During this time, a company of good and trustworthy men issued (from
the camp) to guard the host, for fear it should be attacked, and the
foragers searched the country. In the said company were Odo of
Champlitte, of Champagne, and William his brother, and Oger of
Saint-Chéron, and Manasses of l’Isle, and Count Girard, a count of
Lombardy, a retainer of the Marquis of Montferrat; and they had with
them at least eighty knights who were good men and true.
And they espied, at the foot of a mountain, some three leagues distant
from the host, certain tents belonging to the Grand Duke of the Emperor
of Constantinople, who had with him at least five hundred Greek
knights. When our people saw them, they formed their men into four
battalions, and decided to attack. And when the Greeks saw this, they
formed their battalions, and arrayed themselves in rank before their
tents, and waited. And our people went forward and fell upon them right
vigorously.
By the help of God our Lord, this fight lasted but a little while, and
the Greeks turned their backs. They were discomfited at the first
onset, and our people pursued them for a full great league. There they
won plenty of horses and stallions, and palfreys, and mules, and tents
and pavilions, and such spoil as is usual in such case. So they
returned to the host, where they were right well received, and their
spoils were divided, as was fit.