Benedict the Pole

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Benedict the Pole

Franciscan monk

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Giovanni da Pian del Carpini
…at Breslau (now Wrocław) by Benedict the Pole, another Franciscan appointed to act as interpreter. The mission entered the Mongol posts at Kanev and thereafter crossed the Dnieper, Don, and Volga rivers. On the Volga stood the ordu, or “camp,” of Batu, the supreme commander on the western frontiers of…
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…at Breslau (now Wrocław) by Benedict the Pole, another Franciscan appointed to act as interpreter. The mission entered the Mongol posts at Kanev and thereafter crossed the Dnieper, Don, and Volga rivers. On the Volga stood the ordu, or “camp,” of Batu, the supreme commander on the western frontiers of…
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