1244

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Years:	1241 1242 1243 – 1244 – 1245 1246 1247

1244 by topic

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1244 in poetry

1244 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1244 MCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	1997
Armenian calendar	693 ԹՎ ՈՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	5994
Bengali calendar	651
Berber calendar	2194
English Regnal year	28 Hen. 3 – 29 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1788
Burmese calendar	606
Byzantine calendar	6752–6753
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3940 or 3880     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3941 or 3881
Coptic calendar	960–961
Discordian calendar	2410
Ethiopian calendar	1236–1237
Hebrew calendar	5004–5005
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1300–1301
- Shaka Samvat	1166–1167
- Kali Yuga	4345–4346
Holocene calendar	11244
Igbo calendar	244–245
Iranian calendar	622–623
Islamic calendar	641–642
Japanese calendar	Kangen 2 (寛元２年)
Julian calendar	1244 MCCXLIV
Korean calendar	3577
Minguo calendar	668 before ROC 民前668年
Thai solar calendar	1786–1787

Year 1244 (MCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 16 – Following their successful 9-month siege of Montségur, French royal forces burn about 210 Cathar Perfecti and unrepentant credentes.
• The Christian Reconquista in Iberia enjoys a string of successes:
  • March 26 – By the treaty of Almirra, the king of Aragon and prince of Castile come to an agreement on the attribution of Muslim lands to still to be conquered.^[1]
  • May 22 – James I of Aragon takes the Muslim-held city of Janita after several months of siege.^[2] This success is followed by the capture of Biar later that year.^[3]
  • James I of Aragon reconquers Altea, Spain.
  • The heir prince of Castile conduct a series of military operations to support the Muslim Huddite rulers of Murcia against rebel strongholds.^[4]

• Siege and Fall of Jerusalem leading to the Seventh Crusade.
  • Sultan Malik al-Muattam razes the city walls of Jerusalem.
  • August 23 – The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
• Dogen Zenji establishes the Eiheiji temple in Japan, thus founding the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism.

Births

• June 24 – Henry I of Hesse (d. 1308)
• Archbishop Henry II of Virneburg (d. 1332)

Deaths

• March 1 – Gruffyd ap Llywelyn, eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
• December 5 – Jeanne, Countess of Flanders and Hainault(b. 1199 or 1200)
• date unknown
  • Eleanor of Castile, daughter of king Alfonso VIII and Eleonore Plantagenet
  • Witco de Perchyc, Bohemian noble (b. 1177)

References

1. de Epalza, Miguel (1999). Negotiating cultures: bilingual surrender treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror. Brill. p. 96. ISBN 90-04-11244-8.
2. de Epalza, Miguel (1999). Negotiating cultures: bilingual surrender treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror. Brill. p. 100. ISBN 90-04-11244-8.
3. de Epalza, Miguel (1999). Negotiating cultures: bilingual surrender treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror. Brill. p. 102. ISBN 90-04-11244-8.
4. de Epalza, Miguel (1999). Negotiating cultures: bilingual surrender treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror. Brill. p. 88. ISBN 90-04-11244-8.