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Baldwin II was born in Constantinople (the only Latin emperor to be born there), a younger son of Yolanda of Flanders, sister of the first two emperors, Baldwin I and Henry of Flanders. [1] Her husband, Peter of Courtenay, was third emperor of the Latin Empire, and had been followed by his son Robert of Courtenay, on whose death in 1228 the ...
Wang Chuyi. William I, Count of Sancerre. Categories: 1217 endings. 1210s deaths. Deaths by year. Hidden categories: Commons category link from Wikidata. Navseasoncats year and decade.
1217. prvá písomná zmienka o Veľkom Šariši. prvá písomná zmienka o Skalici.
Ibn Jubayr (1 September 1145 [1] – 29 November 1217; Arabic: ابن جبير [2] ), also written Ibn Jubair, Ibn Jobair, and Ibn Djubayr, was an Arab [3] geographer, traveller and poet from al-Andalus. His travel chronicle describes the pilgrimage he made to Mecca from 1183 to 1185, in the years preceding the Third Crusade.
1216 – Roger of Wendover, English monk and chronicler, at St Albans Abbey, begins to cover contemporary events, in his continuation of the chronicle Flores Historiarum. 1217 – Alexander Neckam, English scholar and theologian, writes De naturis rerum ("On the Nature of Things"), a scientific encyclopedia.
Toulouse was besieged from 22 September 1217 to 25 July 1218 during the Albigensian Crusade. It was the third of a series of sieges of the city during the height of Crusader efforts to put down Catharism (and the local Languedocian nobility). It ended in the repulsion of the Crusaders and the death of their leader, Simon IV de Montfort .
The Fifth Crusade (1217–1221) was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by al-Adil, brother of Saladin . After the failure of the Fourth Crusade, Innocent III again called for a crusade, and began ...
