The Crusader States around 1240-1241. Map credit: Ziegelbrenner 

In the year 1239, Pereyaslavl in Kievan Rus’ is sacked by the Mongols (Mar), the Hungarian king Béla IV allows some 40,000 Cumans (pagan nomads fleeing the Mongols) to settle in Hungary after their leader has promised to convert to Christianity (autumn), a Crusader force under King Theobald I of Navarre arrives at Acre where plans are made to prepare an expedition against the Ayyubids in Egypt (Sep 1) the Kievan Rus’ town Chernigov is attacked and pillaged by the Mongols (Oct 18), the Crusader army led by Henry of Bar is defeated by the Egyptians near Gaza (Nov 13) – and all these fine people were born:

1239-xxxx Balian of Arsuf* Cypriot nobleman (House of Ibelin)/Constable of Jerusalem – (1277/c. 38)
1239-xxxx John II, Duke of Brittany* English nobleman/brother-in-law of Edward I - (1305/66)
1239-xxxx Robert de Ferrers* English nobleman – Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England (1279/c. 40)

1239-0617/18 Edward I of England* son of Henry III – Palace of Westminster, London, England (1307/68)
1239-1217 Kujō Yoritsugu* 九条 頼嗣  the fifth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate/member of the Fujiwara clan (1256/16)

Updated 12.7.2023
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