The Nestorian Christian monk Rabban Bar Sauma, …
Years: 1294 - 1294
The Nestorian Christian monk Rabban Bar Sauma, who had arrived in Europe from China in 1288 as an emissary of Kublai Khan, has visited Rome, Genoa, and Florence and met England's Edward I and France's Philip IV, as well as Pope Nicholas IV.
He dies in Baghdad in 1294.
Locations
People
Groups
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- France, (Capetian) Kingdom of
- Genoa, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Florence, Republic of
- Mongols
- England, (Plantagenet, Angevin) Kingdom of
- Mongol Empire
- Egypt and Syria, Mamluk Bahri Sultanate of
- Il-khanate
- Kublai Khan, Empire of
- Chinese Empire, Yüan, or Mongol, Dynasty
