[60] Greg. VII. 8, pp. 254-8; Chalc., I, p. 19; Jorga, op. cit., i. 160, speaks of ‘die schöne mit Perlen und Edelsteinen geschmückte Krone’ of Michael. Was it not rather a turban? See Hammer, i. 364, note x.
[61] ‘The emperor of Constantinople fears the anger of the Khan of Kapdjak and is eager to disarm him by protestations of submission and efforts to obtain a continuance of the truce. Things have always been on this footing since the children of Djenghiz Khan began to reign in this country’: Shebabeddin, Paris MS., fol. 70 rº.
[62] Ducange, Hist. de Constantinople sous les Emp. Français, map section, p. 46.
[63] Ducange, Hist. de Constantinople sous les Emp. Français, map section, p. 54.
[64] The Venetians were jealous of the growing power of Genoa and the hostility shown to Venetian merchants at Constantinople. See Appendix B. Also Heyd, Handelsgeschichte des Mittelalters, i. 366.
[65] Ducange, ibid., p. 57; Buchon, Collection des chroniques nat. fr., p. lv.
[66] Muralt, Chronographie Byzantine, ii. 493, no. 21, n.
[67] A rabble without arms actually arrived at Marseilles. The ships were prevented from leaving Brindisi by a storm. Cf. Iacomo Bosio, Della Historia della Religione, ii. 1. At the very moment this effort to start a crusade was ending in dismal failure, the two kings on whose behalf it was planned were engaged in a bitter quarrel! Clement V, Epistola Comm. vii. 773-4, 787.
[68] Les Giustiniani, Dynastes de Chios, Vlasto’s French translation of Hopf’s great monograph, p. 8.
[69] Mas-Latrie, Histoire de Chypre, ii. 602.