RRR:
2741
YEAR:
1249
text:
c. mid. June. Iohannes monachus de Pontiniaco reports that after the capture of Damietta the king of France needs more men to garrison it and colonists, for whom he has brought agricultural equipment (aratra, ligones, trahae et alia rusticana instrumenta). Iohannes describes an exchange between the sultan of Egypt and the king, ironical on the part of the sultan, committed on the part of the king. He adds that the Christian fleet contained 120 dromones, together with galleys and smaller ships (galeae et naves minores), and that the king prayed for divine assistance on landing.
Sources:
Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:163, no. 83. English translation in Jackson, Seventh Crusade, p. 92
