RRR:
2714
YEAR:
1248
text:
*(October, shortly after the feast of Luke, 18 October) [Guillaume de Sonnac] master of the knights of the Temple, and [Guillaume de Courcelles marshal of the Hospital] write to Louis IX that the sultan of Egypt (as-Ṣāliḥ Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb) had come near Gaza with a large army seeking the aid of the sultan of Aleppo and Damascus [al Nāsir Yūsuf]. They fear that he might be planning to attack Jaffa or Caesarea
Sources:
Spicilegium, ed. D’Achery, 3:625; RRH 1168. English translation, Jackson, The Seventh Crusade, p. 75
