[50] Pach., V. 9; Gregoras, VII, i, p. 214.
[51] Pach., in Stritter, Memoriae Populorum, iii. 1086-7; D’Ohsson, Histoire des Mongols, iv. 315. Andronicus made a second appeal in 1308, and gave his own sister, Marie, who is known to later Mongol historians as ‘Despina Khatun’, to Mohammed Khodabendah Khan, after Khodabendah’s conversion to Islam: ibid., iv. 536; Hertzberg, Geschichte der Byzantiner und des Osmanischen Reiches, p. 461.
[52] I can find no justification for Howorth’s statement, ‘This alliance seems to have had a restraining influence upon the Turks’, in his History of the Mongols, iii. 464.
[53] See Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, vi. 318, where the date of this momentous event is given as ‘vers 1305’.
[54] Pach., V. 14, pp. 399-400; 21, pp. 410, 417.
[55] Pach., V. 23, pp. 426-8; Greg., VII. 3, p. 221.
[56] Pach., V. 21, p. 423; Greg., loc. cit.
[57] Greg., loc. cit. Cf. Muralt, after Latin authorities, ii. 487.
[58] Pachymeres, Books V, VI, and VII; Gregoras, Book VII, passim, and Phrantzes, Book I; Moncada, Expedicion de los Catalanes; Muntaner, in Bibliothek des lit. Vereins zu Stuttgart, vol. viii. For their later adventures there is an excellent account in Finlay, History of Greece, iv. 146-56.
[59] Andronicus wrote to his empress, urging her not to try to return to Constantinople from Salonika by land: Pach., VII. 12, p. 586; Chalcocondylas (ed. Bonn), I, p. 19.