2807

RRR: 
2807
YEAR: 
1251
text: 
. February 8. Anniversary sermons preached by Eudes of Châteauroux commemorating the dead at the battle of Mansurah (8 February 1250). Names Robert count of Artois and son of a king of France, Raoul count of Coucy, Roger lord of Roset, Robert de Coutenay as being among the slain.
Sources: 
Cole, The Preaching of the Crusades, pp. 235-43. English translation in Jackson, Seventh Crusade, pp. 170-73.
Comments: 
Note: These sermons were not necessarily preached in 1251 on the lst anniversary of the battle and could date to any year before Eudes’s death in 1273. For arguments that 1251 was the most likely date, see Cole, Riley-Smith and d’Avray, ‘Memorial Sermons’, p. 230.

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