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===Overtures from Clement V=== [[Pope Clement V|Clement V]] ordered studies on the preparation of a new Crusade. On June 6, 1306, he invited the leaders of the Templars and Hospitallers for a consultation on this subject and that of the fusion of the Orders.<ref>Demurger, p.284</ref> In 1307 [[Jacques de Molay]] remitted a memorandum for a new Crusade.<ref>Demurger, p.202</ref> [[Image:HaytonRemittingHisReportToThePope.JPG|thumb|[[Hayton of Corycus]] remitting his report on the Mongols, to [[Pope Clement V]], in 1307.]] The Armenian monk [[Hayton of Corycus]] also went to visit Pope Clement V in [[Poitiers]], where he wrote his famous "Flor des Histoires d'Orient", a compilation of the events of the Holy Land describing the alliance with the Mongols, and setting recommendations for a new Crusade: {{quote|"God has also shown the Christians that the time is right because the Tartars themselves have offered to give help to the Christians against the Saracens. For this reason [[Muhammad Khodabandeh (Oljeitu)|Gharbanda]], King of the Tartars, sent his messengers offering to use all his power to undo the enemies of the Christian land. Thus, at present, the Holy Land might be recovered with the help of the Tartars and the realm of Egypt, easily conquered without peril or danger. And so Christian forces ought to leave for the Holy Land without any delay.|Hayton, Flor des Estoires d'Orient, Book IV.<ref>[http://rbedrosian.com/hetum5.htm Flor des Estoires d'Orient, Book IV]</ref>}} Another embassy was sent to the West in 1307, led by [[Tommaso Ugi di Siena]], an Italian described as Oljeitu's ''ildüchi'' ("Sword-bearer").<ref>Peter Jackson, p.173</ref><ref>Demurger, p.203</ref> This embassy encouraged Pope Clement V to speak in 1307 of the strong possibility that the Mongols could remit the [[Holy Land]] to the Christians, and to declare that the Mongol embassy from Oljeitu "cheered him like spiritual sustenance".<ref>Peter Jackson, ''The Mongols and the West'', p.171</ref> Relations were quite warm: in 1307, the Pope named [[John of Montecorvino]] the first [[Archbishop]] of [[Khanbalik]] and Patriarch of the Orient.<ref>Foltz, p.131</ref> A corps of Frank [[mangonel]] specialists is known to have accompanied the Ilkhanid army in the conquest of [[Herat]] in 1307.<ref>Peter Jackson, ''The Mongols and the West'', p.315</ref> In 1308, Oljeitu actively participated to a [[Byzantine-Mongol alliance]] by supplying 30,000 men to the Byzantine emperor [[Andronikos II Palaiologos|Andronicus II]] to recover many Byzantine towns in [[Bithynia]].<ref>I. Heath, ''Byzantine Armies: AD 1118–1461'', pp. 24–33.</ref> On April 4, 1312, a Crusade was promulgated by [[Pope Clement V]] at the [[Council of Vienne]]. Another embassy was sent by Oljeitu to the West and to [[Edward II of England|Edward II]] in 1313.<ref>Peter Jackson, p.172</ref> That same year, the French king [[Philippe le Bel]] "took the cross", making the vow to go on a Crusade in the Levant, thus responding to Clement V's call for a Crusade. He was however warned against leaving by [[Enguerrand de Marigny]],<ref>Jean Richard, "Histoire des Croisades", p.485</ref> and died soon after in a hunting accident.<ref>Richard, p.485</ref> Oljeitu finally launched a last campaign against the Mamluks (1312-13), in which he was unsuccessful. A final settlement with the Mamluks would only be found when Oljeitu's son signed the [[Treaty of Aleppo]] with the [[Mamluks]] in 1322.
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