RRR:
2770
YEAR:
1250
text:
After May 6 (surrender of Damietta) J. cancellarius writes to Earl Richard of Cornwall who has been informed by a certain clerk of his who has been sent by the queen of France describing King Louis’s advance on Cairo. The king left the duke of Burgundy, the queen and the other wives of the magnates in Damietta. The advance guard comprising the count of Artois, the master of the Temple and William Longa-spata fought their way across a branch of the Nile and against the advice of the Templars pushed on into Mansurah (Mansor). There they were killed. The king subsequently attempted to return to Damietta but was surrounded and captured. To regain his freedom he paid 100,000 silver marks and surrendered Damietta.
Sources:
Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 5:165-69
