1217

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1180s  1190s  1200s  – 1210s –  1220s  1230s  1240s
Years:	1214 1215 1216 – 1217 – 1218 1219 1220

1217 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1217 in poetry

1217 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1217 MCCXVII
Ab urbe condita	1970
Armenian calendar	666 ԹՎ ՈԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	5967
Bengali calendar	624
Berber calendar	2167
English Regnal year	1 Hen. 3 – 2 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1761
Burmese calendar	579
Byzantine calendar	6725–6726
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3913 or 3853     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3914 or 3854
Coptic calendar	933–934
Discordian calendar	2383
Ethiopian calendar	1209–1210
Hebrew calendar	4977–4978
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1273–1274
- Shaka Samvat	1139–1140
- Kali Yuga	4318–4319
Holocene calendar	11217
Igbo calendar	217–218
Iranian calendar	595–596
Islamic calendar	613–614
Japanese calendar	Kenpō 5 (建保５年)
Julian calendar	1217 MCCXVII
Korean calendar	3550
Minguo calendar	695 before ROC 民前695年
Thai solar calendar	1759–1760

Year 1217 (MCCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Mukhali is back in Genghis Khan's camp in Mongolia and receives the hereditary title of prince, a golden seal, and a white standard with 9 tails and a black crescent in the middle. He is appointed commander in chief of operations in North China.
• The Fifth Crusade reaches the Holy Land

Europe

• April 9 – Peter II of Courtenay is crowned emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople at Rome, by Pope Honorius III.
• May 20 – First Barons' War in England: Occupying French forces are defeated at the Battle of Lincoln by English royal troops led by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke^[1] and survivors forced to flee south.
• June 6 – King Henry I of Castile dies aged thirteen from the fall of a roof tile in Palencia, an event which his regent, Álvaro Núñez de Lara, attempts to conceal. Henry's sister Berengaria succeeds to the throne.
• June – Haakon Haakonsson becomes King Haakon IV of Norway following the death of Inge II and largely ends the civil war era in Norway, reigning until 1263.
• August 24 – First Barons' War: In the Battle of Sandwich in the English Channel, English forces destroy the French and the French mercenary Eustace the Monk is captured and beheaded.
• August 31 – Ferdinand becomes King of Castile on abdication of his mother Berengaria.
• September 12 – First Barons' War in England ended by the Treaty of Kingston upon Thames: French and Scots are to leave England, and an amnesty is granted to rebels.^[1]
• September 20 – Treaty of Lambeth signed ratifying the Treaty of Kingston.
• September 21 – Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword and allied Livs and Letts defeat the Estonian army in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day and kill their leader Lembitu.
• November – In the Kingdom of Castile, former regent Álvaro Núñez de Lara is captured and forced to relinquish all his castles.^[2]
• Stefan Nemanjić is elevated to be first King of the Serbian lands by Pope Honorius III and crowned by Stefan's brother, Archimandrite Sava, in Žiča.
• Alcácer do Sal is reconquered by the troops of King Afonso II of Portugal.^[3]
• A decree made in England establishes that only Englishman can be clergy of Ireland.

Births

• John I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1286)
• Baldwin, Latin Emperor of Constantinople (d. 1273)
• Henry I of Cyprus
• Eleanor of Provence, Queen of Henry III of England (d. 1291)
• Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler of Persia (d. 1265)
• Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1270)
• Izz al-Din ibn Shaddad, Arab historian (d. 1285)

Deaths

• April 23 – King Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)
• April 25 – Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia
• June 6 – King Henry I of Castile (b. 1204)
• August 24 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (b. c.1170)
• September 10 – William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English nobleman
• September 21 – Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian resistance leader and Caupo of Turaida, Livonian leader (at the Battle of St. Matthew's Day)
• October 14 – Isabel of Gloucester, wife of King John of England (b. c.1173)
• Maria Comnena, wife of Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. c.1154) (latest possible date of death)
• Lovers of Teruel: Juan Martinez (aka Diego Marcilla) and Isabel Segura (alleged date)

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 77–79. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia. The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–671. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
3. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.