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RABBAN See also:BAR SAUMA (fl. 128o-1288)
, Nestorian traveller and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Peking about the See also:middle of the 13th See also:century, of Uigur stock
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While still See also:young he started on a See also:pilgrimage to See also:Jerusalem, and travelling by way of Tangut, See also:Khotan, See also:Kashgar, Talas in the Syr Darla valley, See also:Khorasan, See also:Maragha and See also:Mosul, arrived at See also:Ani in See also:Armenia
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Warnings of the danger of the routes to See also:southern See also:Syria turned him from his purpose; and his friend and See also:fellow-See also:pilgrim, Rabban Marcos, becoming Nestorian See also:patriarch (as See also:Mar Yaballaha III.) in 1281, suggested See also:Bar Sauma's name to Arghun See also:Khan, See also:sovereign of the Ilkhanate or Mongol-See also:Persian See also:realm, for a See also:European See also:embassy, then contemplated
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The purpose of this was to conclude an See also:anti-Moslem See also:alliance, especially against the See also:Mameluke See also:power, with the See also:chief states of Christendom
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On this embassy Bar Sauma started in 1287, with Arghun's letters to the See also:Byzantine See also:emperor, the See also:pope and the See also:kings of See also:France and See also:England
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In See also:Constantinople he had See also:audience of Andronicus II.; he gives an enthusiastic description of St See also:Sophia
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He next travelled to See also:Rome, where he visited St See also:Peter's, and had prolonged negotiations with the cardinals
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The papacy being then vacant, a definite reply to his proposals was postponed, and Bar Sauma passed on to See also:Paris, where he had audience of the See also: See J . B . See also:Chabot's See also:translation and edition of the Histoire du Patriarche Mar Jabalaha III. et du moine Rabban Cauma (from the See also:Syriac) in Revue de l'Orient latin, 1893, PP . 566–61o; 1894, pp . 73–143, 235–300; O . Raynaldus, Annales Ecclesiastici (continuation of See also:Baronius), A.D . 1288, §§ See also:xxxv.–See also:xxxvi . ;1289, § lxi . ; L . See also:Wadding, Annales Minorum, v . 169, 196, 170–173; C . R . Beazley, See also:Dawn of See also:Modern See also:Geography, ii . 15, 352; iii . 12, 189–190, 539–541 . |
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