ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU. - French Dominican, lived in the 13th century. He was commissioned, along with others, by St. Louis, King of France, to go to Constantinople to fetch the relic of the holy crown (1238). Sent by Pope Innocent IV to the "king of the Tartars," he reached as far as Tabriz in Persia, where he made contact with a Mongol chief (1245-47). He accompanied St. Louis on the crusade (1248-54) and was sent by him to the great Khan of the Mongols, Güyük, whom he found dead (1249-51). St. Louis, on his deathbed, recalled a mission of Friar A. to Tunisia (between 1254 and 1270), otherwise unknown. He knew Arabic and Persian. He left no account of his travels.

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BIBL.: P. Pelliot, Les Mongols et la papauté, in Revue de l'Orient chrétien, 23 (1922-23), pp. 3-30; 24 (1924), pp. 225-335; 28 (1931-32), pp. 3-84; (this last article is entirely devoted to Friar A. of Longjumeau); G. Soranzo, Il papato, l'Europa cristiana e i Tartari, Milan 1930, passim.

Raimondo Loenerta

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Andrew of Longjumeau

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