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===Diplomatic moves (1302)=== Beginning of 1302, Ghazan again sent a message to Edward I through an embassy led by [[Buscarello de Ghisolfi]].<ref>Luisetto, p.103</ref> Edward I answered personally in March 1302, explaining that he welcomed combined actions but that he was caught up with conflicts at home: {{quote|"The wars that trouble Christiandom have blocked us for a long time from taking, as we would like, resolutions regarding the Holy Land. But when the Pope will have established favourable conditions, we will gladly commit all our forces to this enterprise, for which we wish a successful outcome, more than anything in the world."|Letter from Edward I to Ghazan, 12 March 1302, [[Westminster]].<ref>Quoted in Luisetto, p.116</ref>}} On April 12, 1302, [[Mahmud Ghazan|Ghazan]] sent a letter and an embassy to [[Pope Boniface VIII]], apparently in answer to an encouraging letter by the latter suggesting Western troops would be dispatched for the 1302/1303 offensive.<ref>"Ghazan's letter to Boniface VIII, dated 12 April, 1302, suggests that, having received an encouraging letter from the Pope, he counted on Christian participation in his expedition to Syria in 1303.</ref> [[Image:Letter by Ilkhan Ghazan to Pope Boniface VIII1302.jpg|thumb|Letter from Ghazan to [[Pope Boniface VIII]], April 12th, 1302. Vatican archives.]] {{quote|"We for our part, are making our preparations. You too should prepare your troops, send word to the rulers of the various nations and not fail to keep the rendezvous. Heaven willing, we shall make the great work [i.e. the war. against the Mamelukes] our sole aim."|Letter from Ghazan to Pope Boniface VIII, 1302.<ref>A. Mostaert and F. W. Cleaves,. "Trois documents mongols des Archives secretes vaticanes", H.J AJ. xv,. 419-506 [http://jss.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/9/2/395-b.pdf Journal of Semitic Studies]</ref>}} Ghazan's ambassadors stayed at the court of [[Charles II of Anjou]]. When they returned to Persia after April 27, 1303, they were accompanied by [[Gualterius de Lavendel]], as ambassador of Charles II to Ghazan.<ref>Schein, p.813</ref>
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