1247

Events

• Shams ad-Din disappearsresulting in Jalal UddinRumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance.
• Romford , London , England is chartered as a market town.
• Bedlam becomes part of London.
• Thuringian War of Succession begins.
• Ch'in Chiu-Shao publishes the original form of the Chinese remainder theorem .
• Pope Innocent IV sends missionaries to attempt to convert the Mongols .
• Egypt takes control of Jerusalem fromthe Kharezmians .
• Nijmegen becomes part of Gelderland .
• The Romanesque cathedral ofSt. Pierre is begun in Beauvais .
• Afonso III succeeds Sancho II as King of Portugal .
• Saint Louis massacres the last remaining Catharists at Montségur .

Births

• Chang San Feng
• Hugh of Lincoln , supposed victim of blood libel
• Angelo da Clareno , founder of a group of Fraticelli
• Isabelled'Aragon , wife of Philip III of France
• Possible birthdate of Zhang Sanfeng , a semi-mythical Taoist master

Deaths

• William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby
• Heinrich Raspe , Landgrave of Thuringia

Monarchs/Presidents

• Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276 )
• Castile - Ferdinand III , the Saint King of Castile and Leon (reigned from 1217 to 1252 )