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See also:ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU (Longumeau, Lonjumel, &c.) , a See also:French Dominican, explorer and diplomatist. He accompanied the See also:mission under See also:Friar Ascelin, sent by See also:Pope See also:Innocent IV. to the See also:Mongols in 1247; at the Tatar See also:camp near See also:Kars he met a certain See also:David, who next See also:year (1248) appeared at the See also:court of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis IX. of See also:France in See also:Cyprus. Andrew, who was now with St Louis, interpreted to the king David's See also:message, a real or pretended offer of See also:alliance from the Mongol See also:general Ilchikdai (Ilchikadai), and a proposal of a See also:joint attack upon the Islamic See also:powers for the See also:conquest of See also:Syria. In reply to this the French See also:sovereign despatched Andrew as his See also:ambassador to the See also:great See also:Khan Kuyuk; with Longjumeau went his See also:brother (a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk) and several others—John Goderiche, See also:John of See also:Carcassonne, See also:Herbert " le sommelier," See also:Gerbert of See also:Sens, See also:Robert a clerk, a certain See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William, and an unnamed clerk of See also:Poissy. The party set out about the 16th of See also:February 1249, with letters from King Louis and the papal See also:legate, and See also:rich presents, including a See also:chapel-See also:tent, lined with See also:scarlet See also:cloth and embroidered with sacred pictures. From Cyprus they went to the See also:port of See also:Antioch in Syria, and thence travelled for a year to the khan's court, going ten leagues a See also:day. Their route led them through See also:Persia, along the See also:southern and eastern shores of the See also:Caspian (whose inland See also:character, unconnected with the See also:outer ocean, their See also:journey helped to demonstrate), and probably through Talas, See also:north-See also:east of See also:Tashkent. On arrival at the supreme Mongol court—either that on the Imyl See also:river (near See also:Lake See also:Ala-kul and the See also:present Russo-See also:Chinese frontier in the See also:Altai), or more probably at or near See also:Karakorum itself, See also:south-See also:west of Lake Baikal—Andrew found Kuyuk Khan dead, poisoned, as the See also:envoy supposed. by See also:Batu's agents. The See also:regent-See also:mother Ogul Gaimish (the " See also:Camus " of See also:Rubruquis) seems to have received and dismissed him with presents and a
See also:letter for Louis IX., the latter a See also:fine specimen of Mongol insolence. But it is certain that before the friar had quitted "Tartary," Mangu Khan, Kuyuk's successor, had been elected. Andrew's See also:report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in See also:Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of See also:history and See also:fable; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their See also:leader, evidently Jenghiz Khan, with Prester John; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Tatar homeland, See also:close to the See also:prison of See also:Gog and Magog. On the other See also:hand, the envoy's See also:account of Tatar See also:manners is fairly accurate, and his statements about Mongol See also:Christianity and its prosperity, though perhaps exaggerated (e.g. as to the 800 chapels on wheels in the nomadic See also:host), are based on fact. Mounds of bones marked his road, witnesses of devastations which other historians See also:record in detail; See also:Christian prisoners, from See also:Germany, he found in the See also:heart of "Tartary" (at Talas); the ceremony of passing between two fires he was compelled to observe, as a bringer of gifts to a dead khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as See also:evidence of submission. This insulting behaviour, and the See also:language of the letter with which Andrew reappeared, marked the mission a failure: King Louis, says See also:Joinville, " se repenti fort."
We only know of Andrew through references in other writers: see especially William of Rubruquis in Recueil de voyages, iv. (See also:Paris, 1839), pp. 261, 265, 279, 296, 310, 353, 363, 370; Joinville, ed. Francisque See also:Michel (1858, &c.), pp. 142, &c.; See also:Jean See also:Pierre Sarrasin, in same vol., pp. 254-255 ; William of Nangis in Recueil See also:des historiens des Gaules, xx. 359-367; See also:Remusat, Memoires See also:sus See also:les relations politiques des princes chretiens . . . avec les . . . Mongols (1822, &c.), p. 52. (C. R.
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