Just before the Marseille garrison starved, the Germans sallied and sent some troops from Burgundy in an attempt to lift the siege. They ournumber us two to one. It will be up to His Majesty to fight or retreat.
In the previous year, the Bohemians attacked the Germans and pushed them out of Austria. Our admiral combined our fleet in the Ligurian and attacked, but this slowed him down and the German pirates managed to escape. May they never return again!
I also had a message that the Almohads have managed to destroy the Kingdom of Portugal. This is the second Christian kingdom to fall against the infidel hordes, after the Armenians could not stand against the Saracens in the East. The enemies of God are everywhere, but we shall prevail.
A unit of spearmen was trained in Genoa and a slat mine was open in Sardinia. Yet another princess was born in our Consul's family, just as her second oldes sister matured. Our two eligible princesses are courting potential husbands within the Spanish and Aragonese noblemen. Pietro Corsini is trying to find the Danish king to offer alliance.