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1197 - Events. Amalric II succeeds Henry II of Champagne as king of Jerusalem. Theobald III becomes Count of Champagne. The town of Arbroath, Angus, Scotland is consecrated, and dedicated to St Thomas Becket. Kaloyan becomes tsar of Bulgaria. Corfu is occupied by the Genoese. Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, negotiates a peace with Wales. North Crawley is split into Great Crawley and Little Crawley. Philip of Swabia marries Irene Angela, ...

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1253 - Europe. July 6 - Mindaugas is crowned as King of Lithuania. July - William II, Count of Holland defeats the Flemish army at Westkapelle. A series of naval wars begins between the Italian city-states of Genoa and Venice, which will continue sporadically until 1371. King Henry III of England meets with English nobles and church leaders to reaffirm the validity of the Magna Carta. Pope Innocent IV returns to Rome, having left nine years earlier in 1244 to depo ...

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For broader historical context, see 1250s and 13th century. 1253 - Events. July 6 - Mindaugas is crowned as King of Lithuania. July - William II, Count of Holland defeats the Flemish army at Westkapelle. A series of naval wars begins between the Italian city-states of Genoa and Venice, which will continue sporadically until 1371. King Henry III of England meets with English nobles and church leaders to reaffirm the validity of the Magna Carta. Pope I ...

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Château-Gaillard is a now ruined medieval castle, located above the town of Les Andelys, in the Eure département of Normandy, France. It is located some 95 km north-west of Paris and 40 km from Rouen. Château-Gaillard - History. Richard I of England, simultaneously feudal Duke of Normandy, ordered the building of the castle in hardly more than 12 months, between 1197 and 1198. The goal was to protect Richard's duchy of Normandy from the French kings. The troops of Philip II of France captu ...

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Bratislava (until 1919: Prešporok in Slovak, Pressburg in German and English, Pozsony in Hungarian, Požun in Croatian) is the capital of Slovakia and the country's largest city, with a population of some 450,000. Bratislava lies on the River Danube, at Slovakia's borders with Austria and Hungary, and relatively close to the border with the Czech Republic. It is only 50 km (45-65 minutes by train) from Vienna. The Carpathian mountain range begins within the territory of the city with the Malé Karpaty (or Little ...

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The Ayyubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish origins which ruled Egypt, Syria, and northern Iraq in the 12th and 13th centuries. The Ayyubid Dynasty was founded by Saladin (Salah ah-Din), who, with his uncle Shirkuh, conquered Egypt for the Zengid King Nur ad-Din of Damascus in 1169. In 1171, Saladin deposed the last Fatimid Caliph, but he gradually became estranged from his former master. When Nur ed-Din died in 1174, Saladin declared war against Nur ed-Din's young son, As-Salih Ismail, and seized Damascus. Ismail fled ...

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Yusuf II (also Yusuf al-Mustansir, 1197 - 1224) was Caliph of Morocco from 1213 until his death. Son of the previous caliph, Muhammad an-Nasir, Yusuf assumed the throne following his father's death, at the age of only 16 years. Yusuf followed his father in leaving Ifriqiya in the hands of governor Abû Muhammad ben Abî Hafs, further contributing to its eventual breakaway under the Hafsid dynasty. Yusuf was soon challenged for the control of the Maghreb as well as Morocco itself by the growing power of the Merinid dynast ...

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Berenguela (or Berengaria) (1180 – November 8, 1246), was briefly queen of Castile and León. The eldest daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonora of Aquitaine, she was briefly engaged to Conrad II, Duke of Swabia, but he was murdered in 1197 before they could be married. Berenguela married Alfonso IX in 1198, but this was annulled in 1204 by Pope Innocent III because they were cousins. Berenguela and Alfonso had five children, including one who died in infancy, and when she returned to her f ...

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56°09′N 40°25′E Vladimir (Russian: Влади́мир) is a city in Russia, an administrative center of Vladimir Oblast. It is located on the river Klyazma 200 km to the east of Moscow. Geographical location is 56°09′N 40°25′E, and population is 315,954 inhabitants (2002). Vladimir is the medieval capital of Russia, and two of its cathedrals are a World Heritage Site. Vladimir - History. Vladimir - Foundation date controversy. Including:

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The Counts of Champagne ruled the region of Champagne, France from 1022 to 1314. Hugues of Champagne was the first of the family to officially use the title "Count of Champagne". When Louis became King of France in 1314, upon the death of his father Philip IV, Champagne became part of the Crown's territories. The titular counts of Champagne also inherited the post of seneschal of France. Eudes I (or Odo) (1022–1037), son of Odo I of Blois Stephen II (1037–1048), son of Eudes I Eudes II (1048� ...

