History of the World from 6 CE to 1600 CE


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(Part 11 -- 1200 to 1299 CE)





1200 August 24 John Lackland marries Isabella of Angouleme who is 12 at the time.
   
1200 May Philip is forced to sign Peace of Le Goulet treaty with John
   
1200 Aug., Teutonic Knights pay the sons of Theodore of Sarepta 200 besants for the house in Tyre to complete the 1195 deal
   
1200 Llywelyn the Great seizes Anglesey (Isle of Mon) in Wales
   
1201 June Philip entertains John in Paris
   
1202 April 28 John fails to attend a summons to Philip's court
   
1202 Gerold of Bozen gives the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Bozen
   
1202 The Fourth Crusade under Boniface of Montferrat, Venice takes lead in fighting and sacking Constantinople (-1204)
   
1203 Philip Augustus expels English from Normandy and conquers the province.
   
1203 Arthur of Brittany mysteriously disappears. Reputed to be murdered under orders of his uncle, King John.
   
1204 Constantinople falls to Crusaders. Crusaders found Latin Empire.
   
1204 In France, Chateau Gaillard (originally built by King Richard the Lionhearted) on the Seine River falls to besiegers who climb up the latrine shaft.
   
1204 Goodrich given to William Marshall
   
1205 June John prepares invasion
   
1205 William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin conquers Patras, Andravida, Pundico Castro, Modon, and Coron in the Morea; Battle of Koundoura won by William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin with about 600 men over 5,000 Byzantine Greeks
   
1206 Statutes of Margat adopted by the Hospitallers in annual chapter meeting
   
1206 Genghis Khan (Temujin) holds khuriltai, where he accepts leadership of all Mongols. Genghis later founds the Yuan dynasty of China.
   
1207 Earl of Leicester loses land
   
1207 Stephen Langton becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
   
1207 Famous singing contest held at the Wartburg; St. Elizabeth of Hungary and Hermann von Salza possibly attend
   
1208 Teutonic Knights "marshal" appears in the sources; indicates the military nature of the order
   
1208 Albigensian Crusade in France (- 1229)
   
1208 Pope Innocent III places England under Interdict.
   
1209 King John invades Scotland and is excommunicated.
   
1209 Geoffrey Villehardouin, Prince of Achaia, in dividing up the Peloponnesus in his capital of Andravida, gives the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights four knightly fees; the Teutonic Knights' fee is near Kalamata
   
1209 Teutonic Knights side with Hospitallers and barons in Acre against the Templars and prelates; origin of long-standing opposition between the Templars and Teutonic Knights
   
1210 Oct. 3, Probable date of election of Hermann von Salza as grand master of the Teutonic Knights; the date coincided with the date of the marriage in Tyre of John of Brienne to Mary; it is also the date of John's coronation as King of Jerusalem
   
1211 Sep., Frederick II chosen king in Germany
   
1211 Burzenland settled by the Teutonic Knights with the authority of Hungary's King Andrew II
   
1212 Jul., Peter II of Aragon defeats the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa
   
1212 Adomadana given to the Teutonic Knights by King Leo of Armenia
   
1212 Children's Crusade: spring---German phase; June---French phase
   
1212 English King John extorts money from the barons
   
1213 Sep. 12 Simon de Montfort wins the battle of Muret; Peter II killed
   
1213 Genghis Khan attacks Chin Empire of northern China.
   
1213 King John submits to Poper and makes England and Ireland papal fiefs.
   
1213 Council of St. Albans is the precursor to Parliament
   
1214 Feb. 24, King Leo of Armenia grants Teutonic Knights Amudain, the castle of Sespin, and more
   
1215 June 17 English King John I Lackland signs Magna Charta, at Runnemede. John later repudiates the Magna Charta, leading to the First Barons' War (1215-1217).
   
