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Jan 1, 2011 · Arghun planned to make a donation to th e French king of 20,000-30,000 knights, or to sell them at a reasonable price. 35 He now proposed to proceed to Damascus in early 1291.
The Arghun dynasty (Sindhi: ارغونن جي سلطنت) was a dynasty of either Mongol, Turkic or Turco-Mongol ethnicity, who ruled over the area between Southern Afghanistan and Sindh from the late 15th century to the early 16th century. The Arghuns claimed their descent and name from Ilkhanid-Mongol Arghun Khan. Arghun rule can be divided into two branches: the Arghun branch of Dhu'l-Nun ...
Rabban Bar Ṣawma ( Syriac language: ܪܒܢ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ c. 1220 – January 1294), also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma ( Chinese: 拉賓掃務瑪; pinyin: lābīn sǎowùmǎ ), was a Turkic ( Uyghur or possibly Ongud) monk turned diplomat of the "Nestorian" Church of the East in China. He is known for embarking on a pilgrimage from ...
Argun Khan. Arghun Khan (c. 1258 – 10 March 1291) was the fourth ruler of the Mongol empire's Ilkhanate, from 1284 to 1291. He was the son of Abaqa Khan, and like his father, was a devout Buddhist (although pro-Christian). He was known for sending several embassies to Europe in an unsuccessful attempt to form a Franco–Mongol alliance ...
Arghun was born to Abaqa Khan and his Christian princess wife, Haimash Khatun. Arghun himself had multiple wives, and his mother-in-law Bulughan Khatun raised Arghun's two sons Ghazan (whose birth mother was Qutlugh) and Öljeitü (whose birth mother was Uruk Khatun ), both of whom later succeeded him and eventually converted to islam.
Khutlubuga contributed to the fact that Demetrius was executed by the Mongol horde (1289), and Vakhtang II (r.1289–1292), the son of David VI Narin, was placed on the royal throne by Arghun, who in return gave Khutlubuga the abdication and amirship. Khutlubuga was a proud, arrogant and disobedient man by nature.
Sep 22, 2019 · You had some acknowledgement of Bar Sauma’s visit and Arghun’s message, of the Ilkhan’s friendly disposition towards Christians and Christianity, and then you got the argument for the pope’s worldly power as descended from that of Jesus, “son of the highest King,” a passage urging Arghun to convert, for “no one [was] exempt from ...
