Chapter 61 - 1306
Determined to have their moment in history, all the male serfs of Potamia between fifteen and fifty followed Theodore to the capital; most of them losing their life in the attack on the treasury. The rest were incarcerated, waiting for the gallows to be set up. The Orthodox Archbishop appealed for the enforcement of the common theft penalty, the cutting off of the right hand at the wrist, but Amaury, deaf to reason and adamant about seeing all of them hanged, extinguished the peasants’ last flickers of hope. He wanted to set an example of zero tolerance for rebels.
Dressed in black, the women of Potamia had walked to Nicosia to bid their loved ones a last farewell. When the guards refused them a visit in the dungeons, there was nothing else to do but to wait.
At sunris
