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" ... For the dowager queen, Eleanor, the humiliating treatment of her son was
obviously not enough, because immediately after the conclusion of the
agreement she turned towards her imaginary archenemies,
in this case especially to John, the Prince of Antioch.
As a prelude, she convinced him that his Bulgarian body-guard were
treacherously seeking his life. Thereupon Prince John had the
unfortunate Bulgarians thrown from one of the highest towers of St. Hilarion Castle ..."