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Showing posts with label William Rubruck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Rubruck. Show all posts
15 May 2025

The Great Mongol Hope

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Pope Honorius III (fl.1216 - 1227), in a letter dated 20 June 1221, referred to "forces coming from the Far East to rescue the Holy Lan...
04 April 2024

John of Plano Carpini

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Marco Polo is known for traveling to the Far East from Europe and observing things unknown to Europeans, but there were many travelers from ...
08 September 2023

The Golden Horde

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The name "Golden Horde" for the northwestern section of the Mongolian Empire is the English translation of a borrowed phrase from ...
12 March 2022

Möngke Khan Ascends

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Möngke Khan (11 January 1209 - 11 August 1259) was the son of Tolui (c.1190 - c.1232), the youngest son of Genghis Khan. Möngke had been suc...
30 March 2016

The Seventh Crusade

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King Louis IX of France could not convince any of the rulers of Europe to accompany him on a Crusade to free Jerusalem, which had been reca...
11 August 2014

Möngke Khan

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Among the western Europeans who traveled eastward and wrote of the wonders of "The Orient," we have mentioned William Rubruck  ...
06 August 2012

Before Marco, There was William

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Everyone's heard of Marco Polo (1254-1324) and his travels with his Venetian uncles to the Far East. He was not alone, however, in leavi...
04 July 2012

Fireworks

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In honor of Independence Day in the USA... Everyone knows that to discuss the history of fireworks means talking about China and Marco Pol...
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