Philip of Novara

Philip of Novara (c. 1195, † 1265 ) was a medieval chronicler and Legist. He came from the northern Italian city of Novara, but lived and worked in the Crusader states of the Latin Orient.

Life

It is unclear as Novara came into the Christian world Outremer States, but in 1218 he took in the service of Cypriot knight Pierre Chappe in the crusade of Damietta (fifth crusade ) part. In the following years he was in Cyprus a loyal knight John of Ibelin, the at " old man of Beirut ", and struggled with this in the Lombard war against the governor of the Emperor Frederick II, then, among others, on June 15, 1232 the Battle Agridi. About this conflict Novara wrote an epic chronicle, in which he very one-sided John of Ibelin described as the ideal of an honorable and righteous lord and Emperor Frederick II criticized as uncultured despot.

For the home and the Ibelin of them mentioned baroniale party Novara also appeared as a legal scholar. In its objection, the assembled at Acre on June 5, 1242 Haute Cour of Jerusalem explained each of the Emperor or his son, King Conrad IV, appointed government for the Kingdom of Jerusalem illegitimate because King Conrad never appeared in the Kingdom and of the vassal the Kingdom have received the oath of fealty. Consequently, the barons were the king under no obligation to allegiance and empowered to determine their own government. Novara wrote in 1250 a treatise on feudal Outremer (Le Livre de forme de plait ), which influenced especially the writings of legal scholars John of Ibelin Jaffa, a nephew of the " old man ".

For moral edification Novara wrote in 1260 include the publication "The four ages " (Les quatre de l' homme âges ), Principles of education of the nobility.