1247

Events

* Shams ad-Din disappears, resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance.
* Romford, London, England is chartered as a market town.
* Bedlam becomes part of London.
* The Thuringian War of Succession begins.
* Qin Jiushao publishes the original form of the Chinese remainder theorem.
* Pope Innocent IV sends missionaries to attempt to convert the Mongols.
* Egypt takes control of Jerusalem from the Kharezmians.
* Nijmegen becomes part of Gelderland.
* The Romanesque cathedral of St. Pierre is begun in Beauvais.
* Afonso III succeeds Sancho II as King of Portugal.
* Saint Louis massacres the last remaining Catharists at Montségur.
* Song Ci publishes the Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified, a book considered to be the first monographic work on forensic medicine.

Births

* Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (d. 1271)
* Angelo da Clareno, founder of Fraticelli (d. 1337)
* Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (d. 1255)
* John II, Count of Hainaut (d. 1304)
* Rashid al-Din, Persian writer and historian (approximate date) (d. 1318)
* Zhang Sanfeng, Chinese Taoist priest
* Giles of Rome, Roman archbishop and philosopher

Deaths

* February 16 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
* William de Ferrers

* December 24 - Robin Hood