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Year 1239 (MCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • March 20 – Pope Gregory IX excommunicates Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • November – The pope grants the status of Crusade to king of Castile's ongoing invasion of the muslim kingdom of Murcia.
  • Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor conducts the Siege of Faenza.
  • The main tower of Lincoln Cathedral in England collapses.
  • Foundation of Netley Abbey in England.
  • Mongol invasion of Rus is in progress, bringing with it a pandemic of Rinderpest.

    • Births

  • June 17 or June 18 – King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
  • December 17 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
  • Peter III of Aragon (d. 1285)
  • John II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1305)

    • Deaths

  • March 3 – Vladimir IV Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1187)
  • March 20 – Hermann von Salza, fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
  • March 28 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
  • Cormac mac Art O Melaghlain, King of Meath

    • References

    1239 Wikipedia
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