1215 Nov., Innocent III callsthe Fourth Lateran Council; new crusade proclaimed; Hermann von Salza probably at the Fourth Lateran Council representing his order
   
1215 Frederick II crowned in Aix-la-Chapelle; take the crusader cross
   
1215 Dominican Order founded
   
1216 February French fleet lands in London
   
1216 Feb. 18, Innocent III issues a bull of protection for the Teutonic Knights
   
1216 February King John puts down revolt
   
1216 May 21 Prince Louis of France claims English Throne
   
1216 June King John fights rebels in East Anglia
   
1216 October King John attacks Berwick
   
1216 October 19 King John dies
   
1216 October 28 King Henry III, John's son by Isabella, crowned (-1272) but is under direction of William Marshall until Henry comes of age
   
1216 November Llewelyn divides Wales
   
1216 November 12 Revision to the Magna Carta
   
1216 Dec., Hermann von Salza attends Frederick II's court in Nuremberg; first meeting between the Teutonic Knights' grand master and the emperor
   
1216 Honorius III becomes pope (1216-27)
 
1217 Hubert de Burgh forces Louis to accept peace terms
   
1217 Feb., Hermann von Salza receives possessions in Sicily from Frederick II while at Ulm
   
1217 May 20 Rebels defeated at Lincoln
   
1217 Jun.24, Frederick II granted the Teutonic Knights the same status as the Templars and Hospitallers in the Kingdom of Sicily
   
1217 August 24 Battle off Sandwich
   
1217 September 12 Treaty of Kingston
   
1217 The Fifth Crusade (1217-21)
   
1218 May - Aug. Crusading army lands in Egypt; Hermann von Salza at Damietta; Saphadin dies (1199-1218); al-Kamil, his son, becomes caliph
   
1218 Crusaders captured Damietta (1218- 1238)
   
1218 - 1219 Patriarch of Jerusalem, church officials, Templars and Hospitallers advise Pelagius not to accept peace terms of Sultan al-Kamil to surrender Jerusalem; contrary advice offered by King John of Jerusalem, Earl Ranulf of Chester, and the German leaders
   
1219 William Marshall dies
   
1220 Henry III crowned at Westminster
   
1220 Spring, Hermann von Salza goes to Acre with King John of Jerusalem
   
1220 July 7 Ceremony in Canterbury
   
1220 Nov., Hermann von Salza is with Frederick II in Italy; first identified by name as Hermann von Salza in documents; Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Honorius III
   
1220 Leopold VI of Austria presents the Teutonic Knights the site of the castle of Montfort near Acre
   
1221 Jan. 9, Honorius III gives privileges to the Teutonic Knights; as an order, they now are on the same level as the Templars and the Hospitallers
   
1221 Jan - Apr, Hermann von Salza is in Italy; 57 privileges are given by Honorius III to the Teutonic Knights (Honorius III grants 113 to the Teutonic Knights during his pontificate)
   
1221 mid - April Hermann von Salza accompanied the duke of Bavaria and other German nobles to Damietta; arrives in May
   
1221 Aug. 30, Battle of Mansurah; crusaders surrender in Egypt (Templars lead the rearguard action); peace treaty; Hermann von Salza and the master of the Temple held as hostages by the Muslims
   
1222 "Golden Bull" of Hungary, first issue
   
1223 Hermann von Salza negotiates with the pope over Gunzelin; later in the Holy Land, he arranges the marriage for the emperor
   
1224 Hermann von Salza is involved in the Treaty of Dannenberg
   
1225 Nov., Frederick II marries Isabella (Yolande) of Brienne and claims the throne of Jerusalem; Hermann von Salza is present
   
1225 Teutonic Knights forcibly expelled from Burzenland by king Andrew II; Conrad of Masovia requests aid from the Teutonic Knights in Prussia
   
1226 Golden Bull of Rimini" from Frederick II for the Teutonic Knights giving them wide-ranging authority in the name of the empire in Prussia
   