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Corfu (ancient and modern Greek Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, Latin Corcyra; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an island of Greece, in the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Albania, from which it is separated by a strait varying in breadth from less than 2 to about 15 miles (3 to 25 km) including one near Albania near Butrint and a longer one west of Thesprotia. It has ferry services to the rest of Greece with Igoumenitsa and Gaios in the island of Paxoi and as far as Patras. There is also a small port in ...

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This is a list of the cities in Ireland, referring to those with a city charter. Cities are arranged in terms of traditional importance. Cities in Ireland - Republic of Ireland. Dublin - (1171) (capital) - pop. 495,781 (2002) (Greater Dublin Area - pop. 1,274,100) Cork - (1172) - pop. 123,062 (2002) Limerick - (1197) - pop. 54,023 (2002) Galway - (1484) - pop. 65,832 (2002) Waterford - (1171) - 44,594 (2002) Kilkenny - (1609) † - pop. 8,591 (2002) ...

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The archbishop of Paris is one of twenty-three archbishops in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by St. Denis, and it was elevated to an archdiocese on October 20, 1622. Its suffragan dioceses, created in 1966, are Créteil, Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes, Meaux, Nanterre, Pontoise, Saint-Denis, and Versailles. Its headquarters are at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The title of Duc de Saint-Cloud was created in 1674 for t ...

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Alfonso IX of León (August 15, 1171 – September 23 or 24, 1230; ruled from 1188–1230), first cousin of Alfonso VIII of Castile, and numbered next to him as being a junior member of the family, is said by Ibn Khaldun to have been called the Baboso or "Slobberer", because he was subject to fits of rage during which he foamed at the mouth. Alfonso was the only son of King Ferdinand II of Leon and Urraca of Portugal. Though he took a part in the work of the reconquest, this king is chiefly remembered by the difficu ...

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Annals (Latin Annales, from annus, a year) are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year. The chief sources of information in regard to the annals of ancient Rome are two passages in Cicero (De Oratore, ii. 12. 52) and in Servius (ad Aen. i. 373) which have been the subject of much discussion. Cicero states that from the earliest period down to the pontificate of Publius Mucius Scaevola (c. 131 BC), it was usual for the pontifex maximus to record on a whit ...

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1242 - Births. December 15 - Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (died 1274) Patrick de Dunbar, 7th Earl of Dunbar (died 1308) George Pachymeres, Byzantine historian 1242 - Deaths. February 10 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (born 1231) October 7 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (born 1197) William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle Archambaud VIII of Bourbon Hojo Yasutoki, regent of Japan (born 1183) Richard Mor de ...

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1192 - Births. September 17 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (died 1219) Giorgi IV Lasha, King of Georgia (died 1223) Stefan Radoslav, King of Serbia (died 1234) 1192 - Deaths. April 26 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (born 1127) April 28 - Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem May 5 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (born 1163) August 25 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (born 1142) Kilij Arslan II, Wultan ...

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1166 - Births. July 29 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197) December 24 - John of England (died 1216) Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (died 1218) William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (died 1240) 1166 - Deaths. May 7 - William I of Sicily Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo (according to legend) 1166 - Heads of states. England - Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 115 ...

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Myeongjong was the third son of King Injong, and king of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo (1170–1197). Although it was intended that Injong's second son should succeed his father*, he was assassinated because Chung Jung-Bu feared that he might become a threat to him in the future. Myeongjong was a weak king, and was merely on the throne to show the general populace they still had a king, as the true rulers were the military leaders. His reign saw constant bloodshed as well as the deaths of the rebels Chung Jung-bu, ...

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1158 - Births. September 23 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (died 1186) Marguerite of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (died 1197) Taira no Shigehira, son of Taira no Kiyomori (died 1185) 1158 - Deaths. August 30 - King Sancho III of Castile (born 1134) Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (born c. 1114) 1158 - Heads of states. England - Henry II Curt Mantle, King of ...

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