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Year 1226 ( MCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. By place. Europe. June – King Louis VIII ( the Lion) leads a Crusade against the Carthars ( Albigensians) and Raymond VII, count of Toulouse.
Louis VIII (5 September 1187 – 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (French: Le Lion), was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As a prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papal legate on 29 May 1216.
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty as a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher .
King Horn, the oldest known English verse romance, written. Franciscan house founded at Greyfriars. 1226. Cardigan Castle and Carmarthen Castle become royal castles. Nuneaton is granted a chartered market. 1227. January – Henry III declares himself to be of age. March – England makes a truce with France. 1228
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Avignon. Commanders and leaders. Louis VIII. Consuls. The siege of Avignon was the principal military action of the Albigensian Crusade of 1226. King Louis VIII of France besieged the town of Avignon, which lay within the Holy Roman Empire, from 10 June until 9 September, when it surrendered on terms.
