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patriarchal palace and of his actions towards the emperor on behalf of those in need. 25. How the emperor, unable to bear the daily annoyance from the patriarch on behalf of the people, appointed the third day of the week for reports. 26. How ambassadors were again sent to the pope by the emperor. 27. How Ikarios, having gone over to the emperor and been received, is put in command of the Roman fleet, and his heroic deed against the grand lord. 28. Further, the matters concerning the former patriarch Joseph and the matters concerning the then-patriarch Bekkos. 19 29. Further, the matters concerning the patriarch Joseph. 30. How the emperor humbled the Genoese in the city, and also those outside.

{CHAPTERS OF THE SIXTH BOOK}. How matters concerning the Haemus were again disturbed and for what reasons.

2. How Maria outwitted Osphentisthlabos. 3. The story of Lachanas from the beginning and how he murdered Constantine, the king of the Bulgarians. 4. How the emperor arranged a marriage for his daughter Irene with Asan, also called Mytzes. 5. How the emperor, having sent concerning the marriage of Asan, sought counsel, and how Prince Theodosios had become patriarch of Antioch. 6. How the emperor also made Michael, who had come up from the west, a son-in-law by his second daughter. 7. The matters concerning Maria and how she lived with Lachanas. 8. How Maria was handed over to the emperor, while Asan was received by the people of Ternovon. 9. How Asan departed from Ternovon. 10. How accusations were contrived against John Bekkos the patriarch. 11. How an imperial novel proceeds, placing the external patriarchal rights under the bishops. 12. Concerning what happened to the patriarch at the feast of the Presentation on account of the sending of the kolyva. 13. How the patriarch John abdicated the throne. 14. The matters concerning the ambassadors of the pope and concerning the patriarch John, how he returned again to the patriarchal palace. 15. The emperor's assurance to the men of the church through a public speech on account of the unreasonable demands of the ambassadors. 16. How the emperor sent the ambassadors and the bishop of Ephesus to the prison to see his relatives imprisoned because of the scandal of the church. 17. How John was restored to the patriarchal palace for the second time. 18. The matters concerning Meletios and Ignatios, the monks sent to the pope, and the matters of the excommunication, how and for what reasons they proceeded. 21 19. Again the matters concerning Lachanas and how he was murdered by Nogai, with Asan also present. 20. How the emperor Andronikos campaigns in the east and the matters concerning Tralles. 21. How Tralles was captured by the Persians. 22. How the porphyrogennetos is also sent to the west and the matters concerning Saint Auxentios, when the emperor departed. 23. How and for what reason Bekkos, by writing, stirred up matters concerning dogmas. 24. How the patriarch departed to Saint Auxentios and concerning the emperor's punishments there. 25. The matters concerning Kaloeidas and concerning John Doukas. 26. The matters concerning the logothete of the genikon Mouzalon and the grand logothete and later protovestiarios. 27. How the porphyrogennetos returned from the west and the matters concerning Kotanitzes, or rather Tornikios. 28. The death of the despoina Anna and the change of insignia for the porphyrogennetos. 29. The campaign of the emperor Michael towards the Sangarios and the events that happened there to the emperor. 30. The matters concerning the apokrisiarioi to Pope Martin and how, when they departed, they were not received, and how on this account the emperor's zeal for them was broken. 31. Concerning the testaments of the patriarch Joseph. 32. How the events at Bellagrada occurred. 33. The triumph over the captured things at

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πατριαρχεῖον καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ πρὸς βασιλέα ὑπὲρ τῶν δεομένων πράξεων. κεʹ. Ὅπως μὴ φέρων ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν καθημερινὴν ἐνόχλησιν τοῦ πατριάρχου ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν τρίτην τῆς ἑβδομάδος ἐπὶ τῶν ἀναφορῶν ἔταξεν. κʹ. Ὅπως πάλιν ἀπεστάλησαν εἰς τὸν πάπαν πρέσβεις παρὰ βασιλέως. κζʹ. Ὅπως Ἰκάριος, προσχωρήσας βασιλεῖ καὶ δεχθείς, καθίσταται ἐπὶ τοῦ στόλου τῆς Ῥωμαΐδος καὶ τὸ κατὰ τοῦ μεγάλου κυρίου ἀνδραγά θημα. κηʹ. Ἔτι τὰ κατὰ τὸν πατριαρχεύσαντα Ἰωσὴφ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν πατριάρχην τηνικάδε Βέκκον. 19 κθʹ. Ἔτι τὰ κατὰ τὸν πατριάρχην Ἰωσήφ. λʹ. Ὅπως τοὺς κατὰ τὴν πόλιν Γεννουίτας, ἔτι δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἔξω, ἐταπείνου ὁ βασιλεύς.

{ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΚΤΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ}. Ὅπως τὰ κατὰ τὸν Αἷμον καὶ πάλιν παρεκινοῦντο καὶ ἐκ ποίων τῶν αἰτιῶν.

