RRR:
2616
YEAR:
1248
text:
†* c. beginning of 1248. An almost certainly fictive report in an Arabic source from c. 1330 to the effect that Frederick II wrote to the sultan of Egypt as-Ṣāliḥ Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb warning of Louis IX’s plans to conquer Egypt and Jerusalem despite Frederick’s efforts to dissuade him. Louis is said to be bringing over 60,000 men to Cyprus later in the year.
Sources:
Qaraṭāy al-‘Izzī al-Khazāndāri, Ta’rīkh majmū’ al’nawādir. English translation in Jackson The Seventh Crusade, pp. 46-47. See also RRR 2679
