1220 To 12291220x - Leopold VI of Austria presented the Teutonic Knights the site of the castle of Montfort near Acre
x - Japan The Heike Monogatari (the Tale of the Heike) is completed.
x - Dordrecht receives city rights, making it the oldest city in the present-day Netherlands
x - Mongols first invade Abbasid caliphate - Bukhara and Samarkand taken
x - End of the Kara-Khitan Khanate, destroyed by Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry
x - Conrad of Masovia drives out the heathen Prussians from a Masovian territory of Chelmno Land
x - Trial by ordeal abolished in England
0440136482@ x - The German Hohenstaufen dynasty which had ruled Sicily since 1194, adopts Palermo as its principal seat
x - The Islamic lands of Central Asia are overrun by the armies of the Mongol invader Genghis Khan c.1155-1227, who laid waste to many civilizations and created an empire that stretched from China to the Caspian Sea. But he failed to destroy the strength of Islam in Central Asia.
x - Architecture Gothic architecture in Europe Rebuilding of the Cathedral of Chartres, which had been destroyed by a fire in 1194, is completed
x - Architecture Building of the York Minster begins
x - EnglandArchitecture Work on the Lady Chapel of Salisbury Cathedral begins.
spr 00 - Hermann von Salza went to Acre with King John of Jerusalem
apr 15 - Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies.
apr 26 - German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights.
may 30 - Alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler 1252-
nov 00 - Hermann von Salza was with Frederick II in Italy; first identified by name as Hermann von Salza in documents
nov 22 - After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth Crusade within nine months, Frederick II was crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III.
1221x - Russia Nizhny Novgorod was founded.
x - Emperor Frederick II issued a law that declared that violence could be committed against jesters without punishment.
x - France The Chateau de Bagnols castle was built.
x - Alfonso X, king of Castile, born r.1252 -1284. Also known as Alfonso the Wise. His manuscript "Cantigas de Santa Maria" is one of the most important of the period.d.1284
x - Genghis Khan is said to have killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in just one hour.
x - Japan The Shokyu (Jokyu) Disturbance
jan 09 - Pope Honorius III gave privileges to the Teutonic Knights.As an order, they now were on the same level as the Templars and the Hospitallers
apr mi - Hermann von Salza accompany the duke of Bavaria and other German nobles to Damietta. They arrive in 1221
may 00 - Japan Juntoku abdicates.
jun 06 - Japan Retired Emperor Go-Toba rebels against the Kamakura Bakufu.
jul 05 - Japan Go-Toba's forces are defeated at the 3rd Battle of the Uji Bridge by Hôjô Yasutoki; Go-Toba, Juntoku, and Tsuchimikado are all exiled.
aug 30 - Fifth Crusade Battle of Mansurah. Crusaders surrendered in Egypt. The Templars led the rearguard action. A peace treaty and Hermann von Salza and the master of the Temple held as hostages by the Muslims
1222x - University of Padua founded.
x - Japan Nichiren, the founder of the Lotus sect of Buddhism, is born.
1223x - Hermann von Salza negotiated with Pope Honorius III over Gunzelin; Later in the Holy Land, he arranged the marriage for the emperor
x - Pope Honorius III gives papal sanctions to the Franciscan order.
x - First recorded tournament in Arthurian dress.
dec 25 - St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy.
1224x - Hermann von Salza was involved in the Treaty of Dannenberg
x - University of Naples founded.
x - Japan Hôjô Yasutoki becomes regent following the death of Yoshitoki.
1225c - Thomas Aquinas born d.1274 in Aquino between Rome and Naples.He will be a pupil of the Benedictines in the monastery of Monte Cassino. After nine years Emperor Frederic II will temporarily disband the monks at Cassino and Thomas will go to Naples to study and join the Dominicans.
x - Teutonic Knights forcibly expelled from Burzenland by king Andrew II; Conrad of Masovia requested aid from the Teutonic Knights in Prussia
x - Japan Hôjô Masako, the 'Nun Shôgun' (AmaShôgun), dies.
nov 00 - Holy Roman Emeror Frederick II marries Isabella Yolanda of Brienne and claimed the throne of Jerusalem. Hermann von Salza is present
nov 07 - Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40.
1226x - France Era of King Louis IX. u.1270The urban middle-class became a new, economic factor, and King Louis IX tried to control his vassals through his policy of increased centralization. It was the era in which the crusades were winding down, and the embassies of Franciscans and Dominicans to the courts of Mongolian princes were beginning.
x - The last megahurricane struck the gulf coast of Alabama. The megahurricane seems to happen on average every 600 years.
x - "Golden Bull of Rimini" from Holy Roman Emeror Frederick II for the Teutonic Knights giving them wide-ranging authority in the name of the empire in Prussia
x - Japan January Hôjô Yasutoki establishes a board of councilors (hyojoshu), which becomes the most important body in the Kamakura government.
oct 03 - St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228 and entombed in the St. Francis Basilica in 1230.
nov 08 - Louis IX succeeded Louis VIII as king of France.
1227x - Montfort rebuilt and renamed Starkenberg
0060925531@ x - SpainArchitecture Construction of the Gothic Cathedral in Toledo begins.
x - Japan Hôjô Tokiyori is born
jan 06 - Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre.
mar 18 - Pope Honorius III, Cencio Savelli, r.1216-1227, dies.re.List of Popes
mar 19 - Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX r.u.1241. re.List of Popes
aug 18 - The Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan dies and his empire partitioned.
sep 29 - Pope Gregory IX excommunicate Frederik II.
1228x - St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, is canonized.
x - The Basilica di San Francesco was constructed in Assisi, Italy.
jun 18 - Emperor Frederick II, King of Jerusalem through marriage to Isabell Yolanda, sailed East on the Sixth Crusade.
sep 18 - Frederick II arrived in the Holy Land accompanied by Hermann von Salza.
nov 05 - Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China.
1229x - Ogedai Khan rules Mongals u.1241
x - Japan Hôjô Nagatoki is born
feb 00 - Christians regain Jerusalem when Al-Kamil surrenders it to Emperor Frederick II, but lose it in 1244
mar 18 - Frederick II crowned King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem; then held high court in the house of the Hospital of St. John
apr 00 - Frederick II gave Teutonic Knights former house of Germans in Jerusalem; also a house that once belonged to King Baldwin located in the Armenian street near the church of St. Thomas, a garden and six acres of land
apr 00 - Peace of Paris ends the Albigensian Crusade.heresy is destroyed, southern France economically shattered.
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