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1247

1247 - Events

• Shams ad-Din disappears resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance.
• Romford, London, England is chartered as a market town.
• Bedlam becomes part of London.
• Thuringian War of Succession begins.
• Ch'in Chiu-Shao publishes the original form of the Chinese remainder theorem.
• Pope Innocent IV sends missionaries to attempt to convert the Mongols.
• Egypt takes control of Jerusalem from the Kharezmians.
• Nijmegen becomes part of Gelderland.
• The Romanesque cathedral of St. Pierre is begun in Beauvais.
• Afonso III succeeds Sancho II as King of Portugal.
• Saint Louis massacres the last remaining Catharists at Montségur.

1247 - Births

• Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (died 1271)
• Angelo da Clareno, founder of Fraticelli (died 1337)
• Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (died 1255)
• John II, Count of Hainaut (died 1304)
• Rashid al-Din, Persian writer and historian (died 1318)
• Zhang Sanfeng, Chinese Taoist priest
• Giles of Rome, Roman archbishop and philosopher

1247 - Deaths

• February 16 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (born 1204)

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