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wills, just as a liege man of the same power and of the same empire, and willing the same things and agreeing, which I also do, toward you. 13.12.26 But also from now on, since I have once for all become your man and of the circle of your power, I am obliged to receive an annual payment from the imperial treasuries of two hundred talents bearing the quality and stamp of the former emperor, the lord Michael, through a messenger of ours sent from Syria along with my letters to you to the queen of cities, for the purpose of receiving these for our own person. 13.12.27 And you, the ever-venerable emperors and venerable augusti of the Roman dominion, will surely cherish the things written in the golden bull of your pious majesty and will maintain what has been promised. And I, through this oath, will confirm the things agreed upon by me with you. For I swear by the passion of the impassible Savior Christ and by his invincible cross, which he endured for the salvation of all, and by the most holy gospels lying before me, which have caught the whole world in a net; for holding these I swear, and taking along in my mind the precious cross of Christ and the crown of thorns and the nails and that lance which pierced the life-giving side of the Lord, to you, our most mighty and holy emperor, the lord Alexios Komnenos and to your co-emperor, the thrice-desired lord John the Porphyrogennetos, that I will keep and maintain inviolate forever all the things agreed upon and spoken from my mouth, and I both now intend and will hereafter intend things for the benefit of your power, showing nothing malicious or deceitful towards you, not even to the point of a mere thought, but I will abide by the things agreed upon by me, and in no way whatever will I swear falsely to you, nor will I proceed to the annulment of the things promised, nor will I devise anything hostile, neither I myself nor all those with me and however many are under my authority and make up the band of my soldiers. But also we will arm ourselves against your enemies and will take up arms and spears, and to your friends we will extend our right hands. And I will both devise and accomplish all things for the benefit and honor of the Roman Empire. So may I have the benefit of God's help, so of the cross and of the divine gospels. 13.12.28 These things were written and the oaths were completed in the presence of the undersigned witnesses in the month of September of the second indiction, of the year now flowing by, 6617. The witnesses, however, who were present and signed below, before whom these things were completed, are these: the most God-loving bishops, both Maurus of Amalfi and Renardos of Tarentum and the clergy with him; the most reverend abbot of the venerable monastery of Saint Andrew in Lombardy, on the island of Brindisi, and two of their monks; the leaders of the pilgrims, whose signs they themselves drew with their own hands, but their names were written next to the signs by the hand of the most God-loving bishop of Amalfi, who had also come as an envoy from the Pope to the emperor. Those from the imperial court: the sebastos Marinos, Roger son of Takoupertos, Peter of Aliphas, Goulielmos Gantzes, Richard of the Principate, Iosphre Male, Oumpertos son of Graoul, Paul the Roman, the apokrisiarioi coming from the Dacians from the kral and kinsman-by-marriage of the emperor, zoupanos Peres and Simon, and the apokrisiarioi of Richard the Seneschal, Basil the nobelissimos, the eunuch, and Constantine the notary.” This written oath, then, the emperor received from Bohemond, and he gave in return

