Letter from Aymeric, Patriarch of Antioch, to Louis VII, King of France (1164)
In the following letter, the Patriarch of Antioch describes events in the Crusader States that took place in 1164. To describe briefly, the King of Jersualem, Amalric I, joined forces with a Kurdish emir, Shirkuh, to besiege the Egyptian city of Bilbais. While Amalric was gone, the ruler of Damascus, …