7 Agnes was the sister of King Philip of France and was the widow of Emperor Alexius II (1180—3) and Andronicus I (1183—5). Theodore Branas was her third husband.
17 The link between tournament imagery and the crusades was not new and can be seen in an anonymous Old French trouvère song from the Second Crusade. See: Phillips, Crusades, 182—3.
16 Alberic was not, of course, an eye-witness to these events and his account of this battle may well have been embroidered. He also refers to Patriarch John by the name ‘Sampson’, another error. For Greek clergy not fighting, see: Anna Comnena, Alexiad, 256—7.