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RRR:
Agreement/treaty
2387
year: 1240
initiator: Leaders of the crusade in Palestine
recipient: Sultan of Damascus
institution: Templars
text: Mid Summer. A truce, negotiated by the Knights Templar, is agreed with the sultan of Damascus and sworn by the leaders of the crusade in Palestine. It involves the return to the Christians of all land west of the River Jordan and an offensive alliance against Egypt. Mid Summer. A truce, negotiated by the Knights Templar, is agreed with the sultan of Damascus and sworn by the leaders of the crusade in Palestine. It involves the return to the Christians of all land west of the River Jordan and an offensive alliance against Egypt.
sources: Philip of Novara, Guerra, pp. 216-18; ‘l’Estoire de Eracles’, pp. 417-18; ‘Le manuscrit de Rothelin’, pp. 551-3 [363]
comments: [363] For a reconstruction of the truce from the fragmentary references in Arabic sources, see Jackson, ‘The Crusades of 1239-41’, p. 43, note 65.

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