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    Ruy González de Clavijo (died 2 April 1412) was a Castilian traveler and writer. In 1403–05 Clavijo was the ambassador of Henry III of Castile to the court...
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    Her source is González de Clavijo, Ruy; Markham, Clements R. (translation and comments) (1859), Narrative of the embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to...
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    Sotomayor and Hernán Sánchez de Palazuelos, and later on 21 May 1403, Ruy González de Clavijo, as ambassadors to Timur to discuss the possibility of an...
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    2024 – via Internet Archive. Clavijo, Ruy González de (1859) [1403–1406]. Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at...
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    sent a famous embassy to Timur's court in Samarkand in 1403–06, led by Ruy González de Clavijo, with two other ambassadors, Alfonso Paez and Gomez de Salazar...
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    mentioned the city under this name, and 15th-century Castillian traveler Ruy González de Clavijo stated that Samarkand was simply a distorted form of it. Along...
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    the gate. It is consistent with the fact that the Spanish ambassador Ruy González de Clavijo, in 1404, points out that the work was not completed. Pander:...
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    sultan translates loosely as "the Regal". Soltaniyeh was visited by Ruy González de Clavijo, who reported that the city was a hub of silk exportation...
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    began to show increasingly destructive tendencies during his rule. Ruy González de Clavijo, the Castilian ambassador to Timur's court, claimed that the...
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    name of Tsolakert during the Middle Ages. When the Spanish traveler Ruy González de Clavijo passed through this region in the early 15th century, he stayed...
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    title held by Genghis Khan's chief wife, Börte. The Spanish ambassador, Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, who was sent by Henry III of Castile to visit Timur's...
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    inhabitants. Others escaped to Tehran. In July 1404, Castilian ambassador Ruy González de Clavijo visited Tehran on a journey to Samarkand, the capital of Turco-Mongol...
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    of Henry III of Castile to the Timurid Empire. 1403–1404: Travel of Ruy González de Clavijo, second ambassador of Henry III of Castile to the Timurid...
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    Apostles by William Steuart McBirnie Clavijo, Ruy González de (1859). Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at Samarcand...
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    Cortés, Juan Díaz, Bernal Díaz, Andrés de Tapia, Francisco de Aguilar, Ruy González and the Anonymous Conqueror detailed their eyewitness accounts of human...
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    the Tehran's royal citadel can be traced back to July 6, 1404; when Ruy González de Clavijo, the envoy of Enrique III, traveled to Samarkand to meet with...
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    west. These accounts include Ibn Battuta in the fourteenth century, Ruy González de Clavijo in the fifteenth century and Engelbert Kaempfer in the seventeenth...
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    stuck by those princes who are become tributary to his government." — Ruy González de Clavijo (d. 1412) Often images of abstract symbols (tamga) on coins...
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    Tehran, remains the best known monument of Ilkhanid Persia. According to Ruy González de Clavijo, his body was later exhumed by Miran Shah. Trading contacts...
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    people's sense that they were doomed by God. Castilian traveler and writer Ruy González de Clavijo, who saw Constantinople in 1403, wrote that the area within...
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    1339 or 1340. During this era, the ambassador of Henry III of Castile, Ruy González de Clavijo reached Nishapur and according to him, Nishapur had become...
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    indeed seen its many marvels, not having been there..." 1404 India Minor Ruy González de Clavijo "And this same Thursday that the said Ambassadors arrived...
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    books written by a Spanish traveler during the medieval period (that of Ruy González de Clavijo is another example). Tafur dedicates his book to a member...
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  • Sanchia of Provence (b. 1209) 1335 – Henry of Bohemia (b. 1265) 1412 – Ruy González de Clavijo, Spanish explorer and author 1416 – Ferdinand I, king of Aragon...
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    Man and the Madman What Happened to Don Pero Núñez the Loyal, to Don Ruy González de Zavallos, and to Don Gutier Roiz de Blaguiello with Don Rodrigo the...
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    (hamam) in Eskişehir, and was strangled by Mehmed's partisans in 1403. Ruy González de Clavijo wrote that İsa Çelebi wasn't alive in September 1403. His...
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    lifetime. It was built between 1398 and 1405. An account by ambassador Ruy González de Clavijo describes a huge square Timurid pavilion tent with a dome...
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    the surrender of Constantinople. The contemporary Castilian traveller Ruy González de Clavijo wrote that John and Bayezid had agreed that should Bayezid...
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  • her own feasts, including one in honour of the Castilian ambassador Ruy González de Clavijo in 1405. Though de Clavijo dismissively described her at this...
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