Bar Sauma went to Florence and Genoa, where he met with the Captain of the People. From Genoa, Bar Sauma went to Lombardy and onwards to Paris, where he met Philip IV of France. After staying …

Bar Sauma turned northward to visit Genoa, Paris, Bordeaux, and other cities. He met with Edward I of England and Philip the Fair of France. Philip designated noblemen and monks to accompany Bar …

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

Rabban Bar Sauma, Chinese Nestorian monk, embarks on a pilgrimage from China to Jerusalem. He travels to Hotan, Kashgar, Taraz and Khorasan (modern Afghanistan).

Latter period of the Crusades

The youth had been at Abdullah’s side when he was assassinated. In June 1967, King Hussein joined in another Arab war against Israel. His forces were pushed back across the Jordan River, and all that …

Edward the exile/hostage (son of king Edmund ironside & Ealdgyth/Edith; gs of Aethelred the unrede & Aelfgifu of York) b: c. 1016 d: 1085-07-17 (exiled within months after birth to court of Olof …

Borbone, P. Giorgio (éd.), Storia di Mar Yahballaha e di Rabban Sauma. Un orientale in Occidente ai tempi di Marco Polo, Turin, Zamorani, 2000. Bourin-Derruau, Monique, Temps d’équilibres, temps de …

The Lady Xoc before her husband, King Shield Jaguar II, pulls a spiked thong through a hole in her tongue to induce a vision-trance and to invoke a vision-serpent.

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