Geoffrey of Langley was an English knight and ambassador of the 13th century. He participated in the crusade of

Edward I of England Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Aquitaine and Gascony as a vas ...

in the Holy Land in the years 1270–71. Geoffrey de Langley was also sent to the

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court of

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in 1291.''The medieval expansion of Europe'' J. R. S. Phillips p.126
/ref> Geoffrey left from

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, where he was joined by the Khan's ambassador to the West Buscarel of Gisolfe to go to the Mongol capital of

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. The embassy is known in some detail because the financial accounts of it have remained. Geoffrey returned to Genoa on 11 January 1293. Geoffrey of Langley was a member of the English knights under Edmond of Lancaster who went to France in 1294.

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