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 | | At the Tatars' camp near Kars he met a certain David, who next year (1248) appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus. |
 | | Andrew, who was now with Saint Louis, interpreted David's message to the King, a real or pretended offer of alliance from the Mongol general Ilchikdai (Eljigidei), and a proposal of a joint attack upon the Islamic powers for the conquest of Syria. |
 | | In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to the great Kuyuk Khan; with Longjumeau went his brother (a monk) and several others â” John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert "Le Sommelier," Gerbert of Sens, Robert (a clerk), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy. |
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