Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction.
- Ruy González de Clavijo
- Date:
- [1928]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![marches with Armenia aforesaid. Then Timur over¬ came in battle the lord of India the Less taking from him the greater part of his territory: while on the other quarter he sacked the city of Damascus, taking posses¬ sion also of Aleppo, and lastly occupied all Mesopo¬ tamia with Baghdad. Again he overran and ravaged various other coun¬ tries and kingdoms, gaining many battles and making many conquests until at laál he came againál the Turkish Sultan Báyazíd surnamed Ilderim [the Thunderbolt] who was one of the greatest and mosd potent sovereigns that the world has seen. In his lands of Turkey Timur brought him to battle nearby a certain caátle and city which is called Angora. In that battle Timur conquered taking the Turkish Sultan prisoner, him and one of his sons. Nov/ it fell out that present at the time of that battle were two ambassadors come from the high and mighty lord Don Henry by the grace of God King of Cavile and Leon—whom God preserve—and the names of these two men were Payo de Sotomayor and Hernán Sánchez de Palazuelos. These two had been sent by King Henry to enquire and report as to the power and might pertaining on the one hand to this Timur Beg and on the other hand to the Turkish Sultan Ilderim, and to make note as to the number of the following and multitude of those peoples whom either party could bring againáf his rival, and thus to report which of the two parties would be moát like to gain in the struggle. It came about that after this battle of Angora the lord Timur had notice of the presence of these ambassa¬ dors, namely Payo and Herman Sánchez, and holding in respedt the King of Caátile he paid them much honour carrying them with him in his train and enter¬ taining them very nobly. Then learning from them all details as to the power of that high and mighty lord the King of Caátile, and of the great esleem in which he ^4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
