Abaqa is one in a long line…

1269 CE

Abaqa is one in a long line of Mongol rulers who attempt to secure Western cooperation against the Muslim Mamluks.

He had corresponded with Pope Clement IV through 1267-1268, and had reportedly sent a Mongol ambassador in 1268, trying to form a Franco-Mongol alliance between his forces, those of the West, and those of his father-in-law, Emperor Michael VIII.

He has received responses from Rome and from James I of Aragon, though it is unclear if this was what led to James’s unsuccessful expedition to Acre in 1269.

Abaqa is recorded as having written to the Aragonese king, saying that he was going to send his brother Aghai to join it when it arrived in Cilicia.

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Tabriz Azarbayjan-e Sharqi Iran View →

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