Philip of Novara (c. 1200 – c. 1270) was a medieval historian, warrior, musician, diplomat, poet, and lawyer
[.] born at
Novara
Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is ...
,
Italy
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, into a noble house, who spent his entire adult life in the Middle East. He primarily served the
Ibelin family
The House of Ibelin was a noble family in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century. They rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most important families in the kingdom, holding various high offices and with extensive holding ...
, and featured in a number of prominent battles and negotiations involving
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
and
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...
. He chronicled the
War of the Lombards
The War of the Lombards (1228–1243) was a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus between the "Lombards" (also called the imperialists), the representatives of the Emperor Frederick II, largely from Lombardy, and th ...
, the dispute between the Ibelin family and
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II (German language, German: ''Friedrich''; Italian language, Italian: ''Federico''; Latin: ''Federicus''; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Em ...
.
He wrote a lengthy treatise on the
feudal law
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structur ...
of Jerusalem, which influenced later jurists like
John of Ibelin.
Notes
Bibliography
*''Des quatre âges de l'homme: traité de moral de Philippe de Novare'', ed. Marcel de Freville. Paris: Didot, 1888.
*Philip of Novara, ''The Wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus'', trans. John L. La Monte. New York: Columbia University Press, 1936.
*Philip of Novara. ''Guerra di Federico II in Oriente (1223–1242)'', ed. and Italian trans. Silvio Melani. Naples: Liguori, 1994.
*Philip of Novara, ''Le Livre de forme de plait'', ed. and trans. Peter W. Edbury. Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, 2009.
*Peter W. Edbury. "Philip of Novara and the Livre de forme de plait." ''Praktika tou tritou diethnous kyprologikou sunedriou (Lefkosia, 16-20 Apriliou 1966)'', vol. 2, ed. A. Papageorgiou (Nicosia: Etaireia Kupriakon Spoudon, 2001), pp. 555–69.
* Serena Modena, Schede di Filippo da Novara http://www.rialfri.eu/rialfriWP/autori/filippo-di-novara, Guerra di Federico II in Oriente https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032052/http://www.rialfri.eu/rialfriWP/opere/guerra-di-federico-ii-in-oriente, Livre de forme de plait http://www.rialfri.eu/rialfriWP/opere/livre-de-forme-de-plait, in RIALFrI (Repertorio Informatizzato dell'Antica Letteratura Franco-Italiana) http://www.rialfri.eu/rialfriWP/
1195 births
1265 deaths
People from Novara
13th-century Italian historians
13th-century Italian jurists
13th-century Italian poets
Italian male poets
13th-century diplomats
Italian musicians
Christians of the Fifth Crusade
Medieval Italian diplomats
Italian male non-fiction writers
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