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William of Rubruck ( Dutch: Willem van Rubroeck; Latin: Gulielmus de Rubruquis; fl. 1248–1255) or Guillaume de Rubrouck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. He is best known for his travels to various parts of the Middle East and Central Asia in the 13th century, including the Mongol Empire. His account of his travels is one of ...
A Flemish Franciscan monk, William of Rubruck (Willem van Ruysbroeck, ca. 1210-ca. 1270) wrote the most detailed and valuable of the early Western accounts of the Mongols. William had participated in the crusade of King Louis IX of France to Palestine and there heard about the Mongols from friar Andrew of Longjumeau, a Dominican who had been ...
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These words written by Friar William of Rubruck (c.1210 - c.1270) in his report to King Louis IX of France preface a detailed account of the Flemish Franciscan monk’s travels to the Mongolian courts of Batu and Möngke Khan in 1253-1255. William of Rubruck undertook his mission to the Mongols with the dual purpose of promoting conversion to ...
Jan 1, 2000 · WILLIAM OF RUBRUCK, Friar (fl. 1253-1255), a Flemish Franciscan missionary who traveled through the lands that the Mongols had conquered in the Crimea, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Asia Minor between 1253 and 1255. Apart from references in the Opus Maius of his fellow-Franciscan Roger Bacon (see below), his report to the French king Louis IX ...
William of Rubruck (c. 1220 – c. 1293, or ca. 1210-ca. 1270) was a Flemish Franciscan missionary, monk and explorer. His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta and is the most detailed and valuable of the early Western accounts of the Mongols and their leader at the time Mongke Khan.
Jan 4, 2019 · Voyage of William of Rubruck in 1253 – 1255. On January 4, 1254, Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer William of Rubruck was granted the privilege of an audience at the great Mongol Möngke Khan in his court in Karakorum . The Franciscan explorer was one of the first Europeans to study the culture of the Mongols.
Rubruck, we can assume that Louis's intercession was successful. After this, Rubruck disappears from view.2 Because Rubruck's Itinerarium was in the nature of a private letter and not the account of an official embassy, it seems to have barely circulated, and we may have Bacon to thank that it was preserved at all, for the four principal surviving
