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Calendar year
Sultan
Muhammad I (right) submits to King
Ferdinand III (the Saint ) (1883)
Year 1246 (
MCCXLVI ) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
February 28 –
Siege of Jaén : Castilian forces, led by King
Ferdinand III (the Saint ), manage to take the city of
Jaén from the
Andalucians . In a combined assault with the knights of the
Order of Santiago , the city is handed over by Sultan
Muhammad I , who accepts Ferdinand's overlordship in exchange for a 20-year truce. The
Emirate of Granada becomes a
vassal state of the
Kingdom of Castile .
[1]
May 22 –
Henry Raspe is elected
anti-king in Germany in opposition to
Conrad IV of Germany and Conrad's father, the excommunicated emperor
Frederick II .
June 15 –
Battle of the Leitha River : Hungarian forces, under King
Béla IV , defeat Duke
Frederick II (the Quarrelsome ) at the banks of the
Leitha River . Frederick is killed (leaving no male heirs); the
House of Babenberg is dissolved. Emperor
Frederick II places the fiefs of
Austria and
Styria under his rule. This ends the Austrian claims to the western
counties of
Hungary .
[2]
November –
Michael II Asen , ruler (
tsar ) of the
Bulgarian Empire , succeeds his brother
Kaliman I (possibly poisoned). He confirms the reconquest of Bulgarian territories against
John III (Doukas Vatatzes ), Byzantine ruler of the
Empire of Nicaea .
[3]
Frederick II suppresses a Sicilian revolt and deports the remaining Muslim inhabitants of
Lucera (approximate date).
Mongol Empire
Levant
Asia
By topic
Arts
Nature
Religion
Births
March 8 –
Nikkō Shōnin , Japanese religious leader (d.
1333 )
March 24 –
Henry Bate of Mechelen , Brabantian philosopher
September 14 –
John FitzAlan , English
nobleman (d.
1272 )
Angelo da Furci , Italian priest, orator and theologian (d.
1327 )
Drakpa Odzer , Tibetan
Imperial Preceptor (Dishi ) (d.
1303 )
Enrique Enríquez (the Elder ), Castilian nobleman (d.
1323 )
Hugh of Lincoln (Little Saint ), English Jewish boy (d.
1255 )
Jutta of Denmark (or Judith ), Danish princess and
abbess
Konoe Motohira , Japanese nobleman and
regent (d.
1268 )
Nicholas of Tolentino , Italian monk, friar and mystic (d.
1305 )
Paolo Malatesta , Italian nobleman and diplomat (d.
1285 )
Riccobaldo of Ferrara , Italian chronicler and geographer
Safi al-Din al-Hindi , Indian scholar and theologian (d.
1315 )
Takezaki Suenaga , Japanese retainer and
samurai (d.
1314 )
Teodosije the Hilandarian , Serbian hagiographer (d.
1328 )
Deaths
February 25 –
Dafydd ap Llywelyn , Welsh prince (b.
1212 )
April 15 –
Peter González (Telmo ), Castilian priest (b
1190 )
May 19 –
Umiliana de' Cerchi , Italian noblewoman (b.
1219 )
June 4 –
Isabella of Angoulême , queen consort of
England
June 15 –
Frederick II , duke of
Austria and
Styria (b.
1211 )
June 16 –
Lutgardis (or Lutgarde ), Flemish nun (b.
1182 )
June 28 –
Al-Mansur Ibrahim , Ayyubid governor and ruler
September 20 –
Michael of Chernigov , Kievan Grand Prince
September 30 –
Yaroslav II , Kievan Grand Prince (b.
1191 )
October 22 –
Mieszko II (the Fat ), duke of
Kalisz -
Wieluń
November 3 –
Robert de Bingham , bishop of
Salisbury
November 8 –
Berengaria (the Great ), queen of
Castile
Alice of Champagne , queen consort of
Cyprus (b.
1193 )
Ednyfed Fychan , Welsh nobleman and knight (b.
1170 )
Elias of Dereham , English master
stonemason designer
Erard of Brienne-Ramerupt , French nobleman (b. 1170)
Eva Marshal , Cambro-Norman noblewoman (b.
1203 )
Geoffrey II of Villehardouin , prince of
Achaea (b.
1195 )
Henry Audley (or Aldithel ), English nobleman (b.
1175 )
Hōjō Tsunetoki , Japanese nobleman and regent (b.
1224 )
Kaliman Asen I , ruler of the
Bulgarian Empire (b.
1234 )
Kaykhusraw II , ruler of the
Sultanate of Rum (b.
1221 )
Matteo Rosso Orsini , Italian nobleman and politician
Muhammad Al-Makki , Arab ruler and explorer (b.
1145 )
Richard FitzRoy , illegitimate son of
John (Lackland )
Tello Téllez de Meneses , bishop of
Palencia (b. 1170)
Temüge (or Otgon ), brother of
Genghis Khan (b.
1168 )
Theodora Angelina , Byzantine noblewoman (b. 1190)
Walter IV (the Great ), French nobleman and knight
Walter Stewart , Scottish politician and
High Steward
Wansong Xingxiu , Chinese
Buddhist monk (b.
1166 )
References
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Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In
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ISBN
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ISBN
978-80-246-1645-2 .
^ Hywel Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History , p. 141.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Daftary, Farhad (1992).
The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines . Cambridge University Press. pp. 418–420.
ISBN
978-0-521-42974-0 .
^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre , p. 192.
ISBN
978-0241-29877-0 .
^ Munro, John H. (2003). "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution". The International History Review . 15 (3): 506–562.