1201

Years: 1198 1199 1200 - 1201 - 1202 1203 1204

Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s - 1200s - 1210s 1220s 1230s

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

Events

• The Town of Riga was chartered as a City.
• Boniface of Montferrat is elected leader of the Fourth Crusade, after the death of Theobald III of Champagne.
• Innocent III supports Otto IV as Holy Roman Emperor, against Philip of Swabia.
• The Fourth Crusade besieges Zara.
• July 5 - Major Earthquake kills 1.1 million people in upper Egypt and Syria.

Births

• August 9 - Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
• October 9 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (died 1274)
• Theobald IV of Champagne (died 1252)
• Ladislaus III of Hungary (died 1205)
• Mindowhowna, Queen of Galicia (died 1264)
• Danylo King of Rus (died 1264)
• Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (died 1221)

Deaths

• March 21 - Absalon, Danish archbishop
• July 29 - Agnes of Meran, queen of Philip II of France
• September 5 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (born 1161)
• Bohemund III of Antioch (born 1144)
• Theobald III of Champagne
• Joachim of Fiore, founder of monastic order of San Giovanni (born 1135)

Heads of states

• England - John I, King of England (reigned 1199 - 1216).
• France - Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223).
• Pope - Innocent III (pope from 1198 to 1216)