[759] November, 1202.
[760] Gunther; Villehardouin.
[761] Ducange; Villehardouin.
[762] Alberic; A. D. 1202.
[763] Villehardouin.
[764] Ducange.
[765] Villehardouin.
[766] Ducange.
[767] Gunther in Canisius.
[768] Mills says, that Innocent issued decrees and bulls against the expedition to Constantinople, and founds his reasoning on a passage of Baluzius: but it is extremely probable that the anger of the Pope was a mere menace of the party opposed to the enterprise rather than an existing fact. Baluzius was not present any more than Ducange; and surely, for every thing where research is concerned, Ducange is the better authority of the two: yet Ducange makes no mention of the opposition of the Pope, and absolutely states that the legate counselled the attack on Constantinople. See Ducange, Hist. de Constantinople sous les Francais.