1212

'Years:' 1209 1210 1211 - '1212' - 1213 1214 1215

'Decades:' 1180s 1190s 1200s - '1210s' - 1220s 1230s 1240s

'Centuries:' 12th century - '13th century' - 14th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ July 10 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground

★ Battle of Navas de Tolosa

★ Children's crusade

★ Crusaders push the Muslims out of northern Spain

★ In Japan, Kamo no Chōmei writes the ''Hōjōki'', one of the great works of classical Japanese prose

★ Bran Castle erected by Teutonic Knights

Births

★ March 22 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (died 1234)

★ Yolande of Jerusalem (died 1228)

★ Malatesta da Verucchio, Italian condottiero, founder of the Malatesta family (died 1312)

★ Zita, patron saint of maids and domestic servants (died 1272)

Deaths

★ March 26 - King Sancho I of Portugal (born 1154)

★ April 12 - Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (born 1154)

★ October 9 - Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (born 1175)

★ November 4 - Felix of Valois, French saint (born 1127)

★ December 12 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (born 1152)

★ Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht

★ William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale,

★ Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, 5th Lord of Annandale

★ Margaret of Huntingdon, eldest daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon by his wife (born 1180)

★ Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem (born 1192)

★ Peter de Preaux, Norman knight in the service of the Angevin kings of England

★ Robert of Auxerre, French chronicler (born 1156)

★ Honen Shonin, founder of Jodo Shu, a branch of Pure Land Buddhism (born 1133)

★ Robert of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bangor