1201

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Heads of states

Events

★ The town of Riga is chartered as a city by Bishop Albert, who landed on the site of the town with 1500 crusaders earlier that year.

★ Boniface of Montferrat is elected leader of the Fourth Crusade, after the death of Theobald III of Champagne.

★ Innocent III supports Otto IV as Holy Roman Emperor, against Philip of Swabia.

★ The Fourth Crusade Siege of Zadar.

Births

★ August 9 — Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)

★ October 9 — Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)

★ May 30 — Theobald IV of Champagne, Count of Champagne (d. 1253)

★ Ladislaus III of Hungary, King of Hungary (d. 1205)

★ Danylo King of Rus, 1st king of Halych-Volhynia (d. 1264)

★ Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)

Deaths

★ March 21 — Absalon, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1128)

★ May 24 — Theobald III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179)

★ July 29 — Agnes of Merania, queen of France and wife of king Philip II of France

★ September 5 — Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)

★ Bohemund III of Antioch (b. 1144)

★ Joachim of Fiore, founder of monastic order of San Giovanni (born 1135)

Heads of states

★ England — John I, King of England (reigned 1199–1216)

★ France — Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned 1180–1223)

★ Pope — Innocent III (pope 1198–1216)