Amadeus sends a Savoyard embassy from Constantinople,…
October 1366 CE
Amadeus sends a Savoyard embassy from Constantinople, to John V, who is apparently at Vidin.
He seems to have asked for armed intervention to free him to return to his capital.
His empress, Helena Kantakouzene, offers the count of Savoy money for a military expedition into Bulgaria, although Amadeus has no warrant from the pope to attack the Bulgarians, fellow Christians albeit schimastics (non-Catholics).
Leaving a contingent behind in Constantinople, the count leads a fleet up the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria on October 4.
In two days they reach the port of "Lorfenal" (l'Orfenal) and then Sozopolis, which was long supposed to have been in imperial hands, but now appears to have belonged to the Bulgars.
No battle takes place, and it is not clear if the city surrendered or was simply bypassed.
The expense accounts of Amadeus VI show him to have been "at Sozopolis" (apud Tisopuli) for 17–19 October, but he may have only camped outside its walls.
He may, however, have captured Burgas.
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