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your [majesty], and I extend the oath even to your royal members, if any harm is plotted against them by any villainous enemies, whom it is possible for me to destroy and to prevent from the evil undertaking. But also for all your land and city, both small and great, and islands themselves, and in short, whatever land and sea there is under your scepters, from the Adriatic Sea itself and as far as the entire east and along the length of great Asia, where the boundaries of the Romans were. 13.12.7 Furthermore I agree, and God will be witness and hearer of the things agreed upon, never to hold or possess any land placed under your scepters, whether now or formerly, nor city nor island, and simply, whatever the empire of Constantinople contained or now holds in both the east and west, except for those things expressly granted to me by your God-appointed rule, which will also be declared by name in the present document. 13.12.8 But whatever land I might be able to subdue that was once subject to this empire, having driven out those holding that land, I must refer the administration concerning it to your judgment. And if you wish me to govern the conquered land as your liege man and faithful servant, this will be so; but if not, then I would hand it over to whatever man your majesty might wish, not hesitating in any way at all. And I will not accept a land betrayed to me by another, or any city or town, which were once under the authority of the empire, as belonging to me; but both those taken by siege and those without a siege, were yours and will be yours again, with me making no claim whatsoever concerning them. 13.12.9 But neither will I accept an oath from any Christian nor give one to another, nor any agreement whatsoever tending to your harm or to the detriment both of you and of your empire. Nor will I become the man of another or of another authority, greater or lesser, without [the consent of] your majesty; but there is one lordship for me, which I promise to serve, the empire of you and of your thrice-desired son. 13.12.10 And the men of your empire who come to me as having rebelled against your rule and wishing to serve me, I will both hate and send away, or rather, I will arm myself against them. But other barbarians who nevertheless wish to come under my spear, I would accept, but not in my own person; but I will put them under oath for the sake of you and of your much-desired son, and I will take over their lands by right of your empire, and from then on I promise to do what is commanded concerning them without excuse. 13.12.11 These things, on the one hand, are about the cities and lands which were under the scepter of the Fortune of the Romans; but concerning those that have not yet been enslaved to Romania, I promise these things under oath, so that the lands that come to me without war or even with war and battle, all these I may consider as from your empire, whether they are Turkish or Armenian and, as one who knows our language might say, pagan or Christian, and those from the nations approaching me and wishing to serve me, so that I may receive them as being themselves also future men of your empire. And may my agreement with the majesty of the empire and the established oaths extend also to these. And of these themselves, those whom you, the ever-venerable emperors, wish to be placed under me, they would be so placed, but those whom you wish to send to your majesty, I will send, if they also wish it, but if they do not wish it, but refuse service to you, I will not receive them either. 13.12.12 However, against Tancred and my nephew I will have an undeclared war, if

