Johannes de Galonifontibus

Johannes de Galonifontibus () was a Dominican friar active in the South Caucasus in March 1377.The Cambridge history of Iran William Bayne Fisher, Peter Jackson, Laurence Lockhart p.375 He was appointed by Gregory XI on 9 March 1377 as Bishop of Nakhchivan. He is often mistaken for Archbishop of Sultaniya, John III of Soltaniyeh who was also a bishop of Nakhchivan because of Anton Kern, who published John III's Libellus de Notitia Orbis and tentatively associated him with his namesake.A. Kern, ‘Der “Libellus de notitia orbis” Iohannes III (de Galonifontibus?) O.P. Erzbishofs von Sulthanyeh’, Archivium Fratrum Praedicatorum 8 (1938) pp. 81-123

See also Timurid relations with Europe

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