Amadeus, in order to discharge his vows,…
January 1367 CE
Amadeus, in order to discharge his vows, is required to take the ambassadors of John V to Rome.
He goes by land up to Pavia, where he arrives on September 18 to await his baggage coming up by the waters of the Po and his treasury coming down from Savoy to finance his final pilgrimage to Rome.
He sets out on September 25 for Pisa, thence to Viterbo, where he meets Pope Urban and presents the embassy from Constantiople.
He continues with the Papal entourage to Rome, where Pope Urban solemnly enters the city on October 12, the first pope in Rome since 1305.
Amadeus remains at Rome about two weeks before returning to Chambéry by Christmas via Perugia and Florence (early November), through Pavia (mid-November), Parma, Borgo San Donnino and Castel San Giovanni.
Throughout his journey from Venice to Rome to Savoy, the count is everywhere honored as a triumphant crusader.
Amadeus had left the city of Emona in the hands of his bastard son, the elder Antoine, with a small garrison.
According to the chroniclers of Savoy, Jehan Servion and Jean d'Oronville Cabaret, the inhabitants deceived the Savoyards with acts of kindness before leading them into an ambush, where Antoine was captured.
Antoine is supposed to have languished in a Buglarian prison until his death.
Although this account is not corroborated by earlier sources, it is certain that Emona was lost to the Bulgars and that the elder Antoine does not appear in his father's treasury accounts any time after the crusade.
Gallipoli will not be lost to Christendom by any action of the Turks.
After three years of civil war between John V and his son, Andronikos IV, it will be handed over to them by the latter as payment for their support.
Thus it will be occupied after ten years of Christian occupation in the winter of 1376–77 by Sultan Murad I.