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Council/ruling decisions/legislation
1600 year: 1208
initiator: Sultan of Egypt
recipient: Naval officers of the Sultan of Egypt
text: Mar. 9 1208? The sultan of Egypt orders his naval officers to respect the safe conduct of all those going with the Venetians on pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre.
sources: Tafel and Thomas Urkunden 2:187-8, no. 244 (RRH no. 831)
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Council/ruling decisions/legislation
1607 year: 1208
initiator: Sultan of Egypt
recipient: Pisan and Venetian merchants
text: (c.1208). [288] At their request, the sultan of Egypt orders the release of Pisan and Venetian merchants - from Beirut, Crete and Jazirat ibn ‘Umar [Gazarta/Cizre] - who, travelling from Beirut to Cyprus, were driven off course and apprehended in Alexandria, being imprisoned there for a year.
sources: Amari, I diplomi arabi, pp. 70-1, no. 23 (RRH no. 836)
comments: [288] For the date, see Amari, I diplomi, p. 410.
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Agreement/treaty
2396 year: 1241
initiator: Sultan of Egypt
recipient: Conte Richart de Cornoaille
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Feb. 8. A truce, negotiated by the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, agreed with the sultan of Egypt and sworn by conte Richart de Cornoaille, grants the Christians the territories already ceded by the sultan of Damascus and frees the Christian prisoners-of war taken at Gaza in 1239.
sources: Philip of Novara, Guerra, pp. 218-20; ‘L’Estoire de Eracles’, pp. 419-21; Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 4:138-44
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