Crusades Timeline: 1249-1257

 


 

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



 

  Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1249 May 26   Bolognese defeat and capture Frederick's son Enzio, King of Sardinia, at La Fossalta
  Jun 5 Louis lands in Egypt, Seventh Crusade  
  Jun 6 Louis enters Damietta  
  Jul 8   Death of Alexander II, King of Scotland; succeeded by his son Alexander III
  Sep 27   Death of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse; succeeded by his son-in-law, Alfonse of Poitiers, brother of Louis IX
  Nov 23 Death of Ayyub, Sultan of Egypt; succeeded by his son, Turan Shah  
1250 Feb 2   Death of Eric XI of Sweden; succeeded by his nephew, Waldemar I
  Feb 8 Louis defeats the Egyptians at Mansurah  
  Apr 6 Egyptians defeat and capture Louis while he is withdrawing from Mansurah  
  May 2 Turan Shah murdered by Mamluk guards; end of the Ayyubid dynasty and beginning of the Mamluks  
  May 6 Louis is released after surrendering Damietta; he goes to Acre  
  Aug 9   Eric IV of Denmark murdered; succeeded by his brother Abel
  Dec 13   Death of Frederick II; succeeded by his son Conrad IV in Sicily
      Revolt in Gascony against Simon de Montfort
      Otto and John of Brandenburg found Frankfurt am Oder and establish the Neumark
1251 Mar   Rebellion in Sicily against Conrad IV
  May   Simon de Montfort suppresses the rebellion in Gascony
      Shepherds' Crusade
      War breaks out over Styria between Ottokar of Bohemia and B้la of Hungary
1252 May 30   Death of St. Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Leon; succeeded by his son, Alfonso X
  Jun 29   King Abel of Denmark defeated and killed by the Frisians; succeeded by his brother, Christopher I
      The people of Rome revolt against Innocent, establishing a commune under a Podestเ
      Alexander Nevski appointed Grand Duke of Vladimir
      Florence begins to coin the gold florin
      Hansa merchants receive trading privileges in Bruges
      Pope Innocent IV's bull ad extirpanda orders the use of torture in the examination of heretics
1253 Jul 8   Death of Theobald I of Navarrre; succeeded by his son Theobald II
  Aug 11   Death of St. Clara (60)
  Oct 9   Death of Robert Grosseteste
  Oct 10   Death of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia; succeeded by his son Ottokar II
    Louis IX sends William of Rubruck and Bartholomew of Cremona to the court of the Great Khan at Karakorum to seek his alliance against the Muslims  
      Swietopulk of East Pomerania makes peace with the Teutonic Knights
1254 Apr 9   Innocent again excommunicates Conrad IV
  Apr 22   Treaty of Toledo makes peace between Henry of England and Alfonso of Castile
  Apr 24 Louis leaves Palestine; civil war breaks out there  
  May 21   Death of Conrad IV, King of the Romans, Sicily and Jerusalem; succeeded in Sicily by his son Conradin
  Jul 11 Louis arrives back in France  
  Jul 13   Confederation of Rhenish towns forms
  Sep 13 Armenia becomes a vassal state of the Mongols  
  Nov 2   Manfred begins anti-papal revolt in the Regno, seizes Lucera
  Nov 3 Death of John III Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea; succeeded by his son, Theodore II Lascaris  
  Dec 2   Manfred defeats papal troops near Foggia
  Dec 7   Death of Innocent IV; Alexander IV elected
      Afonso of Portugal holds the first Cortes attended by the towns
      Registers of the Parlemenets of Paris begin
      Marco Polo born
      Llewelyn makes himself sole ruler of the Welsh
      Teutonic Knights found K๖nigsberg
1255 Sep   Papal troops in the Regno surrender to Manfred
  Nov   Romans expel their podestเ Brancaleone; Pope Alexander returns
    Death of Batu, Khan of the Golden Horde  
1256 Jan 28   Death of William of Holland, King of the Romans
  Dec Hulagu captures Assassin stronghold at Alamut; the Mongols now eliminate the Assassins in Persia  
      Alfonso X supervises the compilation of the Siete Partidas, a law code
      Alexander IV recognizes the Austin Friars as a mendicant order
      Albertus Magnus, De Unitate Intellectus contra Averroem
1257 Jan 13   Richard, Earl of Cornwall, elected King of the Romans; this is the first mention of the Seven Electors of the Empire
  May 17   Richard crowned King of the Romans at Aachen


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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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