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Events

Politics and world affairs

England

January 8: Henry III, King of England since 1216, declares himself of age at a council meeting in Oxford. He can suppress a brief revolt of his brother Richard of Cornwall by giving him more land. The power of government remains for the time being with Hubert de Burgh.

France

January: Blanka of Castile succeeds through skilful negotiations, Theobald IV of Champagne and Henry II of Bar from the opposition alliance of the barons against their son Ludwig IX.
February 6: Blanka releases Count Ferrand of Flanders, who has been imprisoned for more than ten years and is now loyal to the French crown.
The noble uprising is so weakened by the change of sides of Theobald and Henry that Peter Mauclerc and Hugo X of Lusignan also submit on 16 March. Richard of Cornwall, who is allied with them, signs an armistice and retreats to England.
In the autumn, the uprising breaks out again when Peter Mauclerc tries to seize the person of the king at Corbeil. Louis IX, however, can flee with his small entourage in time to the strong Montlhéry castle and notify his mother in Paris, who rushes to help with an army of troops.
In Occitania there are alternating skirmishes between units of the Languedoc under Raimund VII. of Toulouse and royal troops under Humbert de Beaujeau.

Holy Roman Empire/Denmark

March 28: Margarete von Babenberg is crowned Roman-German Queen after her marriage to fellow King Heinrich in Aachen.
22 July: A North German coalition army under Adolf IV von Schauenburg and Holstein, Heinrich von Schwerin, the Bremen Archbishop Gerhard II. and Duke Albrecht of Saxony defeated the Danish King Waldemar II in the Battle of Bornhöved; The Eider thus becomes the German-Danish border and Lübeck restores its independence from Denmark. Dithmarschen becomes part of the Archdiocese of Bremen.

July 28: In the Battle of Ane, the army of knights of Utrecht bishop Otto II of Lippe meets the troops of Burggrave Rudolf II of Coevorden. The latter, supported by the farmers from Drente, carries the victory of it. The bishop is killed.

Poland
November: The Polish dukes, knights and bishops gathered for a Wiec in Gąsawa are attacked by the governor in Pomerania, Swantopolk II. with his men. Leszek I, the reigning Princeps in the Kingdom of Poland, is killed.

Balkans

After the death of Stefan Nemanjić, his son Stefan Radoslav becomes king of Rascia, the coastal countries and all Serbs.

The Crusade of Frederick II.

August: When a serious epidemic breaks out in his camp, from which numerous crusaders die, the self-ill Emperor Frederick II must postpone the planned crusade again. The new Pope Gregory IX