1269

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Year 1269 (MCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• End of the Almohad dynasty:
  • The Berber Marinid completes the conquest of Morocco, replacing the Almohad dynasty which it defeated in Marrakesh.
  • The Almohad dynasty of caliphs (not universally accepted), that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain), is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.

Europe

• June 19 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• King Otakar II of Bohemia inherits Carinthia and part of Carniola, making him the most powerful prince within the Holy Roman Empire; the empire lacking an emperor during the ongoing great interregnum, Otakar II is one of the most powerful men in Europe.
• To finance his crusade, Edward I of England obtains the right to levy a twentieth of the value of the Church’s wealth in England. That sum turns out to be insufficient and Edward has to borrow to reach his target.^[1]
• John Comyn begins the construction of Blair Castle in Scotland.

By topic

Religion

• The Catholic Patriarch of Antioch is exiled after 171 years of holding the See, being misplaced because of the East-West Schism of 1054. It, once again, falls into the possession of the Eastern Orthodox.

Science

• Pélerin de Maricourt first describes magnetic poles and remarks on the nonexistence of isolated magnetic poles.

Births

• Philip of Artois, the Lord of Conches, Nonancourt, and Domfront.
• Huang Gongwang, Chinese painter (d. 1354)
• Vedantadesika, Hindu poet and philosopher

Deaths

• September – Idris II, Almohad Caliph
• October 27 – Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (b. c.1220)
• date unknown
  • Guigues VII of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne (b. 1225)
  • Oberto Pallavicino, Italian nobleman and military commander (b. 1197)
  • Vilain I of Aulnay, Marshal of Romania and Baron of Arcadia

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