A mate lying to him and death dealers deserting right and left.
It was in vain that the popes sought to gather a new Crusade for its recovery; Pius II., who had vowed to join the crusade in person, only reached Ancona in 1464 to find the crusaders deserting and to die.
He or she will want to avoid the appearance of deserting the family by moving out with no intentions of returning.
His army was in serious distress; he was in want of food and supplies; most of his horses were dead, and his men were deserting.
On the 25th of December 1289 he issued a manifesto to the lesser gentry, a large portion of whom sided with him, urging them to continue the struggle against the magnates and their foreign supporters; but on the 10th of July 1290 he was murdered in his camp at Korosszeg by the Kumanians, who never forgave him for deserting them.
