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

Riccoldo da Monte di Croce

Florentine Riccoldo da Monte di Croce (c. 1243-1320) was a Dominican friar, missionary, and writer who left around 1286 for a journey first to Acre and then to western Asia, where he attempted to covert the court of Mongol Il-Khan and, later, communities of Nestorian Christians to Catholicism. He was given permission by the Mongols to build a Catholic church in Baghdad to mixed success. 

His Itinerarius includes a brief mention of Prester John. 


 

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