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<catset>Category="1217"</catset><right><p><table cellpadding=3 style="margin-left: 15px;"><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b>Years:</b></small><br><a href="1214">1214</a> <a href="1215">1215</a> <a href="1216">1216</a> - 1217 - <a href="1218">1218</a> <a href="1219">1219</a> <a href="1220">1220</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b><a href="List of decades">Decades</a>:</b></small><br><a href="1180s">1180s</a> <a href="1190s">1190s</a> <a href="1200s">1200s</a> - <b><a href="1210s">1210s</a></b> - <a href="1220s">1220s</a> <a href="1230s">1230s</a> <a href="1240s">1240s</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center><small><b><a href="Centuries">Centuries</a>:</b></small><br><a href="12th century">12th century</a> - <b><a href="13th century">13th century</a></b> - <a href="14th century">14th century</a></td></tr></table><p></right><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Events</h2><ul> <li> <a href="April 9">April 9</a> - <a href="Peter of Courtenay">Peter of Courtenay</a> crowned emperor of the <a href="Latin Empire">Latin Empire</a> of <a href="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> at <a href="Rome">Rome</a>, by <a href="Pope Honorius III">Pope Honorius III</a> <li> <a href="May 20">May 20</a> - <a href="First Barons' War">First Barons' War</a>, royalist victory at <a href="Lincoln, Lincolnshire">Lincoln</a>. <li> <a href="August 24">August 24</a> - <a href="First Barons' War">First Barons' War</a>, Battle of Sandwich between English and French soldiers in the English Channel - mercenary <a href="Eustace the Monk">Eustace the Monk</a> working for the French side, is captured and beheaded <li> <a href="September 11">September 11</a> - <a href="Treaty of Lambeth">Treaty of Lambeth</a> ends <a href="First Barons' War">First Barons' War</a>. <li> Kingdom of <a href="Serbia">Serbia</a> founded <li> <a href="Fifth Crusade">Fifth Crusade</a> begins with a failed Christian attack to Egypt <li> <a href="Genghis Khan">Genghis Khan</a> destroys <a href="Kara-Khitan Khanate">Kara-Khitai</a> <li> <a href="Lembitu of Lehola">Lembitu of Lehola</a> attempts to unify all of <a href="Estonia">Estonia</a> by assembling an army of 6000 Estonian men from different provincial counties. </ul><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Births</h2><ul> <li> <a href="John I, Duke of Brittany">John I, Duke of Brittany</a> (died <a href="1286">1286</a>) <li> <a href="Baldwin II of Constantinople">Baldwin</a>, Latin Emperor of Constantinople (died <a href="1273">1273</a>) <li> <a href="Henry I of Cyprus">Henry I of Cyprus</a> <li> <a href="Eleanor of Provence">Eleanor of Provence</a>, Queen of <a href="Henry III of England">Henry III of England</a> (died <a href="1291">1291</a>) <li> <a href="Hulagu Khan">Hulagu Khan</a>, Mongol ruler of Persia (died <a href="1265">1265</a>) <li> <a href="Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury">Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury</a> (died <a href="1270">1270</a>) </ul><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Deaths</h2><ul> <li> <a href="August 24">August 24</a> - <a href="Eustace the Monk">Eustace the Monk</a>, French mercenary and pirate <li> <a href="Hermann I">Hermann I</a>, Landgrave of Thuringia <li> <a href="Inge II of Norway">Inge II of Norway</a> (born <a href="1185">1185</a>) <li> <a href="Lembitu of Lehola">Lembitu of Lehola</a>, Estonian resistance leader </ul>