1227 Castel Montfort rebuilt---renamed Starkenberg
   
1227 Henry III declares himself of age.
   
1227 Truce in the Anglo-French war
   
1227 Genghis Khan dies.
   
1227 Gregory IX becomes pope (1227-41)
   
1228 Stephen Langton dies
   
1228 Mongols defeat Russian princes, but this being a reconnaissance mission, the victory is not consolidated.
   
1228 The Sixth Crusade (1228-9) led by Emperor Fredrick II
   
1228 Sep., Frederick II arrives in the Holy Land accompanied by Hermann von Salza
   
1229 Feb 18 Christians retake Jerusalem until 1239; Fredrick signs treaty with Sultan al-Kamil of Egypt.
   
1229 Mar. 12, Hermann von Salza sent a letter to Gregory IX from Joppa informing him about the treaty
   
1229 Mar. 18, Frederick II crowned King of Jerusalem in the church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem; then holds high court in the house of the Hospital of St. John
   
1229 Apr., Peace of Paris ends Albigensian Crusade
   
1229 Apr., Frederick II gives Teutonic Knights former house of Germans in Jerusalem; also a house that once belonged to King Baldwin located in the Armenian street near the church of St. Thomas (plus a garden and six acres of land)
   
1229 May 1, At odds with the Templars and Ibelins, Frederick II departs Acre; fears losing Apulia to John of Brienne
   
1229 - German Hospital of St. Mary in Jerusalem expanded (- 1244)  
 
1230 Kulm recognized by Pope Gregory IX as belonging to the Teutonic Knights
   
1231 Teutonic Knights' Hermann Balke advanced into Prussia
   
1231 Gautier of Brienne gives the Teutonic Knights Beauvoir
   
1231 St. Elizabeth of Hungary dies at Marburg; later was canonized (1234)
   
1231 August 13 Simon de Montfort takes possession of his land
   
1231 Mongols invade Korea.
   
1232 Oaks given to Gloucester
 
1232 Peter des Rievaulx becomes treasurer
   
1232 Henry III removes Hubert de Burgh
   
1233 Rebellion by Earl of Pembroke, aided by Welsh
   
1234 Teutonic Knights win the battle at Sirguna, Prussia
   
1234 Pope takes control of Prussia; leases it to the Teutonic Knights
   
1235 Spring, Dobriner Order incorporated into Teutonic Knights; approved by Frederick II and Gregory IX
   
1235 Sept., Andrew II of Hungary dies; Bela IV succeeds him (until 1270)
   
1236 January 4 Henry III marries
   
1236 Dec. 23, Gregory IX taxed the Peloponnesus to support crusading ventures; preceptor of the Teutonic Knights identified in the Morea as one of three collectors of the tithing effort
   
1236 Mongols return to Russian, and in 4-year period subjugate the country.
   
1237 Frederick II's second Lombard campaign; Hermann von Salza at Battle of Cortenuova
   
1237 Teutonic Knights and Swordbrothers unite
   
1237 Jul., Geoffrey II of Achaia gives the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Andravida
   
1238 January Simon de Montfort marries Henry III's sister Nell.
   
1238 Frederick II's third Lombard campaign; Hermann von Salza's health fails
   
1239 Mar., Hermann von Salza dies in Salerno and buried in Barletta; Frederick II excommunicated
   
1239 Mar., Robert de l'Isle donates property (Villegrot) near Veligosti to the Teutonic Knights
   
1239 June Edward (I) is born
   
1240 Mongol leader Batu Khan (son of Juchi, oldest son of Genghis Khan) razes Kiev, curtailing growth of Kievan Russia, and permitting Muscovite Russia to emerge as dominant force in Russian life.
   
