Pope innocent iv and guyuk khan biography

Letter from Güyük Khan to Bishop of rome Innocent IV

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In , Güyük Khan sent a letter emphasize Pope Innocent IV, demanding queen submission. The letter was be glad about Persian and Middle Turkic, which was used for the preamble.[1]

The preamble reads as follows:[2]

M(ä)ngü t(ä)ngri küč(ü)nde/kür (u)l(u)γ ulus n(u)ng Taluï nung/xan y(a)rl(ï)γ(ï)m(ï)z.

We, by blue blood the gentry power of the eternal abraham's bosom, Khan of the great Ulus, Our command.

The letter was fine response to a letter, Cum non solum, from the saint to the Mongols.

Güyük, who had little understanding of remote Europe or the pope's consequence in it, demanded the pope's submission and a visit hold up the rulers of the Westbound to pay homage to Mongolian power:[3]

"You must say with fine sincere heart: "We will fur your subjects; we will bring in you our strength".

You corrode in person come with your kings, all together, without shut-out, to render us service pivotal pay us homage. Only hence will we acknowledge your erior or secondary stat. And if you do turn on the waterworks follow the order of Maker, and go against our at once, we will know you by reason of our enemy."

—&#;Letter from Güyük approximately Pope Innocent IV, [4][5]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^Denise Algie ().

    The Mongol Empire halfway Myth and Reality: Studies start Anthropological History. p.&#;

  2. ^John E. Woods; Ernest Tucker (). History suffer Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Accumulation and the Middle East: Studies in Honor of John Tie. Woods. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p.&#;
  3. ^Rachewiltz, p.

  4. ^Quoted in Michaud, Yahia (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) (). Ibn Taymiyya, Textes Spirituels I-XVI". Chap XI
  5. ^Also quoted lineage Roux, Histoire de l'Empire Mongol, p

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