1247
Events Shams ad-Din disappears resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance. Romford, London, England is chartered as a market town.Bedlam becomes part of London.Thuringian War of Succession begins.Ch'in Chiu-Shao publishes the original form of the Chinese remainder theorem.Pope Innocent IV sends missionaries to attempt to convert the Mongols.Egypt takes control of Jerusalem from the Kharezmians.Nijmegen becomes part of Gelderland.The Romanesque cathedral of St. Pierre is begun in Beauvais.Afonso III succeeds Sancho II as King of Portugal.Saint Louis massacres the last remaining Catharists at Montségur. Births Chang San FengHugh of Lincoln, supposed victim of blood libelAngelo da Clareno, founder of a group of Fraticelli Isabelle d'Aragon, wife of Philip III of FrancePossible birthdate of Zhang Sanfeng, a semi-mythical Taoist master Deaths William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of DerbyHeinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276) Castile - Ferdinand III, the Saint King of Castile and Leon (reigned from 1217 to 1252)
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