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his unhappy chamber. For that young man from her very beginning, not yet an adolescent, was averse to this marriage connection, just as infants are to hobgoblins. Of these, he betrothed one to Raymond, the son of the count of Brachenon, and the other he joined in marriage to Eubulus, also a most illustrious count. Nor did these transactions seem disadvantageous to Robert; for from all quarters he had assembled and was gathering power for himself, from his family, from his tyranny, from marriage connections, and from all sorts of other ways that one could not even imagine.

1.13.1 In the meantime, something of this sort happened, which is worthy of narration; for this too is attributed to his good fortune. For indeed I reckon that all the leaders of the west were reined in from their rush against him by the exceedingly favorable course of affairs for the barbarian, with fortune cooperating with him from all sides and raising him to tyranny and accomplishing everything advantageous for him. For the pope of Rome (and this is a noble authority and fortified by all sorts of armies), having had a dispute with the king of Germany, Henry, wished to draw Robert into an alliance, as he had already become most renowned and was flourishing in great commands. 1.13.2 The dispute between the king and the pope was of this sort. For the one accused King Henry of not giving away churches for free, but of selling them for gifts and entrusting the high priesthood to unworthy men, and he prosecuted him for such charges. But the king of Germany accused the pope of tyranny, because without his consent he had seized the apostolic throne. And he had even behaved shamelessly towards him and used rather bold words, saying that if he did not step down from his self-willed presidency, he would be driven from there with insult. 1.13.3 When the pope, therefore, heard these words, he immediately went mad against the ambassadors and, having first tortured them inhumanly, then shaved their heads and sheared their beards, the former with scissors, the beards with a razor, and having performed something else most outrageous and surpassing barbarian insolence, he sent them away. I would have described the insult, if both a woman's and an empress's modesty did not restrain me. For that deed done by him was not only unworthy of a high priest, but not even of any man bearing the name of Christian. I detested even the thought of the barbarian, let alone the deed, since I would have defiled both the writer's pen and the paper, if I had gone through the deed in detail. But for a demonstration both of barbarian insolence and that flowing time brings forth all sorts of characters of men to wickedness and all audacity, this will suffice, that we could not bear to indicate or relate even a small part of what was done. 1.13.4 And these things from a high priest, O justice, and these things from the first high priest, and these things from one who had become the president of the whole inhabited world, as indeed the Latins both say and think; for this too is part of their arrogance. For since the scepters have fallen from there to here, to our own and our royal city, indeed the senate and at the same time the whole order has changed, and so has the hierarchical order of the thrones. And the emperors of old have given the primacy to the throne of Constantinople, and especially the council in Chalcedon, having raised the see of Constantinople to the very first pre-eminence, placed all the dioceses throughout the world under it. 1.13.5 Perhaps, then, such an insult towards the ambassadors was referred back to the one who sent them, not only because he punished them, but also because he himself was the first to invent a new kind of insult to be inflicted on them. For by what he did he was hinting, I think, at the despicableness of the king, as if some demigod were conversing with a half-ass through these insulted ambassadors. 1.13.6 The pope, then, having done these things and the

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αὐτοῦ θαλάμου δυστυχῆ. Ὁ γὰρ νεανίας ἐκεῖνος ἐξ ἀρχῆς αὐτῆς οὔπω ἔφηβος ὢν ἀπεστρέφετο τουτὶ τὸ κῆδος καθάπερ τοὺς μορμολυττομένους τὰ βρέφη. Τούτων δὲ τὴν μὲν Ῥαϊμούντῳ τῷ υἱῷ κόμητος Βραχενῶνος κατηγγυήσατο, τὴν ἑτέραν δὲ συνέζευξε τῷ Εὐβούλῳ ἐπιφανεστάτῳ καὶ τούτῳ κόμητι. Οὐδὲ ταῦτα τὰ συναλλάγματα πρὸς τὸ ἀσύμφορον ἑώρα Ῥομπέρτῳ· ἀλλὰ πανταχόθεν γὰρ συνεκεκρότητο καὶ συνη θροίζετο ἑαυτῷ δύναμιν, ἐκ γένους, ἐκ τυραννίδος, ἐξ ἀγχιστείας, ἐξ ἄλλων τρόπων παντοδαπῶν, ὧν ἄν τις οὐδὲ ἐπινοήσαιτο.

