- 1230
Events
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March 9 -Bulgaria ntsar Ivan Asen II defeatsTheodore of Epirus near the village ofKlokotnitsa .
*September 24 - TheKingdom of Leon unites with theKingdom of Castile under Ferdinand III.
* TheTeutonic Knights are invited intoPrussia to forcibly convert thePrussians and Yatvags toChristianity .
* The "Carmina Burana " poetry and song collection is created (approximate date).
*Sundiata starts to rule inMali (approximate date).
* In the West African village ofSiby ,Sundiata Keita , founder of theMali Empire , forces theMalinké s to bind themselves to each other by oath.Births
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Eudes of Burgundy (d.1266 )
*Hu Sansheng , Chinese historian (d.1302 )Deaths
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May 2 -William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny (hanged)
*July 28 - DukeLeopold VI of Austria (b.1176 )
*September 23 -Alfonso IX of Leon (b.1171 )
*October 25 -Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford , English soldier (b.1180 )
*December 15 -Otakar I of Bohemia
*December 23 -Berengaria of Navarre , queen ofRichard I of England
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