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
Pope Alexander III
1media/Map_of_Angelino_Dulcert_cropped.jpg2015-06-12T10:59:57-07:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f52815image_header2016-01-29T07:55:25-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fBorn Roland of Siena, Pope Alexander III (c. 1100-1181) served as Pope from 1159 to 1181. His papacy was, in part, marked by a longstanding power struggle with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who acquiesced the Alexander in the Peace of Venice. That same year (1177), Alexander allegedly penned a letter to Prester John, urging the priest-king to be instructed in Catholicism by Alexander's personal physician, Master Phillip.
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