1.13.1 Ξυμπίπτει δὲ μεταξὺ καί τι τοιοῦτον, ὅπερ ἄξιον ἀφηγήσασθαι· ἔστι γὰρ καὶ τοῦτο εἰς εὐτυχίαν τούτου ἀνα φερόμενον. Καὶ γὰρ καὶ τοὺς τῆς δύσεως ἅπαντας ἀρχη γοὺς ἀναχαιτίζεσθαι τῆς πρὸς τοῦτον φορᾶς σφόδρα τῆς τῶν πραγμάτων εὐροίας τῷ βαρβάρῳ λογίζομαι, ἁπαν ταχόθεν τῆς τύχης αὐτῷ συνεργούσης καὶ ἐπαιρούσης εἰς τυραννίδα καὶ πᾶν τὸ ἐπωφελὲς περαιουμένης. Ὁ γάρ τοι πάπας τῆς Ῥώμης (γενναία δὲ αὕτη ἀρχὴ καὶ στρατεύμασι παντοδαποῖς περιφραττομένη) μετὰ τοῦ ῥηγὸς Ἀλαμανίας Ἐνερίχου διαφορὰν ἐσχηκὼς ἐβούλετο πρὸς συμμαχίαν ἑλκύσαι Ῥομπέρτον ἤδη περιφανέστατον γεγονότα καὶ πρὸς μεγάλας ἀρχὰς ἀκμάσαντα. 1.13.2 Ἡ δὲ διαφορὰ ῥηγός τε καὶ πάπα τοιαύτη τις ἦν. Ὁ μὲν γὰρ κατῃτιᾶτο τὸν ῥῆγα Ἐνέριχον ὡς τὰς ἐκκλησίας οὐ προῖκα διδόντα, ἀλλὰ δωρημάτων ἀποδιδόμενον καί που καὶ ἀναξίοις ἀνδράσι τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην καταπιστεύοντα καὶ τοιούτων ἐγκλημάτων ἐδίωκεν. Ὁ δέ γε ῥὴξ Ἀλαμανίας τυραννίδος τὸν πάπαν ἐγράφετο, ὡς ἄτερ γνώμης αὐτοῦ τὸν ἀποστολικὸν ἐξαρ πάσειε θρόνον. Καί που καὶ ἀπηναισχυντήκει πρὸς τοῦτον καὶ ἰταμωτέροις ἐχρήσατο λόγοις, ὡς, εἰ μὴ ἐκσταίη τῆς αὐθαιρέτου προεδρίας, μεθ' ὕβρεως ἐκεῖθεν ἀπελαθήσεται. 1.13.3 Τούτων οὖν ἀκούσας ὁ πάπας τῶν λόγων κατὰ τῶν πρέσβεων εὐθὺς ἐμεμήνει καὶ αἰκισάμενος πρότερον ἀπαν θρώπως, εἶτα καὶ κείρας τὰς κεφαλὰς καὶ ἐπικείρας τοὺς πώγωνας, τὰς μὲν ψαλίσι, ξυρῷ δὲ τοὺς πώγωνας, καὶ ἄλλο τι προσεξεργασάμενος ἀτοπώτατον καὶ βαρβαρικὴν ὕβριν ὑπερελαῦνον ἀφῆκεν. Εἶπον ἂν καὶ τὴν ὕβριν, εἰ μή με καὶ γυναικεία καὶ βασιλικὴ ἐπεῖχεν αἰδώς. Ἐκεῖνο γὰρ οὐχ ὅπως ἀνάξιον ἀρχιερέως τὸ παρ' ἐκείνου πραχθέν, ἀλλ' οὐδ' ὅλως ἀνθρώπου Χριστιανικὸν ἐπιφερομένου καὶ τοὔ νομα. Ἐβδελυξάμην καὶ τὸ ἐνθύμημα τοῦ βαρβάρου, μὴ ὅτι γε τοὖργον, ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸν γραφέα κάλαμον καὶ τὸν χάρτην ἐμόλυνα ἄν, εἰ τὸ πραχθὲν κατὰ μέρος διεξῄειν. Ἀλλ' εἰς παράστασιν καὶ βαρβαρικῆς ὕβρεως καὶ ὅτι ὁ χρόνος ῥέων ἤθη ἀνδρῶν παντοδαπὰ πρὸς κακίαν ἀναφύει καὶ πάντολμα, ἀρκέσει αὐτὸ τοῦτο τὸ μηδὲ μικρόν τι τοῦ πραχθέντος ἀνασχέσθαι ἡμᾶς παρεμφῆναι ἢ διηγήσασθαι. 1.13.4 Καὶ ταῦτα ἀρχιερέως, ὦ δίκη, καὶ ταῦτα πρώτου ἀρχιερέως καὶ ταῦτα προκαθημένου τῆς οἰκουμένης ἁπάσης γενομένου, ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ οἱ Λατῖνοι λέγουσί τε καὶ οἴονται· ἔστι γὰρ καὶ τοῦτο τῆς ἀλαζονείας αὐτῶν. Μεταπεπτω κότων γὰρ τῶν σκήπτρων ἐκεῖθεν ἐνθάδε εἰς τὴν ἡμεδαπήν τε καὶ ἡμετέραν βασιλίδα πόλιν καὶ δὴ καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου καὶ ἅμα πάσης τῆς τάξεως μεταπέπτωκε καὶ ἡ τῶν θρόνων ἀρχιερατικὴ τάξις. Καὶ δεδώκασιν οἱ ἀνέκαθεν βασιλεῖς τὰ πρεσβεῖα τῷ θρόνῳ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, καὶ μάλιστα ἡ ἐν Χαλκηδόνι σύνοδος εἰς περιωπὴν πρωτίστην τὸν Κωνσταν τινουπόλεως ἀναβιβασαμένη τὰς ἀνὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην διοι κήσεις ἁπάσας ὑπὸ τοῦτον ἐτάξατο. 1.13.5 Μήποτε οὖν ἡ τοιαύτη πρὸς τοὺς πρέσβεας ὕβρις ἀνεφέρετο πρὸς τὸν πεπομφότα ἰοῦσα, οὐ μόνον ὅτι τούτους ἐκόλασεν, ἀλλ' ὅτι καὶ καινήν τινα τὴν εἰς αὐτοὺς γενομένην ὕβριν αὐτὸς πρῶτος ἐξεύρατο. Ἠνίττετο γὰρ δι' ὧν ἐποίει τὸ τοῦ ῥηγός, ὡς οἶμαι, εὐκαταφρόνητον, ὥσπερ τις ἡμίθεος ἡμιόνῳ διαλεγόμενος διὰ τῶν καθυβρισμένων τουτωνὶ πρέσβεων. 1.13.6 Ὁ μὲν οὖν πάπας ἐπειδὴ ταῦτα πεπραχὼς καὶ τοὺς