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Saint James the greater

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son of Zebedee

Names

  • Greek: Ἰακώβου = Iakōbou 1
  • Latin: Sanctus Iacobus maior 2-4
  • Syriac: ܝܥܩܘܒ = YʿQWB 5

Attributes

  • Male

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.1 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion2 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce3 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone4 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Santiago: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 5.72 [Greek with English translation].
  • 2Sanctus Iacobus maior: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VIII 2. [Latin].
  • 3Sanctus Iacobus maior: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 9 IV 5. [Latin].
  • 4Sanctus Iacobus maior: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V. 1, LXIII. 4 [Latin].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 92 [Syriac].
    • Jacques: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 140, 146, 148 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Saint James the greater” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14999.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: abstract and gender assignment and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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