Robert de Clari
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Robert de Clari was a knight from Picardy. He participated in the Fourth Crusade, and left a chronicle of it.[1]
He was one of the few documented witnesses to the Shroud of Turin before 1358. He claims (1203) to have seen the cloth in Constantinople: "Where there was the Shroud in which our Lord had been wrapped, which every Friday raised itself upright so one could see the figure of our Lord on it."
After the Fourth Crusade, in 1205, the following letter was sent by Theodore Angelos, a nephew of one of three Byzantine Emperors who were deposed during the Fourth Crusade, to Pope Innocent III protesting the attack on the capital. From the document, dated 1 August 1205: "The Venetians partitioned the treasures of gold, silver, and ivory while the French did the same with the relics of the saints and the most sacred of all, the linen in which our Lord Jesus Christ was wrapped after his death and before the resurrection. We know that the sacred objects are preserved by their predators in Venice, in France, and in other places, the sacred linen in Athens."[2]
[edit] References
- Robert de Clari. La Conquête de Constantinople (1924) edited by Philippe Lauer
- The Conquest of Constantinople (1996 reprint) translator Edgar Holmes McNeal
