Prester John (Latin: Presbyter Ioannes) was a legendary Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries...

Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of the young Scotsman David Crawfurd and his adventures in...

Prester John is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is based loosely on the legendary Christian...

distant Eastern rulers who was sometimes associated with the legend of "Prester John". During Mongol-European diplomacy, the Mongols sometimes played upon...

whose monarch was known as Prester John. Originally thought to have been in the Orient, eventually, the search for Prester John's mythical kingdom focused...

claimed to be a priest (Prester John) who ruled over the great kingdom of Ethiopia. According to the letters, Prester John's subjects included some Jewish...

up Prester John in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prester John is a Christian king in medieval legend. Prester John may also refer to: Prester John (novel)...

literal rendering of episkopos) connotes the job description. John the Presbyter Prester John Presbyterium Cottrell, Jack (2002). The Faith Once for All:...

Morrison; it also included contributions by the likes of Brian Bolland and John Bolton, while many of the magazine's painted covers were by Mick Austin....

news, John II sent, in 1487, Frei António de Lisboa and Pedro de Montarroio to locate in the East new information that could find Prester John, which...

album, Painting With (2016). Time Skiffs was preceded by four singles: "Prester John", "Walker", "Strung with Everything", and "We Go Back". In late 2017...

Jesus. However, the Europeans also had legends about a figure known as Prester John, a great Christian leader in the East who would come to help with the...

Africa in general; he was most intrigued by the Christian legend of Prester John and the expansion of Portuguese trade. He is regarded as the patron of...

Ethiopia, its people, and religious faith in connection to the mythical Prester John, who was viewed as a potential ally against Islamic powers. Ethiopian...

was gone." In the initial letter ostensibly written by the mythical Prester John and sent to European heads of state in 1165, the priest-king claims that...

BC), in the Alexander romance (3rd century AD), and in the stories of Prester John (early Crusades, 11th/12th centuries AD). Stories of similar waters also...

began that the army of one King David, a descendant of the legendary Prester John, was on its way from the east to the Holy Land to join the Crusade and...

Asian leaders who was identified with the legend of Prester John, but also King David, a brother to John. Although the Keraites converted to Nestorianism...

greatly advanced by Diogo Cão). Dias was also charged with searching for Prester John, a legendary figure believed to be the powerful Christian ruler of a...

from the East, in part owing to the long-running legend of the mythical Prester John, an Eastern king in an Eastern kingdom who many believed would one day...

early 11th century and are one of the possible sources of the European Prester John legend. Their original territory was expansive, corresponding to much...

Nestorian Church gave rise to the European legend of Prester John. In 1815, British resident Colonel John Munro founded a seminary in Kottayam for the theological...

the earliest narratives being about contacting the Ten Lost Tribes and Prester John, and continues today as a trope in science fiction about extraterrestrial...

von Eschenbach's Parzival) and learns about the legendary kingdom of Prester John. From this event onward, Baudolino dreams of reaching this fabled land...

thanks to King John the Presbyter (also known as Prester John), who is known to have slain a dragon. When the first novel opens Prester John's health in his...

the early 13th century; kings and popes took them for the legendary Prester John, marching to save Christians from the Muslim Saracens, but when they...

Francisco (March 1962). "The Prester John of the Indies. The Prester John of the Indies. A True Relation of the Lands of Prester John, Being the Narrative of...

Jesus Christ in Zombiegeddon (2003). In 2006, Savini essayed the role of Prester John, the mythical villain in the dreamlike Sea of Dust. That year also saw...

claims over them, were informed by the imagination of and search for Prester John, king of a wealthy Christian realm in isolation, as well as the Ten Lost...

Toghrul became identified with the legendary Central Asian Christian king Prester John, whose Mongol descendants were sought as allies against the Muslims by...