Record: the document says itLens: our readingOpen: not yet provenDisputed: argued, often by a hostile witness
Year: 1122 · Places: Europe
SUMMARYPrester John I: the priest who is also a king (Nov 11, 2026; Prester John line, inspired by 432 The Drop)
RECORD (Otto of Freising, Chronicon, 1145, via Wikipedia, "Prester John")Otto writes that at Pope Eugene III's court in 1144 he met Hugh, bishop of Jabala, who told of John, "a Nestorian Christian who served in the dual position of priest and king" in the far East, who "regained the city of Ecbatana" and drew his holiness from descent from the Three Magi
DISPUTEDunder Pope Callixtus II (c. 1122) a patriarch "from India" is reported in Rome; the visit is secondhand
LENS (WW9)the record's first Prester John is a priest-king of "India," the same word Europe would put on our land 350 years later