RRR:
2739
YEAR:
1249
text:
†* May – early June. An exchange of letters of defiance between the king of France and the sultan of Egypt.
Sources:
Ibn al-Dawādārī, Kanz al-durar, pp. 366-68; RRH 1177 and 1179. In Professor Peter Jackson’s opinion, conveyed to the editors in correspondence, these letters are fourteenth-century fabrications.
