1237

This page relates to the year 1237 Calendrier Julien.

Events

In spring, Batu overcomes the Kiptchak which join. Only the khan Batchman resists longer, but overcome, it is cut into two on order of Mongke.
Winter: The Mongols of Batu go against the divided Russian principalities.

16 - December 21st: The Mongols devastate Riazan. Its population is exterminated and the burnt city. The prince of Riazan Youri Ingvarevitch finds death under the walls of the city.

Forty thousand Coumans (Polovtses or Kiptchak), people of pastors Turkish driven out of bottom the Danube by the Mongolian , present to the Eastern borders Hungary. The king Béla IV agrees to accommodate them and establishes them in the marshy zone between the the Tisza and the the Danube. He thus hopes to have at his disposal of the troops against oligarchy peerage-book.

April 2nd: Thomas II of Piedmont becomes count of Flandres by his marriage with Jeanne of Flanders.
August 14th: The Aragon board gain the Bataille of Puig Cebolla which opens to them the road of Valence.
November 27th: Frederic II overcomes the lombardes cities with Cortenuova. He affirms his will to subject them to mercy and to install his capital with Rome. Gregoire IX makes alliance with the Ligue lombarde and excommunicates again Frederic (1239).

Second crusade of Swedish in Finland.
Foundation of Elbląg in Poland.
Fusion of the orders of the teutonic Knights and the Knights carry-swords. The Livonie passes under their domination (end in 1561).
the Germans occupy Dantzig.
Stettin, occupied by the Germans, receives the German right.

Vienna émancipe of the authority of the duke of Austria and becomes imperial city.
Austria is divided into Low-Austria, around Vienna, ducal residence, and in High-Austria, with Linz for capital. The emperor Frederic II conceives the project to create a kingdom of Austria for his family which would have joined together the duchies of Austria, of Styrie and of Carniole. The project fails.
Ouverture of the road of the Saint-Gothard, shortest enters the Germany and the Italy, by the construction of a suspended bridge.

Jeanne of Toulouse wife Alphonse of Poitiers.
Pierre Mauclerc, become in 1213, after its marriage with Alix de Thouars, “Baillistre” of the duchy of Brittany, i.e. to some extent duke of Brittany, leaves the duchy of Brittany to his/her son Jean I {{er}} the Russet-red with its majority.
Treated of York: a clear border is established between the Scotland and the England.
Raymond VII of Toulouse obtains the suspension of the Inquisition in its States for four years.
many Cathare S is burned in the North of the France.

Alexandre of Haul, after its studies with Paris, enters the order of the Franciscain S and becomes university lecturer in Philosophie and Théologie with Paris.
Composition of songs epic in Iceland.
Collection of 2.600 formulas of drugs by the Arab Ibn Baïtar.

January 24th: Barthelemy de Roye, Large chambrier of France under Philippe II Auguste. (° v. 1170).
March 21st: Jean de Brienne, king de Jérusalem and Latin emperor of Constantinople. (° 1148).

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