Editing Pope Innocent IV (section)

===Contacts with the Mongols===
[[File:AscelinOfCremone.jpg|thumb|left|[[Ascelin of Lombardia]] receiving a letter from Pope Innocent IV, and remitting it to the Mongol general [[Baiju Noyan|Baiju]]]]
[[File:LetterGuyugToInnocence.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Letter from Güyük Khan to Pope Innocent IV|1246 letter]] of [[Güyük]] to Pope Innocent IV]]
The warlike tendencies of the Mongols also concerned the Pope, and in 1245, he issued bulls and sent a papal [[nuncio]] in the person of [[Giovanni da Pian del Carpine]] (accompanied by [[Benedict the Pole]]) to the "Emperor of the Tartars".<ref>Roux, pp. 312–313</ref> The [[Dei patris immensa|message]] asked the [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]] ruler to become a Christian and stop his aggression against Europe. The Khan [[Güyük]] replied in 1246 in a letter written in [[Persian language|Persian]] mixed [[Turkic language|Turkic]] that is still preserved in the [[Vatican Library]], demanding the submission of the Pope and the other rulers of Europe.<ref name="Wilkinson">{{cite web |url = http://www.unu.edu/HQ/japanese/dialogue/wilkinson-presen-s1e.doc |last=Wilkinson |first=David |title = Studying the History of Intercivilizational Dialogues |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050109172807/http://www.unu.edu/HQ/japanese/dialogue/wilkinson-presen-s1e.doc |archive-date=9 January 2005 |url-status=dead |work=International Conference on the Dialogue of Civilizations 31 July 2001 |location=Tokyo}}</ref>

In 1245 Innocent had sent another mission, through another route, led by [[Ascelin of Lombardia]], also bearing letters. The mission met with the Mongol ruler [[Baichu]] near the [[Caspian Sea]] in 1247. The reply of Baichu was in accordance with that of Güyük, but it was accompanied by two Mongolian envoys to the Papal seat in [[Lyon]], [[Aïbeg and Serkis]]. In the letter, Guyuk demanded that the Pope appear in person at the Mongol imperial headquarters, [[Karakorum]], so that “we might cause him to hear every command that there is of the [[Yassa|jasaq]]”.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Igor |last=de Rachewiltz |year=1993 |title=Some Reflections on Chinggis Qan's Jasagh |journal=East Asian History |volume=6 |pages=91–104 |url=http://www.eastasianhistory.org/sites/default/files/article-content/06/EAH06%20_05.pdf |access-date=1 December 2019 |archive-date=2 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802202320/http://www.eastasianhistory.org/sites/default/files/article-content/06/EAH06%20_05.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1248 the envoys met with Innocent, who again issued an appeal to the Mongols to stop their killing of Christians.<ref name="Wilkinson"/>

Innocent IV would also send other missions to the Mongols in 1245, including that of [[André de Longjumeau]] and the possibly aborted mission of [[Laurent de Portugal]].