DEPARTURE OF THE CRUSADERS FOR CORFU - ARRIVAL OF THE YOUNG
ALEXIUS - CAPTURE OF DURAS So much time had passed that it was
now Lent, and the host prepared their fleet to sail at Easter.
When the ships were laden on the day after Easter (7th April
1203), the pilgrims encamped by the port, and the Venetians
destroyed the city, and the walls and the towers. Then there
befell an adventure which weighed heavily upon the host; for one
of the great barons of the host, by name Simon of Montfort, had
made private covenant with the King of Hungary, who was at
enmity with those of the host, and went to him, abandoning the
host. With him went Guy of Montfort his brother, Simon of
Nauphle and Robert Mauvoisin, and Dreux of Cressonsacq, and the
abbot of Vaux, who was a monk of the order of the Cistercians,
and many others. And not long after another great lord of the
host, called Enguerrand of Boves, joined the King of Hungary,
together with Hugh, Enguerrand's brother, and such of the other
people of their country as they