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[edit] Events

• August 24 – John of England weds 13 year old Isabella of Angoulême at Bordeaux.
• The University of Paris receives its charter from Philip II of France.
• The Mongols defeat Northern China.
• Buddhism declines in India (approximate date).
• Saint Elisabeth of Hungary d.1207–1231
• The Iroquois invade modern-day Ohio from the north.

[edit] Births

• Al-Abhari, Persian philosopher and mathematician (d. 1265)
• Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman and poet (d. 1278)
• Adam Marsh, English Franciscan (approximate date; d. 1259)
• John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry (d. 1240)
• Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler (approximate date; d. 1259)
• Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (d. 1270)
• January 19—Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen (d. 1253)
• 7 July- Elisabeth of Hungary Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia (d.1207)
• Sant Dnyaneshwar, Indian Marathi Saint, philosopher and poet (1275–1296)
• Mindaugas, Great king of Lithuania (1236–1253)

[edit] Maps of 1200 AD

Map of major states in 1200 before the rise of the Mongols.

Map of the Eastern Hemisphere circa 1200

[edit] Deaths

• Count Joscelin III of Edessa
• April 23—Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher (b. 1130)
• December—Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• Beatritz de Dia (approximate date)
• Ibn al-Razzaz al-Raziri, Arabian scientist (approximate date)