The ceremony was held on Easter Sunday. Godfrey, Baldwin and their leading lords swore to acknowledge the emperor as overlord of the campaign, and to hand over to the Byzantine officials any reconquered land that had previously belonged to the emperor. Theo saw Baldwin’s mouth twist at that pledge, and remembered Emma telling him of Baldwin’s greed. No land would be relinquished by the duke’s brother if he could help it, oath or no oath, Theo thought. Following the ceremony, the emperor organized a mammoth celebration. Even though Alexius had been horrified by Godfrey’s attack during Holy Week itself, he showered gifts and money upon the assembled knights, and ended the festivities with a banquet of huge proportions. Then Godfrey and all his troops were transported across the Bosphorus, the narrow stretch of water that separated Constantinople from the lands to the east. They marched on to an encampment at Pelecanum, on the road to Nicomedia. There they would wait for the other crusading armies to catch up with them.
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