Crusades Timeline: 1215-1220

 


 

Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.



 

  Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1215 Jan 8   Simon de Montfort elected Lord of Languedoc
  Apr 25   Louis IX born
  May 17   Barons in revolt against John; they take London
  Jun 19 Magna Carta signed at Runnymede  
  Aug 28   Innocent excommunicates John's opponents
  Sep   Innocent annuls Magna Carta
  Oct 13   John lays siege to Rochester Castle, a rebel stronghold
  Nov   Fourth Lateran Council begins
      Fourth Lateran Council institutes the first papal tithe of the clergy
      Fourth Lateran Council decrees Jews must wear distinctive clothing
    Kublai Khan born  
1216 Jan   John invades Scotland
  May 21   Philip's son Louis lands in England at the invitation of the barons
  Jun 11 Death of Henry of Flanders, Latin Emperor of Constantinople; succeeded by Peter of Courtenay  
  Jul 16   Death of Innocent III; succeeded by Honorius III
  Aug 24   Beaucaire falls to Raymond of Toulouse
  Oct 19   Death of King John; succeeded by Henry III, a minor
  Nov 12   Henry's council re-issues Magna Carta
      Leo of Armenia captures Antioch
      Dominicans recognized by Honorius
      Poor Clares recognized by Honorius
1217 May 20   William the Marshal and loyalists defeat Louis and the rebels at Lincoln
  Jun   Death of Henry of Castile; succeeded by Ferdinand III
  Aug 23   French fleet destroyed by English off Sandwich
  Sep 12   English rebels yield; Louis is paid to leave
  Sep 25   Afonso of Portugal defeats Muslims at Alcazar de Sol
  Nov First contingents of the Fifth Crusade arrive in Palestine  
      Inge II succeeded as King of Norway by Haakon IV
      Bishop Albert of Riga defeats Estonians at Fellin
      Stephen of Rascia crowned King of Serbia
    Peter of Courtenay captured by Theodore Ducas, Despot of Epirus  
      First Franciscans arrive in Paris
1218 Jan 10 Death of Hugh I of Cyprus; succeeded by his son Henry I  
  Mar   Henry makes peace with Llewelyn of Wales
  May   Frederick makes Berne an imperial free city
  May 19   Death of Otto IV, formerly Holy Roman Emperor
  May 29 Fifth Crusade lands at Damietta  
  Jun 25   Simon de Montfort killed at siege of Toulouse
  Aig 1   Pope Honorius proclaims a second Albigensian Crusade
  Aug 25 Crusaders take a fort outside Damietta  
  Aug 31 Death of Sultan al-Adil; succeeded by his sons, al-Kamil in Egypt and al Mu`azzam in Damascus  
      Waldemar of Denmark invades Estonia and builds a castle at Reval
      Amiens Cathedral burns
1219 May 2 Death of Leo II, King of Armenia  
  May 14   Death of William the Marshal
  Aug St. Francis preaches in Egypt to the Sultan  
  Aug 1   Louis VII abandons the Albigensian Crusade
  Nov 5 Crusaders take Damietta  
      Honorius III bans the teaching of Roman law at the University of Paris
1220 Mar   Charles of Anjou born
  May   St. Francis resigns as governor of his order
  May   First general chapter of the Dominicans
  Aug 5 Crusader army trapped at Mansourah and forced to surrender  
  Sep 8 Crusaders evacuate Damietta  
  Nov 22   Pope Honorius crowns Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor
      John I succeeds Eric X as King of Sweden
      Reconstruction of Amiens Cathedral begun
      Salisbury Cathedral begun
      Michael Scot translates Averroes' commentaries on Aritstotle
      The Elder Edda begun (Norse saga)
    Bohemond recovers Antioch from Raymond-Roupen of Armenia  
      Alfonso XI of Leon founds University of Salamanca
      Nτtre Dame at Paris completed

• 1095-1099 • 1100-1120 • 1121-1144 • 1145-1163 • 1164-1187 • 1188-1197 • 1198-1214 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •

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The timeline was created by  Skip Knox, who is an adjunct professor of history at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho USA since 1986. He received his MA in medieval history at the University of Utah in 1980 and his PhD in early modern European social and economic history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984.        http://crusades.boisestate.edu/

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