Giovanni dal Piano dei Carpini, or Plano Cerpini , in French Jean de Plan Carpin , monk franciscain and Italian historian (v. 1180-1252), bishop of Antovori (Dalmatie), Innocent papal legate IV, sent on mission in Russia and Mongolian Mongolia to try to convert the and to prepare a possible crusade against them (1245 - 1247), is one of the first Europeans to leave a relation of voyage on the Central Asia.

Travel of Jean de Plan Carpin

During the council of Lyon in 1245, the pope Innocent IV sends it in embassy near the Mongols, in the Kaptchak, near Batou, Tartar Khan of the S, which had invaded Europe a few years before. He hopes, in their dispatching a messenger, to dissuade them to continue their incursions and to obtain information on their subject, to even obtain an alliance of reverse against the Moslems. The mission leaves Lyon (April 1245) bound for Kiev. Plan Carpin meets Batu in Moldavie. It arrives at Kiev in February 1246, and gains then the capital of the Mongolian Empire, Karakorum (July 1246).

Jean de Plan Carpin, present at the Quriltay which indicates Güyük like large khan, proposes to him with to convert with Christianity, but this one refuses.

A few months later, legation is of return of this perilous voyage, that nobody had made front, it regains Lyon (beginning 1247). If the mission is impotent to convince the Mongols to stop their progression in Europe, it remains in the history, for the account that Plan Carpin pays some, the History of the Mongols called by us Tartar, description of the habits, the geography, the history and the outstanding figures of the Mongolian people .

Jean de Plan Carpin reports in Occident the first information on the Tibet, of which the habit to eat the late ones (ritual of the celestial funeral). He was named Provincial Germany, and preached the Évangile in Bohemia, in Hungary, Norway and with the Denmark.

The Relation of its voyages (during the years 1245 - 1247) was published initially in $the Hague in 1729, with those of Benjamin de Tudèle and Rubruquis; and in a more complete way, according to the manuscripts of Leyde, by Mr. d' Avezac, Paris, 1838, in-4,

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  • Chart of the voyage of Jean de Plan Carpin

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