Crusades Timeline: 1221-1229

Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.

1095-10991100-11201121-11441145-11631164-11871188-11971198-1214
1215-12201221-12291230-12481249-12571258-12691270-1291
Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1221 Feb George IV of Georgia defeated near Tiflis by the Mongols
Mar 25 Robert de Courtenay crowned as Latin Emperor of Constantinople
Aug First Dominicans arrive in England
Aug 6 St. Dominic dies
St. Bonaventura born
Alfonso X born
1222 Aug Death of Raymond VI of Toulouse; succeeded by his son Raymond VII
Alexander II of Scotland drives the Vikings out of Argyll
Death of Theodore Lascaris of Nicaea; succeeded by John III Ducas Vatatzes
Padua University founded
Younger Edda, by Snorri Sturlason
Andrew of Hungary issues Golden Bull for Hungary
1223 Mar 25 Death of Afonso II the Fat of Portugal; succeeded by his son Sancho II
May 20 Pope Honorius taxes French clergy for the Albigensian Crusade
Jul 14 Death of Philip II; succeeded by his son Louis VIII
Death of John of Sweden; succeeded by Eric XI, son of Eric X
Death of George IV of Georgia; succeeded by his sister Rusadan
1224 Feb Amaury of Montfort cedes his conquests from the Albigensian Crusade to King Louis VIII
May 5 Louis VIII declares war on Henry III
Jun 5 Frederick II founds the University of Naples
Aug St. Francis receives the stigmata
Aug 14 Henry III suppresses the revolt of Fawkes de Breauté
Andrew II grants autonomy to German settlers in Transylvania
1225 Feb 11 Magna Carta is reissued by Henry III
Feb 15 Pope Honorius condemns Raymond VII of Toulouse as a heretic
Nov 7 Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne, Frederick's vice-regent in Germany, is murdered
Nov 9 Frederick II marries Queen Yolanda, daughter of John of Brienne, thus becoming King of Jerusalem
John Ducas defeats Latins at Poimanenon
Ferdinand III of Castile takes Andujar from the Moors
Ecke von Repkowe, the Sachsenspiegel, a Latin work on Saxon customs; the oldest legal treatise in Germany
Visby Cathedral, Gothland
Francis of Assisi, Il Cantico di Frate Sole (Canticle of Brother Sun), the oldest piece of Italian poetry
Snorri Sturlason, Heimskringla
The "Lille" Book of Stories, the earliest piece of French prose fiction
1226 Jan 30 Louis VIII takes over the Albigensian Crusade
Mar 6 Second Lombard League forms
Oct 3 Death of St. Francis (45)
Nov 8 Louis VIII dies; succeeded by his son Louis IX; Blanche of Castile is regent
Nov 27 First league of Rhenish towns is defeated by Frederick
Ezzelino da Romana becomes podestá of Verona
Prince Konrad of Masovia grants Chelmo to the Teutonic Knights, to serve as a base for their conquest of Prussia
Lübeck becomes a Free Imperial City
1227 Jan 8 Henry III declares himself to be of age
Mar 16 Treaty of Vendôme ends rebellion by Brittany
Mar 18 Death of Pope Honorius III; succeeded by Gregory IX
Jul 22 Waldemar of Denmark defeated at Bornhöved by Count Schwerin and Hansa allies
Aug 24 Death of Ghengiz Khan; his empire is divided; his grandson Batu inherits Kazakhstan and European Russia (origin of the Golden Horde)
Sep 29 Gregory excommunicates Frederick for his failure to go on crusade
Nov 11 Al-Kamil of Egypt seizes Jerusalem
Bishop Albert of Riga defeats and converts the Osilians
Toledo Cathedral begun
Henry of Latvia, History of Livonia
Birth of St. Thomas Aquinas
1228 Apr Conrad IV born
Jun 28 Frederick sails for Palestine; Gregory excommunicates him again
Jul 9 Death of Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
James of Aragon conquers the Balearics
Death of Robert of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople; succeeded by his son Baldwin II; John of Brienne is regent
Death of Stephen of Serbia
1229 Feb 18 Frederick signs treaty with al-Kamil, ending the Sixth Crusade
Mar 18 Frederick crowns himself King of Jerusalem
Apr 11 End of the Albigensian Crusade
Jun Al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Jun 10 Frederick defeats John of Brienne, who was leading a papal crusade against Sicily
Waldemar of Denmark surrenders Holstein, Mecklenburg and Pomerania in a treaty with the Count of Schwerin
Death of Bishop Albert of Riga