[788] Villehardouin intimates that Murzuphlis put Alexius to death immediately after having seized the crown; and the Chronicle in the Rouchy dialect, No. 148, Bibliothéque de l’Arsenal, says, “Et ne demeura gaires après que Morcuffle estrangla le josne empereur Alexes en la prison.”
[789] Nicetas.
[790] Ducange; Villehardouin.
[791] Villehardouin; Ducange.
[792] Gunther; Ducange.
[793] Villehardouin.
[794] Ducange.
[795] 2d April, 1204.
[796] Nicetas.
[797] Gest. Inn. iii.