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  Speculum Historiale (1256-1269)
  
  One of the great encyclopedic works of the Middle Ages, Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum contains a large chunk of the otherwise lost 1246 account of Simon of St. Quentin's and Ascelin of Lombardia's mission to the Mongols in 1245. 
  
  From Guzman (footnote 11 on pg 233):

  "Vincent, copying from Simon of Saint-Quentin, records the popular rumor that Chinggis Khan married the daughter of King David, son of Prester John, and that the mother of Ogodei Khan was thus a Christian. This and the factors mentioned above led to numerous rumors of the Khan’s imminent conversion.”  

  To read the relevant portion of Vincent's Speculum Historiale in an English translation, see Book 32, chapters 2-52.