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Year 1244 (MCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • March 16 – Following their successful 9-month siege of Montségur, French royal forces burn about 210 Cathar Perfecti and unrepentant credentes.
  • The Christian Reconquista in Iberia enjoys a string of successes:
  • March 26 – By the treaty of Almirra, the king of Aragon and prince of Castile come to an agreement on the attribution of Muslim lands to still to be conquered.
  • May 22 – James I of Aragon takes the Muslim-held city of Janita after several months of siege. This success is followed by the capture of Biar later that year.
  • James I of Aragon reconquers Altea, Spain.
  • The heir prince of Castile conduct a series of military operations to support the Muslim Huddite rulers of Murcia against rebel strongholds.
  • Siege and Fall of Jerusalem leading to the Seventh Crusade.
  • Sultan Malik al-Muattam razes the city walls of Jerusalem.
  • August 23 – The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
  • October 17 – Battle of La Forbie: the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem is defeated by the Ayyubids and Khwarezmians.
  • Dogen Zenji establishes the Eiheiji temple in Japan, thus founding the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism.

    • Births

  • June 24 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1308)
  • Archbishop Henry II of Virneburg (d. 1332)

    • Deaths

  • March 1 – Gruffyd ap Llywelyn, eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
  • April 2 – Henrik Harpestræng, Danish botanical and medical author
  • December 5 – Joan, Countess of Flanders and Hainault(b. 1199 or 1200)
  • date unknown
  • Eleanor of Castile, daughter of king Alfonso VIII and Eleonore Plantagenet
  • Witco de Perchyc, Bohemian noble (b. 1177)

    • References

    1244 Wikipedia
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