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2471 year: 1244
initiator: Patriarch Robert of Jerusalem
text: Beginning of Nov. Patriarch Robert of Jerusalem despatches a general letter describing the disasters that have befallen the Holy Land. He refers to the loss of Jerusalem and the catastrophe on the plain de Gadár [La Forbie], where the deaths include 312 fratres milites and 324 turropli of the Knights Templar, 325 fratres milites and 200 turropli of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 400 brothers of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans - only 3 survived - all the milites leprosi of the leprosary of St Lazarus, the domnus Cayphas and all his people. Comes Gualterius de Zaphes was captured and all his men killed, as were 300 milites of the prince of Antioch and 300 milites of the king of Cyprus. Also slain were the archbishop of Tyre and all his men and the bishop of Ramla. 16000 Franks and as many others were lost. The [allied] Muslim army, numbering more than 25000 Saraceni, led by the sultans of Damascus and Homs [Camele], a great Saracenus called Nas, and the forces of Aleppo, betrayed the Christians.
sources: Salimbene de Adam, p. 177 (RRH no. 1124)
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