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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, English men were the guard of the Emperours of
Constantinople in the reigne of John the sonne of
Alexius Comnenus . Malmesburiensis , Curopolata and
Camden
, pag. 96. (search)
English men were the guard of the Emperours of
Constantinople in the reigne of John the sonne of
Alexius Comnenus. Malmesburiensis, Curopolata and
Camden
, pag. 96.
FROM this time forward the kingdome of England was
reputed amongst the most flourishing estates of Christendome, no lesse in chivalrie then humanitie. So farforth
that the English men were sent for to be the guarders
of the persons of the Emperours of Constantinople. For John the sonne of Alexius Comnenus, as our countreyman
William of Malmesburie reporteth, highly esteeming their
fidelity, used them very nere about him, recommending
them over to his sonne: so that long time afterwards
the guard of those Emperours were English halberdiers,
called by Nicetas Choniata, Inglini Bipenniferi, and by
Curopolata, Barangi, which alwayes accompanied the
Emperour with their halberds on their shoulders, which
they held up when the Emperour comming from his
Oratorie shewed himselfe to the people; and clashing
their halberds together t