Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Traveller / antiquarian

Wilbrand von Oldenburg

d. 1234 · Germany

German traveller.

Life and work

  1. 1211
    Pilgrim to the Holy Land; located the ruins of the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Kato Paphos, apparently at Saranda Kolones, as medieval pilgrims did, not distinguishing Old and New Paphos

    Kato PaphosMaier & Karageorghis 1984, p. 16

  2. 1211
    Reached Acre on 25 August 1211, then coasted north and west to Corycus in Cilicia (Cobham's note); later Canon of Hildesheim (1211), of Paderborn (1212), Bishop of Utrecht (1228)

    AcreCobham 1908

Sources

  1. 1.F. G. Maier, V. Karageorghis (1984). Paphos: History and Archaeology. 383 pp.. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  2. 2.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online