Robert de Clari

Robert de Clari ( Robert de Clery, * 1170, † after 1216 ) was a knight from Picardy. In the wake of his lords, the Castellan Peter of Amiens, he took along with his brother, the monk Alleaume de Clari, the Fourth Crusade in part, which ended in 1204 with the conquest of Constantinople. Robert de Clari wrote a Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade. De Clari seems to have returned in 1205 to France. Although his chronicle contains events up to the year 1216, the period from 1205 to 1216 he was very short, portrayed almost as the final word on its history, summarized. The Chronicles of Robert de Clari is one of the few reports of witnesses, are described in the military events during the conquest of Constantinople from the point of view of an ordinary soldier preserved until today.

The grave cloth of Jesus Christ

De Clari mentioned in his chronicle a grave cloth with the imprint of the face and the body of Jesus Christ, that he saw in the Blachernae Church in Constantinople Opel 1203:

The English author Ian Wilson, since 1978, argues that this cloth is identical with the Turin grave cloth. The whereabouts of the cloth, which saw Robert de Clari in Constantinople Opel, there are, in the opinion of Wilson in the following - existing only in copy - a reference document.

A number Byzantinists, including Averil Cameron reject the thesis of Wilson, after the grave cloth, which saw Robert de Clari in 1203 in Constantinople, Opel, was identical with the Turin cloth or grave with the Abgar picture, but from.