1453.07.23

23 July, 1453
The Master Fr. Jean de Lastic to the "French" prior Fr. Nicole de Giresme: news on the fall of Constantinople; the prior is ordered to summon a provincial chapter, to raise the monies due to the Convent and to send a group of brethren to the East; news on Turkish galleys preparing an attack on Rhodes next April. - NLM Arch. 364, fol. 5v. Register. - Edited: R. Valentini, L'Egeo dopo la caduta di Costantinopoli nelle relazioni dei Gran Maestri di Rodi, in: Bulletino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo e Archivio Muratoriano 51 (1936), pp. 137-68, at pp. 159-61.

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first adaptation 01.04.2000 Jürgen Sarnowsky / revised 20.09.2008 /
status: calendar only /
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