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Year 1226 (MCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

  • King Louis VIII of France launches a large southward offensive against the Albigensians and the Count of Toulouse. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence, uses the opportunity to reassert his authority upon the autonomous municipalities of his estates (October). Most cities have to accept the authority of the Count but Marseille and Nice rebel.
  • November 8 – Louis IX of France starts to rule on the death of Louis VIII.
  • King Sancho II of Portugal launches a large offensive against the Muslims and takes the city of Elvas.
  • Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, calls the Imperial Diet of Cremona.
  • Nuneaton is granted a Chartered market status by King Henry III of England.
  • Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles is overthrown as ruler of the Kingdom of the Isles and replaced with his half-brother, Olaf the Black.

    • Asia

  • October 30 – Trần Thủ Độ, head of the Trần dynasty of Vietnam, forces Lý Huệ Tông, last emperor of the Lý dynasty, to commit suicide.

    • Arts and culture

  • In Norway, Brother Robert writes Saga Af Tristram ok Ísodd, one of the rare fully surviving versions of the legend of Tristan and Iseult.

    • Religion

  • September 11 – The Catholic Church practice of eucharistic adoration among lay people formally begins in Avignon, Provence.
  • The Carmelite Order is approved by Pope Honorius III.

    • Births

  • June 21 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
  • Bar Hebraeus/Abul-Faraj, Syriac scholar, historian and bishop (d. 1286)
  • Hethum I, King of Armenia, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

    • Deaths

  • March 7 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
  • September 16 – Pandulf Verraccio, Roman ecclesiastical politician
  • October 3 – Francis of Assisi, Italian saint (b. 1181 or 1182)
  • November 8 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
  • November 14 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
  • date unknown – Robert de Ros, English baron (b. 1177)

    • References

    1226 Wikipedia
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