1201

This page relates to the year 1201 Calendrier Julien.

Events

January: Sverri, king of Norway, demolishes the to baglir , in favor of the bishops, with Tönsberg. He becomes only king de Norvège (fine in 1202). End of the period of anarchy in Norway (1030 -1201).
May 30th: Thibaud IV, count of Champagne (fine in 1253). Regency of his/her White mother of Navarre. The Champagne is put under the supervision of the king of France.
July: The pope Innocent III legitimates Philippe Hurepel de Clermont, wire of Philippe II Auguste, king de France, and of Agnès de Méranie.
November 7th: Guillaume III of Ponthieu, ninth count de Ponthieu, married to the sister of the King de France Philippe II Auguste, Alix, grants to Ponthoile a charter guaranteeing communal freedoms, inspired by the charter of Abbeville of 1184, which was used as model with the development of almost all the other charters of the Ponthieu. (Text of the charter)
October: Alexis III (Byzantine emperor) grants new advantages to Génois.

the canon Albert de Buxhövden, nephew of the archbishop of Bremen, appointed bishop of Livonie, fixes its seat at Rīga, counter of Lübeck, port which becomes the center of the policy of christianization and germanisation of the area.
Knut VI of Denmark conquers the Mecklembourg, the Livonie, the Holstein, Lübeck (1201) and Hamburg (1202).

March 21st: Absalon, archbishop of Lund.
March 22nd: Iaroslav d' Opole
May 24th: Thibaut III, count de Champagne.
July 20th: Agnes de Méranie, third wife of the king de France Philippe Auguste, died of sorrow to Senlis
September 5th: Constancy of Brittany.
7 - December 8th: Boleslas Ier Length, duke of Silesia.

nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

Imadeddin Al-Asfahani (born in 1125), author of many works of history and literature, of which a poetic anthology.

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