Life In Good Measure

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Data for 1230s

In the year 1230, Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats the Emperor of Thessalonica, and quickly extends his control over most of  Thrace, Macedonia, and Albania (Mar 9), (), the Teutonic Knights are invited into Prussia in order to forcibly convert the Prussians and Yatvags to Christianity, and the Sena Dynasty of Bengal falls.

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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 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