Crusades Timeline: 1221-1229

 

 

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



 

  Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1221 Feb George IV of Georgia defeated near Tiflis by the Mongols  
  Mar 25 Robert de Courtenay crowned as Latin Emperor of Constantinople  
  Aug   First Dominicans arrive in England
  Aug 6   St. Dominic dies
      St. Bonaventura born
Alfonso X born
1222 Aug   Death of Raymond VI of Toulouse; succeeded by his son Raymond VII
      Alexander II of Scotland drives the Vikings out of Argyll
    Death of Theodore Lascaris of Nicaea; succeeded by John III Ducas Vatatzes  
      Padua University founded
      Younger Edda, by Snorri Sturlason
      Andrew of Hungary issues Golden Bull for Hungary
1223 Mar 25   Death of Afonso II the Fat of Portugal; succeeded by his son Sancho II
  May 20   Pope Honorius taxes French clergy for the Albigensian Crusade
  Jul 14   Death of Philip II; succeeded by his son Louis VIII
      Death of John of Sweden; succeeded by Eric XI, son of Eric X
    Death of George IV of Georgia; succeeded by his sister Rusadan  
1224 Feb   Amaury of Montfort cedes his conquests from the Albigensian Crusade to King Louis VIII
  May 5   Louis VIII declares war on Henry III
  Jun 5   Frederick II founds the University of Naples
  Aug   St. Francis receives the stigmata
  Aug 14   Henry III suppresses the revolt of Fawkes de Breauté
      Andrew II grants autonomy to German settlers in Transylvania
1225 Feb 11   Magna Carta is reissued by Henry III
  Feb 15   Pope Honorius condemns Raymond VII of Toulouse as a heretic
  Nov 7   Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne, Frederick's vice-regent in Germany, is murdered
  Nov 9 Frederick II marries Queen Yolanda, daughter of John of Brienne, thus becoming King of Jerusalem  
    John Ducas defeats Latins at Poimanenon  
      Ferdinand III of Castile takes Andujar from the Moors
      Ecke von Repkowe, the Sachsenspiegel, a Latin work on Saxon customs; the oldest legal treatise in Germany
      Visby Cathedral, Gothland
      Francis of Assisi, Il Cantico di Frate Sole (Canticle of Brother Sun), the oldest piece of Italian poetry
      Snorri Sturlason, Heimskringla
      The "Lille" Book of Stories, the earliest piece of French prose fiction
1226 Jan 30   Louis VIII takes over the Albigensian Crusade
  Mar 6   Second Lombard League forms
  Oct 3   Death of St. Francis (45)
  Nov 8   Louis VIII dies; succeeded by his son Louis IX; Blanche of Castile is regent
  Nov 27   First league of Rhenish towns is defeated by Frederick
      Ezzelino da Romana becomes podestį of Verona
      Prince Konrad of Masovia grants Chelmo to the Teutonic Knights, to serve as a base for their conquest of Prussia
      Lübeck becomes a Free Imperial City
1227 Jan 8   Henry III declares himself to be of age
  Mar 16   Treaty of Vendōme ends rebellion by Brittany
  Mar 18   Death of Pope Honorius III; succeeded by Gregory IX
  Jul 22   Waldemar of Denmark defeated at Bornhöved by Count Schwerin and Hansa allies
  Aug 24 Death of Ghengiz Khan; his empire is divided; his grandson Batu inherits Kazakhstan and European Russia (origin of the Golden Horde)  
  Sep 29   Gregory excommunicates Frederick for his failure to go on crusade
  Nov 11   Al-Kamil of Egypt seizes Jerusalem
      Bishop Albert of Riga defeats and converts the Osilians
      Toledo Cathedral begun
      Henry of Latvia, History of Livonia
      Birth of St. Thomas Aquinas
1228 Apr   Conrad IV born
  Jun 28 Frederick sails for Palestine; Gregory excommunicates him again  
  Jul 9   Death of Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
      James of Aragon conquers the Balearics
    Death of Robert of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople; succeeded by his son Baldwin II; John of Brienne is regent  
      Death of Stephen of Serbia
1229 Feb 18   Frederick signs treaty with al-Kamil, ending the Sixth Crusade
  Mar 18 Frederick crowns himself King of Jerusalem  
  Apr 11   End of the Albigensian Crusade
  Jun Al-Ashraf takes Damascus  
  Jun 10   Frederick defeats John of Brienne, who was leading a papal crusade against Sicily
      Waldemar of Denmark surrenders Holstein, Mecklenburg and Pomerania in a treaty with the Count of Schwerin
      Death of Bishop Albert of Riga

1095-10991100-11201121-11441145-11631164-11871188-11971198-1214
1215-12201221-12291230-12481249-12571258-12691270-1291

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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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