βʹ. Ὅπως ἡ Μαρία κατεσοφίσατο τὸν Ὀσφεντίσθλαβον. γʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὸν Λαχανᾶν ἀρχῆθεν καὶ ὅπως Κωνσταντῖνον τὸν τῶν Βουλγάρων βασιλέα πεφόνευκεν. δʹ. Ὅπως ὁ βασιλεὺς τῇ θυγατρὶ Εἰρήνῃ τὸν Ἀσάν, τὸν καὶ Μυτζῆν, εἰς γάμον ἥρμοσεν. εʹ. Ὅπως ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ τῷ τοῦ Ἀσὰν κήδει πέμψας ἐζήτει βουλὴν καὶ ὡς ὁ Πρίγκιψ Θεοδόσιος Ἀντιοχείας ἐγεγόνει πατριάρχης. ʹ. Ὅπως καὶ τὸν Μιχαήλ, ἐκ δύσεως ἀνελθόντα, γαμβρὸν ἐπὶ τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῶν θυγατέρων ὁ κρατῶν ἐποίει. ζʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὴν Μαρίαν καὶ ὅπως τῷ Λαχανᾷ συνῴκησεν. ηʹ. Ὅπως Μαρία μὲν παρεδόθη τῷ βασιλεῖ, Ἀσὰν δὲ Τερνοβίταις παρεδέχθη. θʹ. Ὅπως Ἀσὰν ἐκ Τερνόβου ἀπεχώρησεν. ιʹ. Ὅπως κατηγορίαι συνεσκευάσθησαν κατὰ Ἰωάννου τοῦ Βέκκου πατριαρχοῦντος. ιαʹ. Ὅπως βασιλικὴ νεαρὰ προβαίνει ποιοῦσα τὰ ἔξω πατριαρχικὰ δίκαια ὑπὸ τοὺς ἐπισκόπους. ιβʹ. Περὶ τοῦ συμβάντος τῷ πατριάρχῃ ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ τῆς Ὑπαπαντῆς διὰ τὴν τῶν κολύβων ἀποστολήν. ιγʹ. Ὅπως παρῃτήσατο τὸν θρόνον ὁ πατριαρχεύων Ἰωάννης. ιδʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τοὺς πρέσβεις τοῦ πάπα καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν πατριάρχην Ἰωάννην, ὅπως καὶ πάλιν ἐπανῆκεν εἰς τὸ πατριαρχεῖον. ιεʹ. Πληροφορία τοῦ βασιλέως τοῖς τῆς ἐκκλησίας διὰ δημηγορίας διὰ τὰς παραλόγους ἀπαιτήσεις τῶν πρέσβεων. ιʹ. Ὅπως ἀπέστειλε τοὺς πρέσβεις καὶ τὸν Ἐφέσου ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς τὴν φυλακὴν ἰδεῖν τοὺς προσγενεῖς αὐτοῦ καθειργμένους διὰ τὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας σκάνδαλον. ιζʹ. Ὅπως ἀνήχθη ὁ Ἰωάννης εἰς τὸ πατριαρχεῖον τὸ δεύτερον. ιηʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὸν Μελέτιον καὶ Ἰγνάτιον, τοὺς πεμφθέντας εἰς πάπαν μοναχούς, καὶ τὰ τῆς ἐκκηρύξεως, ὅπως καὶ ἐφ' ὁποίαις αἰτίαις προέβησαν. 21 ιθʹ. Πάλιν τὰ κατὰ τὸν Λαχανᾶν καὶ ὅπως παρὰ τοῦ Νογᾶ πεφόνευται, παρόντος καὶ τοῦ Ἀσάν. κʹ. Ὅπως ἐκστρατεύει ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀνδρόνικος εἰς ἀνατολὴν καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὰς Τράλλεις. καʹ. Ὅπως αἱ Τράλλεις παρὰ Περσῶν ἑάλωσαν. κβʹ. Ὅπως καὶ ὁ πορφυρογέννητος πρὸς τὰ κατὰ δύσιν ἀποστέλλεται καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν Ἅγιον Αὐξέντιον, τοῦ βασιλέως ἐξελθόντος. κγʹ. Ὅπως καὶ δι' ἣν τὴν αἰτίαν ὁ Βέκκος γράφων ἐκίνει τὰ περὶ δογμάτων. κδʹ. Ὅπως εἰς τὸν Ἅγιον Αὐξέντιον ὁ πατριαρχεύων ἀπῆλθε καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐκεῖσε τοῦ βασιλέως ποινῶν. κεʹ. Τὰ περὶ τοῦ Καλοειδᾶ καὶ περὶ Ἰωάννου τοῦ ∆ούκα. κʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὸν λογοθέτην τοῦ γενικοῦ Μουζάλωνα καὶ τὸν μέγαν λογοθέτην καὶ πρωτοβεστιάριον ὕστερον. κζʹ. Ὅπως ἐκ δύσεως ὑπέστρεφεν ὁ πορφυρογέννητος καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν Κοτανίτζην, εἴτ' οὖν Τορνίκιον. κηʹ. Θάνατος τῆς δεσποίνης Ἄννης καὶ τῶν παρασήμων τῷ πορφυρο γεννήτῳ μεταλλαγή. κθʹ. Ἐκστρατεία Μιχαὴλ βασιλέως πρὸς Σάγγαριν καὶ τὰ γεγονότα ἐκεῖσε τῷ βασιλεῖ. λʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τοὺς πρὸς τὸν πάπαν Μαρτῖνον ἀποκρισιαρίους καὶ ὡς ἀπελθόντες οὐκ ἐδέχθησαν καὶ ὡς ἐπεκλάσθη διὰ ταῦτα ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως ὑπὲρ ἐκείνων σπουδή. λαʹ. Περὶ τῶν διαθηκῶν τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἰωσήφ. λβʹ. Ὅπως συνέβη τὰ κατὰ τὰ Βελλάγραδα. λγʹ. Θρίαμβος τῶν ἑαλωκότων κατὰ τὰ