Baldwin of Flanders and Hainaut, First Latin Emperor of Constantinople: His Life, Death, and Resurrection, 1172-1225

'Quantunm honorem quantamve gloriam terra Flandriae et Hainoniae totaque progenies nostra in aeternum in captione Constantinopolitani mperii sit adepta, non solum in terram nostram, verum etiam per quatuor mundi climata, divina potentia credimus esse delatum.' (Letter of the Latin Emperor Henry, younger brother and successor of Baldwin, to their brother Godfrey, praepositus of the church of St Aime at Douai, in 1206. Bouquet, Recueil, xviii, 527.)