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RABBAN See also: born at See also: Peking about the See also: middle of the 13th century, of Uigur stock
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While still See also: young he started on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and travelling by way of Tangut, See also: Khotan, See also: Kashgar, Talas in the Syr Darla valley, Khorasan, See also: Maragha and See also: Mosul, arrived at See also: Ani in 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 patriarch (as See also: Mar Yaballaha III.) in 1281, suggested See also: Bar Sauma's name to Arghun Khan, See also: sovereign of the Ilkhanate or Mongol-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 Mameluke power, with the 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 emperor, the See also: pope and the See also: kings of See also: France and See also: England
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In 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: king of France (
See also: Philip the
See also: Fair)
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In See also: Gascony he apparently met the king of England (See also: Edward I.) at a place which seems to be See also: Bordeaux, but of which he speaks as the capital of Alanguitar (i.e
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Angleterre)
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On returning to Rome, he was cordially received by the newly elected pontiff Nicolas IV., who gave him communion on Palm See also: Sunday, 1288, allowed him to celebrate his own Eucharist in the capital of Latin Christendom, commissioned him to visit the Christians of the See also: East, and entrusted to him the See also: tiara which he presented to Mar Yaballaha
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His narrative is of unique See also: interest as giving a picture of See also: medieval See also: Europe at the close of the Crusading See also: period, painted by a keenly intelligent, broad-minded and statesmanlike observer
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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
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566–61o; 1894, pp
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73–143, 235–300; O
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Raynaldus, Annales Ecclesiastici (continuation of See also: Baronius), A.D
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1288, §§ See also: xxxv.–xxxvi
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;1289, § lxi
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; L
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See also: Wadding, Annales Minorum, v
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169, 196, 170–173; C
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R
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Beazley, Dawn ofSee also: Modern Geography, ii
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15, 352; iii
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12, 189–190, 539–541
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