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 i ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

, 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 ge ...

. 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 the ...

, the dispute between the Ibelin family and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. He wrote a lengthy treatise on the feudal law of Jerusalem, which influenced later jurists like John of Ibelin.

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*''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 {{Italy-poet-stub