Joseph L. Rife (eds.), "Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.11.3" in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/339
  
    
      
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        Caesareae, and Caesarea are directly attested at Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.11.3. This passage was written ca. 1306-1321 C.E. possibly in Aegean Greece.
      Marino Sanudo the Elder of Torcello, from a wealthy and powerful Venetian
        family, was a statesman and geographer who spent much of his career from the late 13th
        century until his death in 1338 living and travelling abroad, particularly in the
        Peloponnese and Aegean islands, Cyprus and Cilicia, Constantinople, the Levant, and Egypt,
        but also in western and northern Europe. A learned and eloquent advocate for a new crusade
        to the Holy Land, he wrote the voluminous Secrets for Those Faithful to the
          Cross (Secreta fidelium Crucis), a strategic manual full of
        economic, military, and geographic detail as well as maps, and presented different versions
        of it to popes Clement V (in 1307) and John XXII (in 1321). This passage from Marino
        Sanudo’s account of the Holy Land relates how in 1208 a congress of leaders sought advice
        from Philip II of France on the marriage of the young Maria of Montferrat to secure the
        Kingdom of Jerusalem. Among the ambassadors was Aymar, the Lord of Caesarea.
      
        
        Demum videntes barones
        regni Ierusalem Mariam puellam iam nubilem, convenientes cum Ierosolymitano Patriarcha
        ceterisque prelatis ac militibus, coeperunt de sponso perquirere qui sciret et posset regni
        iura tueri. Et tandem communiter deliberant ad Philippum regem Franciae transmittere, qui de
        homine apto provideat ad gubernandum ac defensandam residuum Terrae Sanctae quod remanserat
        Christianis. Nuntii quoque sollemnes ad hoc mittuntur episcopus Ptolomensis et Aymarus qui
        ratione uxoris dominus erat Caesareae MCCVIII. Per Massiliam igitur
        transeuntes in Franciam, legationis causam exponunt regi. Ille grate receptis nuntiis
        celeriter ait deliberatione praevia se nuntios expedire.
      
        
        Ed. Bongars
          1611
        Minor corr. (spelling, punctuation)
      
      
        
        At last the barons of
        the Kingdom of Jerusalem, seeing that the girl Maria was now ready for marriage, meeting
        with the Patriarch of Jerusalem and other prelates and knights, began to search prudently
        for a husband with the knowledge and ability to safeguard the rule of the Kingdom. Finally
        they all agreed to send a message to Philip, King of France, who might provide a man
        suitable for governing and defending what was left of the Holy Land to the Christians. Sent
        for this purpose, besides official ambassadors, were the Bishop of Ptolomaÿs and Aymar, who
        was Lord of Caesarea by his wife, in 1208. Therefore, crossing into
        France through Massilia, they explained to the King the reason for their mission. When he
        had welcomed the ambassadors graciously, he quickly said that, according to earlier
        consultation, he would ready (his own) ambassadors.
      
        
        
        Adapted from
          Lock 2011
      
      
        Works Cited
        
          
          3.11.3
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          325
        
      
    
      
        France
        Jerusalem
        Massilia (Marseille)
        Ptolomayda (Ptolemaïs, Accaron, Acco, Accho, Acre, Akko)
      
      
        Aymar, Lord of Caesarea
        Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem
        Philip II, King of France
      
      
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