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θελήμασι καθαπερεὶ ἀνθρώπου λιζίου τυγχάνοντος τοῦ αὐτοῦ κράτους καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς βασιλείας καὶ τὰ αὐτὰ βουλομένου καὶ συμφωνοῦντος, ἅπερ κἀγώ, πρὸς ὑμᾶς. 13.12.26 Ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦδε, ἐπειδὴ καθάπαξ ἐγε νόμην ὑμέτερος ἄνθρωπος καὶ τοῦ κύκλου τοῦ κράτους ὑμῶν, ὀφείλω λαμβάνειν κατ' ἐτησίαν δόσιν ἀπὸ τῶν βασι λικῶν θησαυρῶν τάλαντα διακόσια τοῦ προβεβασιλευκότος κυρίου Μιχαὴλ ποιότητά τε καὶ χαραγὴν ἀποφέροντα διά τινος ἀποστολέως ἡμετέρου Συριάθεν πεμπομένου μετὰ καὶ γραμμάτων ἐμῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν βασιλίδα πόλιν, ἐφ' ᾧ ταῦτα λαβεῖν εἰς ἡμέτερον πρόσωπον. 13.12.27 Καὶ ὑμεῖς μέν, οἱ ἀεισέβαστοι βασιλεῖς καὶ σεβαστοί γε καὶ αὔγουστοι τῆς τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίας, στέρξετε δήπουθεν τὰ ἐν τῷ χρυσοβούλλῳ λόγῳ τῆς εὐσεβοῦς ὑμῶν βασιλείας ἐγγεγραμ μένα καὶ τὰ ὑπεσχημένα διατηρήσετε. Ἐγὼ δὲ διὰ τοῦδε τοῦ ὅρκου τὰ παρ' ἐμοῦ πρὸς ὑμᾶς συμπεφωνημένα κατεμ πεδῶ. Ὄμνυμι γὰρ εἰς τὰ πάθη τοῦ ἀπαθοῦς καὶ σωτῆρος Χριστοῦ καὶ εἰς τὸν ἀήττητον ἐκείνου σταυρόν, ὃν ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν ἁπάντων σωτηρίας ὑπέμεινε, καὶ εἰς τὰ προκείμενα παναγέστατα εὐαγγέλια, ἃ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἅπασαν ἐσαγή νευσε· ταῦτα γὰρ κρατῶν ἐπόμνυμι καὶ τὸν πολύτιμον σταυ ρὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ συμπαραλαμβάνων τῷ νῷ καὶ τὸν ἀκάνθι νον στέφανον καὶ τοὺς ἥλους καὶ τὴν λόγχην ἐκείνην τὴν διατρήσασαν τὴν δεσποτικὴν καὶ ζωσποιὸν πλευρὰν πρὸς σέ, τὸν κράτιστον καὶ ἅγιον ἡμῶν βασιλέα κύριον Ἀλέξιον τὸν Κομνηνὸν καὶ τὸν συμβασιλεύοντά σοι τριπόθητον κύριον Ἰωάννην τὸν πορφυρογέννητον, ὡς πάντα τὰ συμπε φωνημένα καὶ εἰρημένα ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματός μου φυλάξω καὶ ἀπαράβατα διατηρήσω μέχρι παντός, καὶ τὰ ὑπὲρ τοῦ κρά τους ὑμῶν καὶ νῦν φρονῶ καὶ εἰσέτι φρονήσω, μηδ' ἄχρι ψιλῆς ἐπινοίας κακόηθες ἢ δολερὸν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐνδειξόμε νος, ἀλλ' ἐμμενῶ τοῖς ὑπ' ἐμοῦ συμπεφωνημένοις καὶ καθ' οἱονδήτινα τρόπον οὔτε ψευδορκήσω πρὸς ὑμᾶς οὔτε εἰς ἀθέτησιν τῶν ὑπεσχημένων χωρήσω οὔτε πρὸς ἄσπονδόν τι ἐπινοήσομαι οὔτε αὐτὸς ἐγὼ οὔτε οἱ σὺν ἐμοὶ πάντες καὶ ὁπόσοι τῆς ἐμῆς ἐξουσίας εἰσὶ καὶ τὸν χορὸν τῶν ἐμῶν στρατιωτῶν ἀπαρτίζουσιν. Ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν σῶν ἐχθρῶν θωρακιούμεθα καὶ ἀροῦμεν ὅπλα καὶ δόρατα καὶ τοῖς σοῖς φίλοις ἐμβαλοῦμεν τὰς δεξιάς. Καὶ πάντα τὰ πρὸς ὠφέ λειαν καὶ τιμὴν τῆς τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῆς καὶ ἐπινοήσω καὶ καταπράξομαι. Οὕτως ὀναίμην τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ βοηθείας, οὕτω τοῦ σταυροῦ καὶ τῶν θείων εὐαγγελίων. 13.12.28 Ταῦτα ἐγράφη τε καὶ οἱ ὅρκοι συνετελέσθησαν παρου σίᾳ τῶν ὑπογεγραμμένων μαρτύρων κατὰ μῆνα Σεπτέμβριον δευτέρας ἐπινεμήσεως ἔτους ἤδη διαρρυϊσκομένου #22χιζʹ. Οἱ μέντοι παρουσιάσαντες μάρτυρες καὶ ὑπογεγραφότες, ὧν ἐναντίον ταῦτα τετέλεστο, εἰσὶν οὗτοι· οἱ θεοφιλέστατοι ἐπίσκοποι, ὅ τε Ἀμάλφης Μαῦρος καὶ ὁ τοῦ Τερεντοῦ Ῥενάρδος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ κληρικοί· ὁ εὐλαβέστατος καθη γούμενος τῆς ἐν Λογγιβαρδίᾳ σεβασμίας μονῆς τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀνδρέου, τῆς ἐν τῇ νήσῳ τοῦ Βρεντησίου, καί τινες αὐτῶν δύο μοναχοί· οἱ ἄρχοντες τῶν περεγρίνων, ὧν τὰ μὲν σίγνα αὐτοὶ διεχάραξαν οἰκειοχείρως, τὰ δὲ τούτων ὀνόματα διὰ χειρὸς τοῦ θεοφιλεστάτου ἐπισκόπου Ἀμάλφης τοῖς σίγνοις προσπαρεγράφησαν, ὃς καὶ πρέσβυς παρὰ τοῦ πάπα πρὸς τὸν αὐτοκράτορα ἐληλύθει. Οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς βασιλείου αὐλῆς· ὁ σεβαστὸς Μαρῖνος, Ῥογέρης ὁ τοῦ Τακουπέρτου, Πέτρος Ἀλίφας, Γελίελμος ὁ Γανζῆ, Ῥιτζάρδος ὁ Πριντζίτας, Ἰοσφρὲ Μαλή, Οὐμπέρτος ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Γραούλ, Παῦλος ὁ Ῥωμαῖος, οἱ ἐκ τῶν ∆ακῶν ἥκοντες ἀποκρισιάριοι παρὰ τοῦ κράλη καὶ συμπενθέρου τῆς βασιλείας, ζουπάνος ὁ Περὴς καὶ Σίμων, καὶ οἱ ἀποκρισιάριοι Ῥισκάρδου Σινισκάρδου, Βασίλειος νωβελλίσιμος ὁ εὐνοῦχος καὶ Κωνσταν τῖνος νοτάριος.» Τὸν μὲν οὖν ἔγγραφον ὅρκον τοῦτον ὁ αὐτοκράτωρ παρὰ τοῦ Βαϊμούντου ἔλαβεν, ἀντιδέδωκε δὲ