1269 CE

Ode de Pougy, French Abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains, and several associates who assist her, are excommunicated. Battle of Colle Val d'Elsa: Guelph forces (2,200 men) led by King Charles I of Anjou defeat the Ghibellines at Tuscany. After the battle, the Guelphs drive out their adversaries at Colle di Val d'Elsa, destroying their houses, and confiscating their possessions. King Louis IX of France ("the Saint") orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. He also confiscates goods from the Jewish population to fund the Eighth Crusade.

In the 1260s, the 13th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • King Ottokar II of Bohemia inherits Carinthia and part of Carniola, making him the most powerful German prince within the Holy Roman Empire; the empire lacking an emperor during the ongoing “Great Interregnum”.source

Conflict & Security

  • June 16 – Battle of Colle Val d'Elsa: Guelph forces (2,200 men) led by King Charles I of Anjou defeat the Ghibellines at Tuscany. After the battle, the Guelphs drive out their adversaries at Colle di Val d'Elsa, destroying their houses, and confiscating their possessions.source
  • September 8 – Berber forces of the Marinid Sultanate under Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq complete the conquest of Morocco and capture Marrakesh after a long siege, effectively ending the Almohad Caliphate. The last Almohad ruler, Idris al-Wathiq (or Abu Dabbus), is assassinated by a slave. The Marinids become the new masters of the western Maghreb and Abu Yusuf Yaqub takes up the title of "Prince of the Muslims".source
  • Prince Edward (the Lord Edward) of England obtains the right to levy a twentieth of the value of the Church's wealth to finance the Ninth Crusade. That sum turns out to be insufficient, and Edward has to borrow to reach his target.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • September – An Aragonese contingent under King James I ("the Conqueror") sails from Barcelona to the Holy Land but is caught in a storm and badly damaged. One squadron reaches Acre, but later returns to Catalonia.source

Religion & Belief

  • March – Ode de Pougy, French Abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains, and several associates who assist her, are excommunicated.source
  • June 19 – King Louis IX of France ("the Saint") orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. He also confiscates goods from the Jewish population to fund the Eighth Crusade.source
  • Approximate date – Opizzo Fieschi, Latin patriarch of Antioch, is exiled, being displaced because of the East–West Schism of 1054.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • John I Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, begins the construction of Blair Castle in Scotland.source

Science & Discovery

  • Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, French mathematician and writer, performs a series of experiments with magnetic poles and proposes that a machine can be run forever in perpetual motion using the properties of magnets.source

Crime & Justice

Births

  • February 9 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria, German nobleman, knight and regent (died 1296)source
  • June 18 – Eleanor of England, English princess (died 1298)source
  • July 10 – Emperor Duanzong (or Zhao Shi) of China (died 1278)source
  • September 5 – Agnes of Bohemia, Duchess of Austria (died 1296)source
  • November – Philip of Artois, French nobleman and knight (died 1298)source
  • Huang Gongwang (or Lu Jian), Chinese painter (died 1354)source
  • Alexander of San Elpidio, Italian friar and bishop (died 1326)source
  • Nichizō, Japanese Buddhist monk and disciple (died 1342)source
  • Frederick Tuta, German nobleman and regent (died 1291)source

Deaths

  • April – Geoffrey of Sergines, French nobleman and knight (born 1205)source
  • July 7 – Saionji Saneuji, Japanese poet and writer (born 1194)source
  • October 1 – Giordano Pironti, Italian aristocrat and cardinalsource
  • October 27 – Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia, German nobleman and knight (born 1220)source
  • Idris al-Wathiq (or Abu Dabbus), Almohad ruler (caliph)source
  • John Lestrange, English landowner, knight and border lord (born 1194)source
  • Vasylko Romanovych, Grand Prince of Kiev (born 1203)source
  • William (III) de Beauchamp, English nobleman (born 1215)source
  • Gregorio di Montelongo, Italian bishop of Tripoli (born 1200)source
  • Albin of Brechin (or Albinus), Scottish prelate and bishopsource
  • Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari, Moorish poet and writer (born 1212)source
  • Oberto Pallavicino, Italian nobleman (signore) and field captain (born 1197)source
  • Guigues VII, French ruler (dauphin) of Viennois (born 1225)source
  • Constance of Aragon, Lady of Villena, Spanish princess (infanta) (born 1239)source
  • Donnchadh Cime Mág Samhradháin, chief of the McGovern Clan from 1258 until his murder in 1269Irelandsource
  • Íomhaor mac Tighearnán Mág Tighearnán, chief of the McKiernan Clan from 1258 until his death in 1269Irelandsource