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Year 1247 (MCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • July 2 – A document issued by king Béla IV of Hungary, granting territories to the Knights Hospitaller in the Banate of Severin and Cumania, makes an early mention of Litovoi and other Vlach/Romanian local rulers in Wallachia and Transylvania.
  • December 1 – A rebellion arises among the Muslim subjects of the Crown of Aragon in the region of Valencia. As a punishment, the king issues an order of expulsion of the Muslims from his realm leading numerous people into exile in Andalusia and North Africa in the subsequent year.
  • Shams Tabrizi disappears, resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance.
  • Romford, London, England is chartered as a market town.
  • The future Bethlem Royal Hospital, bedlam, founded in London.
  • The Thuringian War of Succession begins.
  • Qin Jiushao publishes the original form of the Chinese remainder theorem.
  • Egypt takes control of Jerusalem from the Kharezmians.
  • Nijmegen becomes part of Gelderland.
  • The Romanesque cathedral of St. Pierre is begun in Beauvais.
  • Afonso III succeeds Sancho II as King of Portugal.
  • Saint Louis massacres the last remaining Catharists at Montségur.
  • Song Ci publishes the Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified, a book considered to be the first monographic work on forensic medicine.

    • Births

  • Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (d. 1271)
  • Angelo da Clareno, founder of Fraticelli (d. 1337)
  • Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (d. 1255)
  • John II, Count of Hainaut (d. 1304)
  • Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Persian writer and historian (approximate date) (d. 1318)
  • Giles of Rome, Roman archbishop and philosopher
  • Zhang San Feng, Chinese Taoist

    • Deaths

  • February 16 – Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
  • November 18 – Robin Hood, a heroic outlaw in English folklore (b. 1160)
  • Tomoe Gozen, a late twelth century samurai warrior (b. 1157)
  • William de Ferrers (b. 1168)

    • References

    1247 Wikipedia
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