Before the sentence, which would probably have condemned him to a dungeon or a cell, the emperor was informed that the palace courts were filled with the armed followers of his grandson; the judgment was softened to a treaty of reconciliation; and the triumphant escape of the prince encouraged the ardor of the younger faction.
[Footnote 6: He was crowned May 21st, 1295, and died October 12th, 1320, (Ducange, Fam.Byz.p.

239.) His brother Theodore, by a second marriage, inherited the marquisate of Montferrat, apostatized to the religion and manners of the Latins, (oti kai gnwmh kai pistei kai schkati, kai geneiwn koura kai pasin eqesin DatinoV hn akraijnhV.Nic.Greg.l.

ix.
c.

1,) and founded a dynasty of Italian princes, which was extinguished A.D.1533, (Ducange, Fam.Byz.p.

249--253.)] [Footnote 7: We are indebted to Nicephorus Gregoras (l.viii.c.