Explore 45 historical events from 1270–1279.
Henry the Fat was King of Navarre and Count of Champagne and Brie from 1270 until his death.
Henry I of Navarre, Count of Champagne and Brie and King of Navarre
Robert de Sorbon was a French theologian, the chaplain of Louis IX of France, and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris.
Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and educator, founded the College of Sorbonne (born 1201)
Robert I, popularly known as Robert the Bruce, was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against Englan…
Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (died 1329)
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī, also known as Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī or simply as (al-)Tusi, was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and the…
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (born 1201)
Lord Edward's Crusade, sometimes called the Ninth Crusade, was a military expedition to the Holy Land under the command of Edward Longshanks, later king of England, in 1271–1272. I…
Shortly after his return from the Ninth Crusade, Edward I (pictured) was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey,…
Ewostatewos was an Ethiopian religious leader of the Orthodox Tewahedo during the early period of the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopian Empire. He was a forceful advocate for the obse…
Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (died 1352)
Zita, also known as Sitha or Citha, is an Italian saint, the patroness saint of maids and domestic servants. She is often appealed to in order to help find lost keys.
Zita, Italian saint (born 1212)
Stephen V of Hungary was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1270 and 1272, and Duke of Styria from 1258 to 1260. He was the oldest son of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskari…
Stephen V of Hungary (born 1239)
Richard Middleton was an English ecclesiastic and Lord Chancellor of England.
Richard Middleton, English Lord Chancellor
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, 2nd Lord of Connaught was an Irish peer from the House of Burgh.
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (born 1220)
Alphonse was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse from 1249. As count of Toulouse, he also governed the Marquisate of Provence.
Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (born 1220)
Joan was Countess of Toulouse from 1249 until her death. She was the only child of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse by his first wife Sancha of Aragon.
Joan, Countess of Toulouse (born 1220)
Yekuno Amlak ; throne name Tesfa Iyasus was Emperor of Ethiopia, from 1270 to 1285, and the founder of the Solomonic dynasty, which lasted until 1974. He was a ruler from Bete Amha…
Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe…
Philip III, called the Bold, was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade. Philip, who was accompanying him, …
Philip III, although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX,…
Béla IV was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258. As the oldest son of King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a gr…
Béla IV of Hungary (born 1206)
Stephen (I) Báncsa was the first Hungarian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Prior to that, he served as Bishop of Vác from 1240 or 1241 to 1243, then Archbishop of Esztergom …
Stephen Báncsa, Hungarian cardinal (born c. 1205)
Boniface of Savoy was a medieval Bishop of Belley in Savoy and Archbishop of Canterbury in England. He was the son of Thomas, Count of Savoy, and owed his initial ecclesiastical po…
Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians, is the sole ki…
Louis IX of France (born 1214)
Alfonso of Brienne, called Alphonse d'Acre, was the son of John of Brienne and Berengaria of León, born in Acre.
Alphonso of Brienne (born c. 1225)
Philip III, called the Bold, was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade. Philip, who was accompanying him, …
Philip III became King of France following the death of his father Louis IX during the Eighth Crusade.
Yekuno Amlak ; throne name Tesfa Iyasus was Emperor of Ethiopia, from 1270 to 1285, and the founder of the Solomonic dynasty, which lasted until 1974. He was a ruler from Bete Amha…
Yekuno Amlak deposed the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia, beginning the reign of the…