Marco Polo’s book, released at the start of the 14th century, also discussed Prester John several times. Polo claimed that around the year 1200, Genghis sought to marry one of Prester John’s ...

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And others said that Prester John was a myth and did not actually exist. Stories of Prester John, also known as Presbyter John or John the Elder circulated throughout medieval European Christian.

Among Prester John’s subjects are the ten lost tribes of Israel, but there are no poor, no thieves, no adulterers. He lives in a fabulous palace, described in opulent detail, but is surrounded by ...

Eight hundred years ago, long before Vasco da Gama reached India, Europeans believed that a Christian priest-king called Prester John ruled India Eight hundred years ago, long before Vasco da Gama ...

Catherynne M. Valente, Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-59780-199-7 In 1165, a letter ostensibly written by the distant Christian king Prester John ...

Then Genghis traveled to Prester John’s lands with an army and killed him. Many believe the person Marco Polo referred to as Prester John was the ruler of the Keraites, a Mongol or Turkic tribe ...