The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

Cardinal Guillaume Fillastre

Cardinal Guillaume Fillastre (1344-1428), based in Rome mentions Ethiopian Emperor Yeshaq's embassy to the court King Afonso V of Aragon in his annotations to Ptolemy's Geography. As Salvadore (p. 40) translates,

Two ambassadors of Prester John, one Christian and the other infidel came to Alfonso king of Aragon in the year of our Lord 1427."
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Christians of Prester John, who is said to reign over seventy-two kings, of which twelve are infidels, the rest Christians yet different in rituals and mores. Little is known of [what is] beyond the equator with the exception of the great region of Agisimba [Abyssinia], which is included in this map and drawn at the south end. 

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