1205

Anno Domini 1205, 601-602 AH

• Spanish clergyman and logician Peter of Spain.
• Batu, Temujin's grandson, future Khan of the Golden Horde.

• Enrico Dandolo, doge of Venice, couldn't take it with him.
• Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury. Stephen Langton succeeds, even if King John will not allow him into England.
• (approx). French composer Perotinus Magnus.
• Mongol chieftain Jamugha, Temujin's last rival.
• Count Baldwin IX of Flanders, for a while Latin Emperor Baldwin I, in Kaloyan's dungeons.  His brother Henry succeeds to all titles.
• 23-year-old Francis of Assisi, hearing of Count Walter Brienne's victories in the south of Italy, travels south to join in the battle, and perhaps become a knight. But after a vision in a Spoleto chapel, Francis decides that war is a bad thing, and heads for home.
• Amaury II, king of Cyprus and Jerusalem. Marie de Montferrat succeeds him; her brother Benedict de Montferrat is busy conquering Athens.
• Hungarian king Ladislas III; Andras II succeeds him.

• Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic play Parzival appears about this time.  Someone also translates the story of Sigurd out of the Volsungasaga about this time; this becomes the Nieblungenlied.
• Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, prince of Gwynedd, marries King John's illegitimate daughter Joan.
• Leszek I Bialy comes out on top of the struggle with Wladislaw III for control of Cracow.
• Hugh de Lacy drives John de Courcy out of Ulster, becoming its earl.
• Balkh falls to the Shah of Khwarizm.
• Mohammed Ghori wipes out the Punjabi Khokar tribe.
• Temujin leads his army in an invasion of the kingdom of Xi Xia.
• The Latins attempt to consolidate their hold over the empire they created in the ruins of the Byzantine Empire.  But when they attempt to beseige Adrianople, they find that Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan already holds it.  The Bulgarian forces (aided by Cuman (Kipchak, Polovtsy) reinforcements) decimate the Latin army; Baldwin I is taken prisoner.

1204 - 1205 - 1206

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