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David of Ashby (fl. 1260–1275)( Travellers | Cities | Routes | Trade Goods | Themes ) This is just a draft, collecting materials from Wikipedia and other sites for the time being:
David of Ashby - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_of_Ashby David of Ashby (fl. 1260 – 1275) was an English-born Dominican friar who was sent from the Holy Land city of Acre to the Mongol ruler Hulagu in 1260, by the ... David of Ashby was an English-born Dominican friar who was sent from the Holy Land city of Acre to the Mongol ruler Hulagu in 1260, by the Papal legate Thomas Agni de Lentino.[1] He stayed around 15 years among the Mongols, and only returned from Iran in 1274. David of Ashby was a member of the Mongol embassy to the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, sent by Abaqa. The embassy arrived on 5 July 1274. David was accompanied by the clerk Rychaldus, in the service of the Mongols, and 14 Mongol dignitaries. The leader of the Mongols underwent baptism on this occasion, on 16 July.[2] David of Ashby wrote a book entitled Les fais des Tatares ("The facts about the Tartars") describing the culture of the Tatars and their remarkable military organization and discipline. See also: Franco-Mongol alliance Notes [1] Roux, p.379 [2] Jean-Richard, p.452 References Demurger, Alain (2007). Jacques de Molay (in French). Editions Payot&Rivages. ISBN 2-228-90235-7. Grousset, René (1935). Histoire des Croisades III, 1188-1291 (in French). Editions Perrin. ISBN 2-262-02569-X Jackson, Peter (2005). The Mongols and the West: 1221-1410. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-36896-5. Richard, Jean (1996). Histoire des Croisades. Fayard. ISBN 2-213-59787-1 Roux, Jean-Paul (1993). Histoire de l'Empire Mongol. Fayard. ISBN 2-213-03164-9
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David d'Ashby auteur méconnu des Faits des Tartares - Persée Encyclopedia Iranica (Peter Jackson):
DAVID OF ASHBY – Encyclopaedia Iranica DAVID OF ASHBY (fl. 1260-75), Dominican friar and visitor to Il-khanid Persia. Early in 1260 he was sent from Acre by Thomas Agni di Lentino, bishop of Bethlehem and papal legate to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, on a diplomatic mission to the Mongol prince and future Il-khan Hulāgu (Hülegü, r. 1256-65), who had recently taken Aleppo (Scheler, p. 27). Ashby must have accompanied Hulāgu when the prince withdrew to northwestern Persia with the bulk of his forces later that year, since a report by envoys from Hulāgu’s son and successor, the Il-khan Abāqā (r. 1265-82), arriving at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 under Ashby’s escort, states that he had spent many years in Il-khanid territory and witnessed several Mongol campaigns (Lupprian, p. 230). It is unclear as to when he returned to the West, but he is described at Lyons as the ambassador of both the patriarch of Jerusalem (then the above-mentioned Thomas Agni) and of King Hugues III of Cyprus and Jerusalem (Lupprian, p. 229), while Edward I of England would shortly refer to him as a member of the patriarch’s household and his chaplain (‘capellanus et familiaris’; see Rymer, I, pt. 2, p. 144). Abāqā’s embassy was designed to gain Western European cooperation against the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt (Amitai, pp. 646-47). In their report the envoys cited Ashby as a witness that both Hulāgu and Abāqā had seen to the liberation of Christians previously enslaved by the Muslims and had sent them on to the Mediterranean coast (Lupprian, p. 230), and that the former had returned the Holy Land to Christian rule (Idem, p. 229). These claims, which presumably relate to the brief Mongol occupation of Palestine in 1260, are not corroborated in any other source. Hulāgu was also alleged to have opened his heart to Ashby concerning his attachment to the Christian faith and his desire for baptism (Idem, p. 229). Much of this is highly tendentious, and it was doubtless intended to convince the West that the Il-khan was a reliable ally, though the Armenian historian Vardan Arewelcʿi claims to have heard Hulāgu express similarly pro-Christian sentiments (Thomson, pp. 220-21). Nothing came of the negotiations at Lyons, and Edward I, responding on 26 January 1275 to a letter from Abāqā that Ashby had brought him, was unable to guarantee that a crusade was imminent (Rymer, I, pt. 2, p. 144). Ashby then disappears from sight, having no doubt returned to the East as the English king’s envoy to the Il-khan. Ashby produced a treatise on the Mongols, entitled Les fais des Tatares, of which the only known text, contained in a manuscript in the royal library at Turin, was destroyed by fire in 1904; there survives merely a description of the manuscript, published in 1867 together with a transcription of one chapter (Scheler, pp. 26-28). The fact that the language was evidently closer to that of Languedoc than to Anglo-French presents no problem if, as is possible, the Turin text represented a translation made by someone else at Lyons from Ashby’s Latin original. The chapters appear to have been concerned with the Mongols’ lifestyle and particularly with military matters. Although the presence of Abāqā’s envoys at the Council had aroused great optimism in Western Europe, Ashby himself was seemingly no advocate of the Il-khanid alliance, since he describes the Mongols, at the beginning of Les fais, as ‘this accursed race’ (‘ceste malite gent’). Bibliography: R. Amitai, “Il-khanids i. Dynastic History,” EIr XII/6, 2004, pp. 645-54. Clovis Brunel, “David d’Ashby auteur méconnu des Faits des Tartares,” Romania 79, 1958, pp. 39-46. Peter Jackson, “Ashby, David of,” The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement, available (by subscription) at www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/92435 (accessed on 6 March 2009). Idem, The Mongols and the West, 1221-1410, Harlow, 2005, Index, s.v. ‘David of Ashby.’ Karl-Ernst Lupprian, ed., Die Beziehungen der Päpste zu islamischen und mongolischen Herrschern im 13. Jahrhundert anhand ihres Briefwechsels,Vatican City, 1981, document no. 44, pp. 226-30. Jacques Paviot, “England and the Mongols (c. 1260-1330),” JRAS, 3rd series, 10, 2000, pp. 305-18. Burkhard Roberg, “Die Tartaren auf dem 2. Konzil von Lyon 1274,” Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 5, 1973, pp. 241-302. Th. Rymer, ed., Foedera, conventiones, litterae et cuiuscumque generis acta publica inter reges Angliae et alios quosvis imperatores, reges, pontifices, principes vel communitates ab ineunte saeculo duodecimo, viz. ab anno 1101 ad nostra usque tempora habita aut tractata, 3rd ed., Amsterdam, 1739-45; repr. Farnborough, 1967. A. Scheler, “Notices et extraits de deux manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Royale de Turin,” Le Bibliophile Belge, 3e série, 2, 1867, pp. 1-33. Robert W. Thomson, “The Historical Compilation of Vardan Arewelcʿi,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 34, 1989, pp. 125-226. March 6, 2009
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