[200] Recueil des historiens des Croisades. (Assises de Jérusalem, tome i. p. 325.) [↑]
[201] Prutz, pp. 146–7, 150. [↑]
[202] The prelates of the Holy Land wrote as follows, in 1244, concerning the invasion of the K͟hwarizmians, whom Sultan Ayyūb had called in to assist him in driving out the Crusaders:—“Per totam terram usque ad partes Nazareth et Saphet libere nullo resistente discurrunt, occupantes eandem, et inter se quasi propriam dividentes, per villas et cazalia Christianorum legatos et bajulos præficiunt, suscipientes a rusticis redditus et tributa, quæ Christianis præstare solebant, qui jam Christianis hostes effecti et rebelles dictis Corosminis universaliter adhæserunt.” (Matthei Parisiensis Chronica Majora, ed. H. R. Luard, vol. iv. p. 343.) (London, 1872–83.) [↑]
[203] Finlay, vol. iii. pp. 358–9. J. H. Krause: Die Byzantiner des Mittelalters, p. 276. (Halle, 1869.) [↑]
[204] Tavernier (1), p. 174. [↑]
[205] Joselian, p. 125. All the Abkhazes, Djikhethes, Ossetes, Kabardes and Kisthethes fell away from the Christian faith about this time. [↑]