Years 1200

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Events

At the beginning of XIIIe century, Gudhmundr Arason, bishop of Hólar (Iceland), is driven out of its seat and is obliged to require the assistance of the archbishop of Nidarós, then is made prisoner on his return by a notable rebel. He sets out again once again in exile and cannot reinstall itself in Iceland.
Philippe Auguste declares Jean without Ground félon and confiscates its continental possessions: Aquitanian Normandy, Maine, Anjou, (between the Loire and the Dordogne), beginning of the territorial power capétienne.

Art & culture

At the beginning of the 13th century, the khan of the Naïman invites at its court the scientist Ouïgour Touched-tonga which teaches the writing to them.
Account of the Greenlanders , written about 1200.
the Lay of Tydorel , Lay anonymous written at the end of the XIe or at the beginning of the XIIe century.
the archbishop of Lund Anders Sunesen writes a philosophical treaty in worms, counterpart of the Of will natura rerum of Lucrèce, to initiate the readers with the thought scholastic.
About 1200, with the Japan: Hôjôki (Notes of the hut of ten square feet).

Economy & company

the Slavic principle of the distribution of the capacity between all the family members reigning, the crown returning to oldest, while the others divide in prerogative the grounds of the Moravie, disappears in Bohemia in 1198. The administration of the territory is entrusted to counts ( comes , župan ) named by the king and to which, as from the 13th century, come to associate “royal officers” to assist them.
the political power belongs not only to the king, but also to the nation, i.e. with the privileged classes which are described by the diet ( Landstag ), made up representatives of the orders ( Stände ) four: The order of the prelates ( Prälatenstand ) which relates to only the high clergy (the archbishop of Prague, suffragan D ' Olomouc and of Litomerice, abbots and priors of collegial); the order of the lords ( Herrenstand ), formed of a score of big families Czech, German or foreign related to the dynasty and which base their power on the great land property; the made up minor nobility gentlemen and knights ( Ritterstand ), people of war to the head of small fields; the order of the cities managing themselves. Until 1618, its orders - other than the isolated Prälatenstand at the time of the wars hussites) - have the privilege of the election of the king and the nomination of the large officers.
the diet meets each year with the Hradčany (the oldest castle of Prague) in November or in December. It is chaired by royal police chiefs and the sovereign appears there only exceptionally as from the 14th century. It regulates the financial problems (taxes), soldiers (raised troops), economic (maintenance of the transportation routes) or monk.

Significant characters

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Simple: 1200s

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