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1247

RRR: 
1247
RRH: 
663
Other: 
Chroust, Tageno, pp. 202-3
YEAR: 
1187
text: 
Mid Oct. [220] Bohemond III princeps Antiocenus sends a general letter to all Christian prelates, clergy and people. Saladin has killed Templars and Hospitallers and imprisoned the king [of Jerusalem]. He has seized the relic of the True Cross and is besieging Jerusalem. Ascalon has fallen and is without Christian inhabitants. Nazareth has been occupied by the Turci. Acre, and the territory as far as Tyre, Ascalon and Jerusalem is lost and the Christian religion in that region is no more. Only the principality of Antioch survives. Bohemond is sending the Tharsensis archiepiscopus, Antioceni principatus cancellarius, to the West to plead for assistance.

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Sources: 
Chroust, Tageno, pp. 202-3 (RRH no. 663)
Comments: 
[220] The reference to the loss of Jerusalem must date this letter to a period when the news of the loss of Jerusalem on 2 October had reached Antioch. So it must be later than the letter from the patriarch of Antioch, who had not yet heard the the city’s fall.
GRANTOR: 
Bohemond III, prince of Antioch
RECIPIENT: 
All Christian prelates, clergy and people

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