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

La Voyage d'Outremer

Written by Burgundian traveler Bertrandon de la Broquière, La Voyage d'Outremer relates his voyage to the Holy Land, where he overhears (and later records) a story from a Peter of Naples about Prester John's whereabouts in southern Africa.

The text records that Prester John is "a good Catholic and obedient to the Church of Rome," has an army of four million, and rules over a people who are "neither white nor black, but are of a yellow-brown colour." In this account Prester John also goes to war with the Great Khan. 

It is edited and translated in Brewer (pp. 214-216) 

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