1245 Explained
Year 1245 (MCCXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Winter - Siege of Jaén: Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III (the Saint) besiege the Moorish-held city of Jaén. During the siege Moorish knights sally out and manage to capture a Castilian supply caravan. Meanwhile, Ferdinand tries to launch attacks on the various city gates, but all are ineffective.
- In witness of the toll taken by war and fiscal pressure in the Kingdom of Castile, the region of Segovia is described this year as depopulated and sterile.[1]
England
Levant
By topic
Religion
Births
- January 16 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III (d. 1296)
- May 1 - Philip III (the Bold), king of France (d. 1285)
- November 14 - Sang Sapurba, Indonesian ruler (d. 1316)
- Antony Bek (or Beck), English bishop and patriarch (d. 1311)
- Araniko (or Anige), Nepalese architect and painter (d. 1306)
- Eric of Brandenburg, archbishop of Magdeburg (d. 1295)
- Fujiwara no Saneko, Japanese empress consort (d. 1272)
- Giovanna da Signa, Italian miracle worker and saint (d. 1307)
- Kikuchi Takefusa, Japanese nobleman and samurai (d. 1285)
- Kunigunda of Halych, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1285)
- Ma Duanlin, Chinese encyclopaedist and politician (d. 1322)
- Nichirō, Japanese Buddhist disciple and scholar (d. 1320)
- Rinaldo da Concorezzo, Italian priest and archbishop (d. 1321)
- Roger Bigod, English nobleman and Lord Marshal (d. 1306)
- Thomas de Berkeley (the Wise), English nobleman (d. 1321)
- Yahballaha III, patriarch of the Church of the East (d. 1317)
- Ziemomysł of Kuyavia, Polish ruler of Bydgoszcz (d. 1287)
Deaths
- January 27 - Ralph of Maidstone, bishop of Hereford
- January 28 - Giovanni Colonna, Italian cardinal (b. 1170)
- February 8 - John of la Rochelle, French theologian (b. 1200)
- February 15 - Baldwin de Redvers, English nobleman (b. 1217)
- March 22 - Roger I of Fézensaguet, French nobleman (b. 1190)
- July 22 - Kolbeinn ungi Arnórsson, Icelandic chieftain (b. 1208)
- August 19 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Spanish nobleman (b. 1198)
- August 21 - Alexander of Hales, English theologian (b. 1185)
- November 27 - Walter Marshal, English nobleman (b. 1209)
- December 4 - Christian of Oliva, bishop of Prussia (b. 1180)
- Adam of Harcarse, Scottish Cistercian priest and abbot
- Beatrice d'Este, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1215)
- Cletus Bél, Hungarian prelate, bishop and chancellor
- Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi, Syrian scholar and writer (b. 1173)
- Fujiwara no Tadataka, Japanese regent and monk (b. 1163)
- Guillaume le Vinier, French composer and poet (b. 1190)
- Ibn al-Salah, Syrian scholar, imam and writer (b. 1181)
- Isabel de Bolebec, English noblewoman and co-heiress
- Rusudan of Georgia, queen consort of Georgia (b. 1194)
Notes and References
- Book: Linehan, Peter. Peter Linehan. The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. 1999. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 0-521-36289-X. 668–699 [670]. David Abulafia. Abulafia, David . Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre.
- Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, pp. 190–191. .
- Yule, Henry; Beazley, Charles Raymond (1911). "Carpini, Joannes de Piano". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 397–399.
- Hywel Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 141. .