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ὑμετέρας καὶ μέχρι τῶν βασιλικῶν ὑμῶν μελῶν ἐκτείνω τὸν ὅρκον, εἴ τις αὐτοῖς ἐπιβουλεύεται κάκωσις παρά τινων ἀλιτηρίων ἐχθρῶν, οὓς δυνατόν ἐστιν ἐμὲ κατα λύειν καὶ ἀπείργειν τοῦ κακοῦ ἐγχειρήματος. Ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπὲρ πάσης χώρας τῆς ὑμετέρας καὶ πόλεως μικρᾶς τε καὶ μείζονος καὶ νήσων αὐτῶν καὶ ἁπαξαπλῶς, ὁπόση τίς ἐστι γῆ τε καὶ θάλασσα ὑπὸ τὰ ὑμέτερα σκῆπτρα ἐξ αὐτοῦ δήπου θεν τοῦ Ἀδριαντικοῦ πελάγους καὶ ἄχρι πάσης ἀνατολῆς καὶ κατὰ μῆκος τῆς μεγάλης Ἀσίας, ἔνθα τὰ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ὁρίσματα ἦν. 13.12.7 Ἔτι συμφωνῶ, καὶ ἔσται τῶν συμπεφωνη μένων μάρτυς καὶ ἐπήκοος ὁ Θεός, μηδεμίαν μηδέποτε χώραν τεταγμένην ὑπὸ τὰ ὑμέτερα σκῆπτρα εἴτε νῦν εἴτε πρότερον μήτε πόλιν ἢ νῆσον κρατεῖν τε καὶ ἔχειν, καὶ ἁπλῶς, ὁπόσα ἡ βασιλεία Κωνσταντινουπόλεως περιεῖ χεν ἢ νῦν κατέχει κατά τε τὴν ἀνατολὴν καὶ δύσιν, ἐκτὸς τῶν ῥητῶς δεδωρημένων μοι παρὰ τοῦ θεοπροβλήτου κρά τους ὑμῶν, ἃ καὶ κατ' ὄνομα δηλωθήσεται ἐν τῷ παρόντι ἐγγράφῳ. 13.12.8 Ἀλλ' ὁπόσην ἂν δυνηθείην χειρώσασθαι χώραν τελοῦσάν ποτε ὑπὸ τὴν βασιλείαν ταύτην ἀπωσάμε νος τοὺς τὴν χώραν ἐκείνην κατέχοντας, εἰς τὴν γνώμην τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀναρτᾶν ὀφείλω τὴν περὶ ταύτης οἰκονομίαν. Καὶ εἰ μὲν ἐμὲ βούλεσθε ἐπιτροπεύειν τῆς κυριευθείσης χώρας ὡς ἄνθρωπον ὑμέτερον λίζιον καὶ δοῦλον πιστόν, ἔσται τοῦτο· εἰ δ' οὔκ, ἀλλὰ παραδοίην ἄν, ᾧ ἂν ἀνδρὶ ἡ βασιλεία ὑμῶν βουληθείη, μὴ ἀμφιβάλλων κατά τι τὸ σύνο λον. Χώραν δὲ οὐ δέξομαι ἀφ' ἑτέρου τινὸς προδιδομένην ἐμοὶ ἢ πόλιν τινὰ ἢ πολίχνιον, ἅπερ ποτὲ ὑπὸ τὴν τῆς βασιλείας ἐξουσίαν ἐτύγχανον, ὡς ἐμοὶ διαφέροντα· ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ πολιορκίᾳ κρατούμενα καὶ τὰ ἄνευ πολιορκίας, ὑμέ τερα δ' ἦσαν καὶ πάλιν ὑμέτερα ἔσονται μηδ' ὁπωστιοῦν δικαιολογουμένου μου περὶ τούτων. 13.12.9 Ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ὅρκον δέξομαι παρά τινος Χριστιανοῦ ἢ δώσω πρὸς ἕτερον ἢ συμ φωνίαν ἡντιναοῦν πρὸς βλάβην ὑμετέραν ὁρῶσαν ἢ πρὸς ζημίαν καὶ ὑμῶν καὶ τῆς βασιλείας τῆς ὑμετέρας. Ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἄνθρωπος ἑτέρου γενήσομαι ἢ ἑτέρας ἀρχῆς μείζονος ἢ ἐλάσσονος ἄνευ τοῦ κράτους τοῦ ὑμετέρου· ἀλλὰ μία κυριότης ἐμοί, ᾗ ὑπισχνοῦμαι δουλεύειν, ἡ βασιλεία σοῦ τε καὶ τοῦ τριποθήτου υἱοῦ σου. 13.12.10 Τοὺς δὲ προσερχομέ νους μοι ἀνθρώπους τῆς βασιλείας σου ὡς κατεξαναστάν τας τοῦ κράτους τοῦ σοῦ καὶ ἐμοὶ ἐκδουλεύειν ἐθέλοντας καὶ μισήσω καὶ ἀποπέμψομαι, μᾶλλον δὲ κατ' αὐτῶν ἐξο πλίσομαι. Τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους βαρβάρους ἐθέλοντας δὲ ὅμως ὑπὸ τὸ ἐμὸν δόρυ γίνεσθαι, δεξαίμην μέν, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἰδίῳ προσώπῳ· ὁρκιῶ δὲ τούτους ἕνεκα σοῦ τε καὶ τοῦ περιποθή του υἱοῦ σου, καὶ τὰς ἐξ αὐτῶν χώρας παραλήψομαι δικαίῳ τῆς βασιλείας τῆς ὑμετέρας, καὶ ἐντεῦθεν τὸ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν προσταττόμενον ἀπροφασίστως ποιεῖν ἐπαγγέλλομαι. 13.12.11 Ταῦτα μὲν περὶ τῶν πόλεων καὶ τῶν χωρῶν ὅσαι ὑπὸ τὸ σκῆπτρον τῆς Ῥωμαίων Τύχης ἐτύγχανον οὖσαι· περὶ δὲ τῶν μηδέπω δεδουλευκότων τῇ Ῥωμανίᾳ, ταῦτα ἐνόρκως κατεπαγγέλλομαι ὡς ἵνα τάς τε προσερχομένας μοι χώρας ἄνευ πολέμου ἢ καὶ μετὰ πολέμου καὶ μάχης καὶ ταύτας ἁπάσας ὡς ἀπὸ τῆς ὑμετέρας βασιλείας λογίζωμαι, εἴτε τουρκικαί εἰσιν, εἴτε ἀρμενικαὶ καί, ὡς ἄν τις εἴποι τῶν τὴν ἡμετέραν ἐπισταμένων φωνήν, παγανικαὶ ἢ χριστιανι καί, τούς τε ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν προσιόντας μοι καὶ δουλεύειν ἐμοὶ βουλομένους, οὕτως ἵνα τούτους παραδέχωμαι ὡς εἶναι καὶ αὐτοὺς μέλλοντας ἀνθρώπους τῆς βασιλείας ὑμῶν. Καὶ διαβαίνοι καὶ πρὸς τούτους ἡ ἐμὴ συμφωνία πρὸς τὸ κράτος τῆς βασιλείας καὶ οἱ κατεμπεδωθέντες ὅρκοι. Καὶ τούτων αὐτῶν οὓς μὲν ἂν ἐθέλοιτε ὑμεῖς οἱ ἀεισέβαστοι βασιλεῖς ὑπ' ἐμὲ τάττεσθαι, τάττοιντ' ἄν, οὓς δὲ πέμπειν πρὸς τὸ ὑμέτερον κράτος βούλεσθε, βουλο μένων κἀκείνων ἀποστελῶ, μὴ βουλομένων δέ, ἀλλ' ἀπα ναινομένων τὴν πρὸς ὑμᾶς δουλείαν, οὐδὲ ἐγὼ παραδέξο μαι. 13.12.12 Πρὸς μέντοι τὸν Ταγγρὲ καὶ ἀνεψιόν μου ἀκήρυκτον ἕξω πόλεμον, εἰ