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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Ox辛丑( at the beginning of the year metal rat庚子)

Syria: 1552/53 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Mongol invasion

Crusades

• The crusade of Richard of Cornwall achieved through diplomatic channels to the assignment of Galilee and the areas west of the Jordan to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. This is the biggest territorial gains of the Crusaders since the First Crusade.

Europe

• MAY 3: With the arrest of high-ranking church leaders at the Battle of Giglio Emperor Frederick II prevents the realization of a directed against him church council in Rome.
• May 7: King Wenceslaus of Bohemia signed the Oberlausitzer border certificate.
• Polesia falls under the influence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
• Ulrich I., the founder is Count of Württemberg.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• First mention of Dättlikon, Niedermuhlern, Sebnitz, Rapperswil BE, Stettfeld and vineyard

Religion

• Pentecost: John of Wildeshausen is elected at the General Chapter in Paris for the fourth Grand Master of the Dominicans.

On August 22, dies after nearly 14 years of pontificate, Pope Gregory IX. in Rome. Thus ends temporarily conflict with Emperor Frederick II, who at Easter prevents the convening of a meeting convened by Gregor Council by having captured several princes of the Church. First time, a conclave convened to elect a successor to Gregory. The Roman senator Matteo Rosso Orsini leaves the Cardinals on the Septizodium, a ruin on the Palatine Hill set. One of the Cardinals dies as a result of the unbearable heat and the catastrophic hygienic circumstances.

However Nevertheless, the conclave can until 25 October at the Cardinal Bishop of Sabina, Goffredo da Castiglione, some. For those cardinals can enforce that want to work towards a reconciliation with the Emperor Frederick. But Goffredo, who takes the name of Celestine IV is so weakened by the conclave that he, even before his enthronement, died when he was on 10 November. The subsequent Sedisvakanz takes almost two years.

Born

• 04 September: . Alexander III, King of Scotland († 1286)

• December 01: Margaretha von Staufen, Landgrave of Thuringia and Countess Palatine of Saxony ( † 1270)

• Mechthild of Hackeborn, Cistercian and mystic († 1298/99 )

Died

• January 3: Hermann II, Landgrave of Thuringia since 1227 (* 1222 )
• MARCH 28: Valdemar II, King of Denmark (* 1170 )
• April 9: Henry II, Duke of Wrocław, Poland since 1238 ( * 1196/1207 )
• JUNE 27: Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and Earl Marshal
• August 22: . Gregory IX, Pope since 1227 (* 1167 )

• September 22: Snorri Sturluson, Old Icelandic skald / poet and historian (* 1179 )
• September 26: Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese poet (* 1162 )

• Amaury VII of Montfort, Earl, constable of France, Crusader (* 1195)

• After 1241: Leonardo Fibonacci, an Italian mathematician (* 1170 )