1230 to 12391230c - Spain ? Inquisition by Christians.
x - Kulm recognized by Pope Gregory IX + as belonging to the Teutonic Knights +
x - King Wenceslas I reigned over Bohemia. u.1253
1231x - Teutonic Knights + won the battle at Sirguna, Prussia
x - Gautier of Brienne gave the Teutonic Knights Beauvoi
x - Pope Gregory IX + took control of Prussia and leased it to the Teutonic Knights
x - Teutonic Knights' Hermann Balke advanced into Prussia
x - St. Elizabeth of Hungary died at Marburg; later was canonized
1232c - Raimon Llull born. A Mallorcan Catholic Franciscan poet. He declared that his ecstatic Christian spirituality drew from the example of Sufis like Rumi. u.1315
1233x - The Japanese royal family began to stain their teeth black in a fashion statement.
x - The Inquisition began and lasted into the 19th century.
1235c - Roman de la Rose I.
x - Henry III received 3 leopards from Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor. They became part of the Royal Menagerie housed in the Tower of London.
x - China ?+ A murder was solved when field men were told to lay down their rice sickles and flies landed on only one.
x - The king of Mali, Sundiata, defeated Sumanguru at the battle of Kirina. From then on Mali replaced Ghana as the major power in West Africa. Sundiata established his capital at Niana on the upper Niger.
spr - Dobriner Order incorporated into Teutonic Knights +; approved by Frederick II and Gregory IX
sep - Andrew II of Hungary died; Bela IV succeeded him u.1270
1236x - Ferdinand III of Castile captures Cordoba.
x - Grand Duke Mindaugas united and ruled the Lithuanian people. u.1263
jan 14 - Henry III married Eleanor of Provence.
jun 29 - Spain ? Ferdinand III of Castille and Leon took Cordoba with his Christian forces. The last Islamic kingdom left in Spain is that of the Berbers in Granada.
dec - Pope Gregory IX + taxed the Peloponnesus to support crusading ventures; preceptor of the Teutonic Knights identified in the Morea as one of three collectors of the tithing effort
1237x - Russia ? Batu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, invades Keiven Rus'. Over the next three years the MongolsTatars destroyed the major cities of Kievan Rus' with the exceptions of Novgorod and Pskov.
x - Teutonic Knights absorb Brethren of the Sword.
x - Frederick II's second Lombard campaign; Hermann von Salza ? at Battle of Cortenuova 1237 Teutonic Knights and Swordbrothers unite
jul - Geoffrey II of Achaia gave the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Andravida
1238x - Frederick II's third Lombard campaign; Hermann von Salza's health fails.
feb 03 - The Mongols take over Vladimir, Russia.
sep 28 - Spain ? James of Aragon retook Valencia from the Arabs.
1239c - Popes Gregory IX + and Innocent IV + called Political Crusades against Emperor Frederick II re.List of Popes
x - Kiev falls to mongols.
mar - Robert de l'Isle donates property (Villegrot) near Veligosti to the Teutonic Knights
mar - Hermann von Salza ? died in Salerno and buried in Barletta; Frederick II excommunicated
jun 17 - Edward I, later king of England ?+, was born. He becomes king of England following the death of his father Henry III in 1272.
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