The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six CenturiesMain MenuOrientation to ProjectPath One: 1122-1235Path Two: 1236-1310 ADPath Three : 1311-1460 ADPath Four : 1461-1520 ADPath Five: 1521-1699 ADPath Six: 1700-1800 ADChristopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f Global Middle Ages
Letter from King Henry IV to Prester John
1media/Screen Shot 2023-11-24 at 9.19.35 AM.png2023-11-24T08:02:46-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f52818image_header2024-01-04T16:17:51-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fIn a letter dated October 20, 1400, Henry IV, King of England (r. 1399-1413) writes a letter to the "King of Abyssinia, Prester John" in order to discuss a possible alliance against the Egyptian Muslim Mamluks. Curiously there is no mention of the actual name of the Ethiopian Emperor of the time, Dawit I, despite the fact that Dawit had previously sent embassies to Europe.
Read the letter in F.C. Hingeston (ed.), Royal and Historical Letters during the reign of Henry the Fourth (London, 1860), vol. 1, no.147, pp. 421-22.
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