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The first authentic mention of Prester John is to be found in the "Chronicle" of Otto, Bishop of Freising, in 1145. Otto gives as his authority Hugo, Bishop of Gabala. The latter, by order of the Christian prince, Raymond of Antioch, went in 1144 (after the fall of Edessa) to Pope Eugene III, to report the grievous position of Jerusalem, and to ...
13 de fev. de 2017 · The Prester John legend describes a King who was also a Christian leader from a faraway land. His Christian kingdom was lost in the midst of Muslim and pagan nations, but the story told that the Patriarch of St. Thomas resided in this land. Reports allude to a country where pepper grows and people ride elephants, and where the Gates of ...
23 de nov. de 2022 · Prester John from a 15th-century painting. Image source: Wikimedia In 1165, a letter reached the Byzantine emperor Manuel Comnenus, Pope Alexander III, and the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick ...
28 de jul. de 2019 · The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which we get our knowledge of the legend.
9 de ago. de 2020 · The earliest known reference to the legend of Prester John dates to 1145. It’s important to note that in the previous year, the County of Edessa, the northernmost Crusader state, was captured by Zengi, the Seljuk governor of Mosul. The loss of Edessa sent shockwaves across Europe, leading to the Second Crusade in 1147.
8 de ago. de 2019 · Books. Prester John: The Legend and its Sources. Keagan Brewer. Routledge, Aug 8, 2019 - History - 352 pages. The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set ...
19 de abr. de 2024 · Prester John is the name given to a mythical medieval Christian priest-king of a vast empire in Central Asia, and later in Ethiopia. His first appearance in historical documents is in the Chronicle of Otto of Fresingen, who heard word of a powerful Christian sovereign reigning in the East in 1145 from a Syrian bishop who had arrived at the Papal Court in Viterbo.
