Their Khakan, they said, had espoused the grandchild of Prester John, and had been baptized into the Faith.

He marched against Bagdad, and had sworn to root the heresy of Mahound from the earth.

Let the King of France make a league with him, and between them, pressing from east and west, they would accomplish the holy task.
Let him send teachers to expound the mysteries of Cod, and let him send knights who would treat on mundane things.

The letter, written in halting Latin and sealed with a device like a spider's web, urged instant warfare with Egypt.

"For the present we dwell far apart," wrote the Khakan; "therefore let us both get to business." So Aimery had been summoned to the King's chamber, where he found his good master, the Count of St.Pol, in attendance with others.