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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Rooster丁酉( at the beginning of the year Fire Monkey丙申)

Syria: 1548/49 ( the year in October )

• Secured 3.1 Date of Death
• 3.2 More death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• February: Conrad IV is elected Holy Roman king.
• November 27: In northern Italy wins the Emperor Frederick II in the Battle of Cortenuova a victory over an army of the Lombard League.

• The German Order unites with the Livonian Order. This reach Livonia and Courland in the possession of the Order (see German Ostsiedlung ).

Asia

• December 21: The city of Ryazan is almost completely destroyed after a successful siege by the Mongols under Batu Khan.

• Kai Khosrau II is its downfall begins I. rulers in the Sultanate of Rum Seljuk Turks in the years after the death of his father, Kai Kobad.

Ersturkundliche mentions and civic rights

• The first documented mention of Coelln ( sister city of Berlin), Geislingen, Babenhausen ( Schwaben), Merzalben, Paspels, Sedrun and angle
• The towns of Arras, Gera and get Iserlohn municipal rights.

Culture

• 1237: Guillaume de Lorris wrote the Roman de la rose.

Religion

• Foundation of the Cistercian monastery Good cell
• In Roskilde a Franciscan monastery was founded.
• Second consecration of Bamberg Cathedral

Born

• July: Isabel de Redvers, 8th Countess of Devon, English nobleman († 1293 )

• Bohemond VI. , Prince of Antioch and Count of Tripoli ( † 1275 )
• Árni Þorláksson, Bishop of Skálholt in Iceland († 1298 )

• 1237: Adam de la Halle, French Troubadour († 1286/87 or 1306)

Died

Backed death

• JANUARY 24: Barthélemy de Roye, Grand Chamberlain of France (c. 1170 )
• MARCH 23: John of Brienne, King / Regent of Jerusalem (c. 1169/74 )

• June 5: Eckhart von Bamberg, imperial governor of Austria and Styria, Bishop of Bamberg ( * after 1173 )
• June 17: Ulrich IV of Kyburg · Bishop of Chur
• June 29: Henry III. Ravensburg, Bishop of Eichstätt
• August 27: al- Ashraf Musa, Sultan of Syria

More death unknown

• After August 15: Guillem Bernat I. d' Entença, Catalan commander

• Kai Kobad I., Sultan of Rum - Seljuks
• Jordan of Saxony, Grand Master of the Dominicans (c. 1200)