RRR:
2740
YEAR:
1249
text:
c. June 10. Frater W. de Senay magister pauperis militiae Templi informs frater Robertus de Sanford in Anglia preceptor of the capture of Damietta by King Louis IX of France, who reached the port on [4 June], landed his army on [the 5th], killing many pagans (pagani), with only one Christian fatality, and occupied Damietta, which had been abandoned, on [the 6th]. Louis intends to advance on Alexandria and Cairo (Babilon), to free Christian captives, including Knights Templar, and to subject the land to the Christian religion.
Sources:
Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:162, no. 82; RRH 1180. English translation in Jackson, Seventh Crusade, p. 91
