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Events

Politics and world affairs

Holy Roman Empire

March: The designated Roman-German King Frederick II. set off against the advice of his wife Konstanze with only a small following from Sicily to Germany. Previously, at the request of the Pope, Innocent III, he had his one-year-old son Henry crowned King of Sicily and handed over to the regency of his wife.
July 22: The Welfen Emperor Otto IV. She married Beatrix von Schwaben, the daughter of Philip von Schwaben, who died on August 11. The Staufer-friendly imperial princes then again fall away from Otto.
September: Frederick II arrives in Constance hours before his opponent Otto IV.

September 26: The Staufer Friedrich II. In Basel, the Sicilian Golden Bull officially confirms the Přemyslid Ottokar I as King of Bohemia and his brother Vladislav Heinrich as Margrave of Moravia.
In November, Frederick concludes with the French King Philip II. August, an alliance that brings him 20,000 silver marks. He immediately distributes this money among the great men of the Reich in order to reward them for their efforts in the Reich's service and to secure their support in the future.
December 5: The Staufer Friedrich II is once again elected king in Frankfurt am Main. The coronation takes place on 9. December in Mainz Cathedral with recreated insignia by the Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried II of Eppstein.
The consular government in Siena, which has existed since 1125, ends.

Peregrinatio puerorum (Children’s Crusade)

Easter: Thousands of young people from the Rhineland and Lower Lorraine set off for Palestine in the so-called “Children’s Crusade”. The leader is allegedly Nikolaus, a young man from Cologne. From Cologne, the group moves via Trier to Speyer and from there further south. Through Cremona and Piacenza, the crusade participants finally arrive on the 25th. August in Genoa. The train is already dispersing in Italy.
around Pentecost: Several by Pope Innocent III. Arranged processions in the Chartres and Paris area become independent until around 30,000 people move through France during the year under the leadership of Stefan von Cloyes. The movement is carried out by King Philip II. August dissolved with the request to go home. But there are still unrest in individual cities until June / July.

Albigensian crusade

Simon de Montfort continues to use the Albigensian crusade to conquer the lands of the exiled Count Raimund VI of Toulouse. At the end of the year, he is the de facto ruler of the entire county of Toulouse. Only the capital Toulouse itself is still successfully resisting.
1 December: At his court in Pamiers, Simon de Montfort announces the statutes for the “Albigenserland” he has conquered. Around the same time, Raimund von Toulouse forms a community of interests with King Peter II. of Aragon, whose strengthening vassal de Montfo