ | |||
| Philip, married Beatrice, daughter of Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, | |||
| │ died 1288. | |||
| │ | |||
| Catherine, married in 1301 Charles of Valois, son of Philip III. of France; | |||
| │ Charles died 1308. | |||
| │ | |||
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| John, died without issue. | Catherine married Philip of Tarentum, son of Charles of Sicily. Philip died 1322: Catherine in 1346. | Joanna | Elizabeth |