Explore 72 historical events from 1270–1279.
Elisabeth of Bavaria was Queen of Germany and Jerusalem from 1246 to 1254 by her marriage to King Conrad IV of Germany.
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (born 1227)
Zita, also known as Sitha or Citha, is an Italian saint, the patroness saint of maids and domestic servants. She is often appealed to in order to help find lost keys.
Zita, Italian saint (born 1212)
Stephen V of Hungary was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1270 and 1272, and Duke of Styria from 1258 to 1260. He was the oldest son of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskari…
Stephen V of Hungary (born 1239)
Richard Middleton was an English ecclesiastic and Lord Chancellor of England.
Richard Middleton, English Lord Chancellor
Hugh IV was Duke of Burgundy from 1218 and titular King of Thessalonica from 1266 until his death in 1272. He was the son of Odo III, Duke of Burgundy, and Alice de Vergy.
Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (born 1213)
Charles Martel of the Capetian dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.
Charles Martel of Anjou (died 1295)
The papal election that followed the death of Pope Clement IV lasted from 1 December 1268 to 1 September 1271 and was the longest in the history of the Catholic Church. This was du…
Election of pope Gregory X following the death of Clement IV three years prior.
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia was King of Bohemia (1278–1305), Duke of Cracow (1291–1305), and King of Poland (1296–1305).
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Poland (died 1305)
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, 2nd Lord of Connaught was an Irish peer from the House of Burgh.
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (born 1220)
Alphonse was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse from 1249. As count of Toulouse, he also governed the Marquisate of Provence.
Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (born 1220)
Joan was Countess of Toulouse from 1249 until her death. She was the only child of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse by his first wife Sancha of Aragon.
Joan, Countess of Toulouse (born 1220)
Yaroslav III Yaroslavich was the first Prince of Tver from 1247, and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1263 until his death in 1271. All the later princes of Tver descended from him.
Yaroslav of Tver, Russian Grand Prince (born 1230)
Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, was the politically most influential woman in Iceland in the Age of the Sturlungs. She was also a skald and listed as such in Skáldatal. Most of what is kn…
Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
Yekuno Amlak ; throne name Tesfa Iyasus was Emperor of Ethiopia, from 1270 to 1285, and the founder of the Solomonic dynasty, which lasted until 1974. He was a ruler from Bete Amha…
Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe…
Philip III, called the Bold, was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade. Philip, who was accompanying him, …
Philip III, although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX,…
The Eighth Crusade was the second Crusade launched by Louis IX of France, this one against the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya in 1270. It is also known as the Crusade of Louis IX Again…
The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of…
Béla IV was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258. As the oldest son of King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a gr…
Béla IV of Hungary (born 1206)
Stephen (I) Báncsa was the first Hungarian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Prior to that, he served as Bishop of Vác from 1240 or 1241 to 1243, then Archbishop of Esztergom …
Stephen Báncsa, Hungarian cardinal (born c. 1205)
Boniface of Savoy was a medieval Bishop of Belley in Savoy and Archbishop of Canterbury in England. He was the son of Thomas, Count of Savoy, and owed his initial ecclesiastical po…
Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
Alfonso of Brienne, called Alphonse d'Acre, was the son of John of Brienne and Berengaria of León, born in Acre.
Alphonso of Brienne (born c. 1225)
Philip ΙΙ of Montfort was a French nobleman, Count of Squillace in Italy from 1266/68, then Lord of Castres in 1270. He was the son of Philip I of Monfort, Lord of Tyre and Eleonor…
Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres
Philip III, called the Bold, was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade. Philip, who was accompanying him, …
Philip III became King of France following the death of his father Louis IX during the Eighth Crusade.
Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians, is the sole ki…
Louis IX of France (born 1214)
Yekuno Amlak ; throne name Tesfa Iyasus was Emperor of Ethiopia, from 1270 to 1285, and the founder of the Solomonic dynasty, which lasted until 1974. He was a ruler from Bete Amha…
Yekuno Amlak deposed the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia, beginning the reign of the…