The regent-mother Oghul Qaimish ( the " Camus " of William of Rubruck ) seems to have received and dismissed him with presents and a letter for Louis IX, the latter a fine specimen of Mongol insolence.

The Franciscan missionary, William of Rubruck, in his work on Asian customs, declares that everything he had heard from Andrew on the subject was fully borne out by his own personal observations.

Plano Carpin, an envoy of the Papal states, and William Rubruck, an envoy of France, all wrote about their life under the Mongols.

Louis dispatched another envoy to the Mongol court, the Franciscan William of Rubruck, who went to visit the Great Khan Möngke Khan in Mongolia.

In 1254 Mongke Khan organized a formal religious debate ( in which William of Rubruck took part ) between Christians, Muslims and Buddhists in Karakorum, a cosmopolitan city of many religions.

* 1255 – May – William of Rubruck from Constantinople returns to Cyprus from his missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia, his efforts having been unsuccessful.

* May – King Louis IX of France dispatches William of Rubruck from Constantinople on a missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia.

* May – William of Rubruck from Constantinople returns to Cyprus from his missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia, his efforts having been unsuccessful.

In 1253, the Franciscan monk William of Rubruck reported numerous Europeans in Central Asia.

He had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau.

These include the Franciscan explorers Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in 1245 and William of Rubruck in 1253.

William of Rubruck says a certain " Vut ", lord of the Keraits and brother to the Nestorian King John, was defeated by the Mongols under Genghis.

* 1253-Franciscan William of Rubruck begins his journey to the Mongols

According to William of Rubruck and a Muslim chronicle, Batu killed the imperial envoy and one of his brothers murdered the Great Khan Guyuk.

* Gulielmus de Rubruquis, " The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World ", translated by V. W.

According to William of Rubruck and a Muslim chronicle, Batu then killed the imperial envoy, and one of his brothers murdered or poisoned the Great Khan Guyuk.

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This is widely believed to be a description of ancient kumis-making, and it matches up well enough with later accounts, such as this one given by 13th-century traveller William of Rubruck:

The first direct recorded encounter between European Christians and Buddhists was in 1253 when the king of France sent William of Rubruck as an ambassador to the court of the Mongol Empire.

Other thirteenth-century European travelers who journeyed to the court of the Great Khan were André de Longjumeau, William of Rubruck and Giovanni da Pian del Carpine with Benedykt Polak.

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According to William of Rubruck, he was killed in a violent brawl with Shiban.

During Mongke's reign, the French king Louis IX sent William Rubruck as a diplomat seeking an alliance with the Mongols against the Muslims.

After making the French envoy wait for many months, Mongke officially received William Rubruck on May 24, 1254.

* 1328 – William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.

The list of supposed members is immense ; among the more probable candidates are George Bubb Dodington, a fabulously corpulent man in his 60s ; William Hogarth, although hardly a gentleman, has been associated with the club after painting Dashwood as a Franciscan Friar and John Wilkes, though much later, under the pseudonym John of Aylesbury.

William of Ockham (; also Occam, Hockham, or several other spellings ; c. 1288 – c. 1348 ) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey.

William of Ockham joined the Franciscan order at an early age.

After Michael of Cesena's death in 1342, William became the leader of the small band of Franciscan dissidents living in exile with Louis IV.

* William of Ockham, English Franciscan friar and philosopher ( c. 1285 – 1347 )

* March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian

* 1285 – William of Ockham, English Franciscan to whom Occam's Razor is attributed ( approximate date ; d. 1349 )

These are customarily placed under the rubric of Ockham's razor, named after the 14th century Franciscan friar William of Ockham, who is credited with many different expressions of the maxim, not all of which have yet been found among his extant works.

Louis IV was assisted in his doctrinal dispute with the papacy by Marsilius of Padua and later by the English Franciscan friar and scholar William of Ockham.

Other important Franciscan scholastics were Duns Scotus, Peter Auriol and William of Ockham.

** William of Alnwick, Franciscan theologian ( d. 1333 )

William Briwere also went on to found the Franciscan Bridgwater Friary in the town.

Connected with the University were not only the English College, Douai, founded by William Allen, but also the Irish and Scottish colleges and the Benedictine, Franciscan and Jesuit houses.

* William of Alnwick, ( c. 1275 – 1333 ), Franciscan Theologian and Bishop of Giovinazzo.

The Defensorium seu Correctorium corruptorii librorum Sancti Thomæ Acquinatis against the Franciscan William de la Mare of Oxford is by some attributed to him ; but this remains uncertain.

In 1866, British Captain Charles William Wilson identified the remains of the synagogue, and in 1894, Franciscan Friar Giuseppe Baldi of Naples, the Custodian of the Holy Land, was able to recover a good part of the ruins from the Bedouins.

Her Franciscan confessor, William de St. Pathus, related that on cold nights Margaret would place a robe around Louis ' shoulders, when her deeply religious husband rose to pray.

Twelve years before in 1535 a Franciscan friar named William Peyto ( Peto, Petow ), d. 1558 or 1559, had preached before the King at Greenwich “ that God's judgements were ready to fall upon his head and that dogs would lick his blood, as they had done to Ahab ”.