1260 – 1275) was an English-born Dominican friar who was sent from the Holy Land city of Acre to the Mongol ruler Hulagu in 1260, by the Papal legate Tommaso Agni [it].
[2] David of Ashby was a member of the Mongol embassy to the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, sent by Abaqa.
The leader of the Mongols underwent baptism on this occasion, on 16 July.
[3] David of Ashby wrote a book Les fais des Tatars ("The facts about the Tartars") describing the culture of the Mongols, mainly in Iran under Abaqa Khan, and their remarkable military organization and discipline.
A manuscript remained, but it disappeared in the fire of the Turin National Library in 1904.