1240 Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Prince of Snowden (-1246)
   
1240 Crusade of Richard of Cornwall and Simon de Montfort to Jaffa
   
1240 Border fixed between England and Scotland
   
1241 Mongols defeat Bela IV at Muhi, and occupy Hungary for a year.
   
1241 Celestine IV becomes pope (1241)
 
1241 Apr. 9, Battle of Liegnitz; Mongols defeat army of Poles and Germans including Hospitallers, Templars, and Teutonic Knights
   
1242 Apr. 5, Russians under Alexander Nevsky defeat the Teutonic Knights on Lake Peipus
   
1242 Henry tries to retake Poitou
   
1242 Henry's finances are criticized
   
1243 Innocent IV becomes pope (1243-54)
   
1243 Spring Simon de Montfort gets custody of Kenilworth castle
   
1243 Christians retake Jerusalem for one year.
   
1243 Five year truce between England and France.
   
1244 August Jerusalem falls to Egyptian Khwarazni.
   
1245 Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey
   
1245 Carpini, a Christian envoy, travels to the Mongol Empire
   
1246 Oct. 31, Innocent IV transferred the Hospital of St. James to the Templars
   
1247 Henry receives a holy relic
   
1248 The Seventh Crusade (1248-54) led by Louis IX
   
1249 Louis IX lands in Egypt
   
1250 Saracens capture Louis IX
   
1250 Chapter House begun on Wells Cathedral
   
1254 Henry III gives Edward his own lands
   
1254 Edward marries
   
1254 Louis IX returns to France from Palestine
   
1254 Alexander IV becomes pope (1254-61)
   
1255 Henry III accepts Sicily for his son Edmund
   
1255 Hulagu Khan (grandson of Genghis Khan) captures Bagdhad.
   
1256 Generals of Hulagu Khan, after 3-year siege, destroy Assassins' castles and massacre Persian Assassins.
   
1256 Kublai Khan attains throne of Mongolian Empire.
   
1257 Llywelyn assume the title "Prince of Wales"
   
1257 Richard of Cornwall elected King of Romans and crowed at Aix-la-Chapelle
   
1257 Julian of Grenier, lord of Sidon, donates a fortress called Cave of Tyron to the Teutonic Knights (about 12 miles east of Sidon) signifying the order's role in Holy Land was expanding
   
1257 Teutonic Knights buy large land complex (called Souf or Schuf) northeast of Sidon from Julian Grenier, lord of Sidon for 23,000 crusader besants
   
1258 Oct. 16, Peace treaty among the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights signed in Acre
   
1258 Teutonic Knights buy a manor from John de la Tour, constable of Sidon, and two manors from John of Schuf and assumed the responsibility for defense north of Acre
   
1258 April Henry asks for money
   
1258 June Provisions of Oxford
   
1260 Jul., Teutonic Knights routed at Durben; Prussians revolt
   
1260 Marmelukes of Egypt defeat Mongol forces in Palestinian desert.
   
1261 Teutonic Knights buy fief made up of several manors called Schuf from Andrew of Schufe
   
1261 Urban IV becomes pope (1261-64)
   
1263 May, All Teutonic Knight possessions near Sidon lost to Muslims after Baybars won battle of Sidon
   
1263 Norsemen ejected from Scotland.
   
1263 Edward joins Simon de Montfort against the King
   
1263 Henry III is absolved from the Provisions of Oxford
   
1263 Edward raids the Temple in London
   
1263 June Simon de Montfort's forces do much damage
   
1264 May 14 Battle of Lewes
   
1264 June Simon de Montfort summons Parliament
   
1264 June Haco of Norway attacks Scotland
   
1264 Summer Edward moved to Kenilworth
   
1265 January 20 Ordinary People's Parliament
   
1265 February The Barons split on support for Simon de Montfort and Henry III
   
1265 May Edward escapes Simon de Montfort
   
1265 Summer Armies march
   
1265 Aug 4 Edward I (Longshanks) defeats Barons at Evesham in the Barons War (1264-67). Simon de Montfort is killed and mutilated.
   
