1246

Year 1246 (MCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

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Year 1246 Overview

The year 1246 (MCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events by Place

Europe

  • February 28 – The Siege of Jaén: Castilian forces, led by King Ferdinand III (the Saint), capture the city from the Andalucians. Sultan Muhammad I hands the city over and accepts Ferdinand’s overlordship in exchange for a 20-year truce, making the Emirate of Granada a vassal state of the Kingdom of Castile.
  • May 22 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king in Germany, opposing Conrad IV and his father, the excommunicated emperor Frederick II.
  • June 15 – Battle of the Leitha River: Hungarian forces, under King Béla IV, defeat Duke Frederick II (the Quarrelsome), resulting in Frederick’s death and the dissolution of the House of Babenberg.
  • November – Michael II Asen ascends to the throne of the Bulgarian Empire after the death of his brother Kaliman I. He confirms the reconquest of Bulgarian territories from John III (Doukas Vatatzes), the Byzantine ruler of the Empire of Nicaea.

Mongol Empire

  • August 24 – Güyük Khan, the eldest son of Ögedei Khan, is enthroned as the 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. He reverses several edicts of his mother, Töregene Khatun, and orders the Mongol viceroy of Persia to prepare an attack on Baghdad.
  • September 30 – Yaroslav II is poisoned on the orders of Töregene Khatun after being summoned to Karakorum.

Levant

  • Alice of Champagne, queen and regent of Jerusalem, dies. Her son, Henry I of Cyprus (the Fat), succeeds her and appoints Balian III of Beirut as his bailli.
  • October 2 – Damascus falls to the Ayyubid vizier Mu’in al-Din Hasan ibn al-Shaykh after a four-month siege.

Asia

  • February 16 – Emperor Go-Saga abdicates the throne in favor of his 3-year-old son, Go-Fukakusa, the 89th Emperor of Japan.

Significant Topics

Arts

Robert Grosseteste translates Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics from Greek into Latin, marking a significant moment in the rediscovery of Aristotle by Medieval Europe.

Religion

  • Beaulieu Abbey in England is dedicated in the presence of King Henry III, Queen Eleanor, and 7-year-old Prince Edward.
  • Katedralskolan is established beside Uppsala Cathedral as a seminary for clergy.

Notable Births

  • March 8 – Nikkō Shōnin, Japanese religious leader (d. 1333)
  • March 24 – Henry Bate of Mechelen, Brabantian philosopher
  • September 14 – John FitzAlan, English nobleman (d. 1272)
  • Angelo da Furci, Italian priest and orator (d. 1327)
  • Drakpa Odzer, Tibetan Imperial Preceptor (d. 1303)
  • Jutta of Denmark, Danish princess and abbess

Notable Deaths

  • February 25 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Welsh prince (b. 1212)
  • April 15 – Peter González (Telmo), Castilian priest (b. 1190)
  • June 15 – Frederick II, duke of Austria and Styria (b. 1211)
  • September 30 – Yaroslav II, Kievan Grand Prince (b. 1191)
  • November 3 – Robert de Bingham, bishop of Salisbury