2890

RRR: 
2890
YEAR: 
1252
text: 
. Guillelmus, bishop of Orleans, writes to R[ichard], bishop of Chichester, reporting that the king of France has made a truce with the Saracens for fifteen years; that all the Kingdom of Jerusalem on this side of the River Jordan and all the captives have been restored, and that the residue of the ransom payment has been remitted. (According to a marginal note in the ms this amounted to 50,000 silver marks.).
Sources: 
Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 5:308-9

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