1265 Clement IV becomes pope (1265-68)
   
1266 Venetians Niccolo Polo and brother Maffeo Polo make trade expedition to Constantinople, and then east to Bolgara and then Sarai, in the Kingdom of Barka Khan. After a year, their return blocked by war between Barka Khan and Hulagu Khan, the Polo brothers journey east to Kublai Khan's capital Kaifeng. Three years later they returned to Venice.
   
1267 Kublai Khan begins construction of new capital at Peking.
   
1268 June Edward takes the cross
   
1269 October 13 Edward the Confessor's remains moved
   
1270 July Prince Edward leaves for the Holy Land
   
1270 July 20 The Eighth Crusade
   
1270 Louis IX dies on Eighth Crusade and is succeeded by Phillip III (-1285)
   
1271 Edward's Crusade
   
1271 May Edward reaches Acre
   
1271 Niccolo, Maffeo and Marco Polo (at the age of eighteen) leave for China.
   
1271 Kublai Khan formally creates the Yuan dynasty of China.
   
1271 Blessed Gregory X becomes pope (1271-76)
   
1272 November 16 Henry III dies and is succeeded by his son Edward I (-1307)
   
1273 February Edward visits the Pope
   
1274 May Little battle of Chalons
   
1274 August 2 Edward arrives home
   
1274 August 19 Edward I is crowned at Westminster
   
1274 Mongols unsuccessfully attempt to invade Japan.
   
1275 The Polos arrive at Cambuluc (Peking).
   
1276 Blessed Innocent V becomes pope (1276)
 
1276 Adrian V becomes pope (1276)
 
1276 John XXI becomes pope (1276-77)
 
1277 Nicholas III becomes pope (1277-80)
   
1277 Edward defeats Llewelyn
   
1279 Recoinage in England.
   
1279 Mongols under Kublai Khan defeat Sung dynasty of China.
   
1281 Kublai Khan's Mongol fleet destroyed in typhoon (Kamikaze or "Divine Wind"), thwarting invasion of Japan.
   
1281 Martin IV becomes pope (1281-85)
   
1285 Honorius IV becomes pope (1285-87)
   
1285 Phillip III dies and is succeeded by Phillip IV "the Fair" (-1314)
   
1286 Kublai Khan's uncle Nayan, with 400,000 horsemen, meets Kublai Khan, with 260,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry, in battle. Kublai Khan is victorious, and Nayan is captured and executed.
   
1286 Edward and Gascony
   
1288 Nicholas IV becomes pope (1288-92)
   
1288 Alexander III of Scotland dies and is succeeded by his infant niece Margaret "Maid of Norway" under six guardians
   
1290 September Treaty of Birgham-on-Tweed
   
1290 Margaret of Scotland, pledged to marry Edward II, dies
   
1291 May 18, Fall of Acre; Hospitaller and Templar headquarters moved from Acre to Cyprus; Teutonic Knights headquarters moved from Acre to Venice
   
1291 May 10 Edward meets Scottish Claimants
   
1292 English and Norman sailors fight
   
1292 November 17 John Balliol is chosen by Edward I as Scottish King
   
1294 Kublai Khan dies.
   
1294 Outrage at Philip's actions
   
1294 Edward asks Balliol for resources
   
1294 St. Celestine V becomes pope (1294)
 
1294 Boniface VIII becomes pope (1294-1303)
   
1295 Khans of Persia convert to Islam. The Polos return to Venice.
   
1295 October Treaty Auld Alliance between Scotland and France
   
1296 April Balliol renounces homage to England
   
1296 July Balliol surrenders at Stracathro, Edward takes the Stone of Scone to Westminster
   
1296 August The First Interregnum
   
1296 Marco Polo, fighting for Venice, is captured by Genoa and imprisoned for two years, where he dictates his Travels to his cell mate.
   
1297 February Edward is deserted by the Barons
   
1297 July Confederacy formed and destroyed
   
1297 September 11 Battle at Stirling Bridge results in victory of Scots over English
   
1297 Winter Edward accepts Truce
   
1299 March Edward evades Parliament
   
1299 September Edward marries
   

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