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The 1270s is the decade starting January 1, 1270, and ending December 31, 1279.

1270

Africa

The Eighth Crusade

Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade, in an attempt to recapture the Crusader States from the Mamluk sultan Baibars; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis.^[1]
August 25 – King Louis IX of France dies while besieging the city of Tunis, possibly due to poor quality drinking water.^[2]
October 30 – The siege of Tunis and the Eighth Crusade end, through an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (Louis IX's brother) and Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Khalif of Tunis.^[3]

Other events

August 10 (10 Nehasé 1262) – Yekuno Amlak overthrows the Ethiopian Zagwe dynasty, claims the imperial throne and establishes the Solomonic Dynasty, which will last until 1974.^[4]

Asia

In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion begins against the Goryeo dynasty, a vassal state of the Yuan dynasty.^[5]
The ancient city of Ascalon is captured from the Crusader States, and utterly destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baibars, who goes so far as to fill in its important harbor, leaving the site desolate, and the city never to be rebuilt.^[6]
The city of Tabriz, in present-day Iran, is made capital of the Mongol Ilkhanate Empire (approximate date).^[7]
The independent state of Kutch is founded, in present-day India.^[8]
A census of the Chinese city of Hangzhou establishes that some 186,330 families reside within it, not including visitors and soldiers (Historian Jacques Gernet argues that this means a population of over 1 million inhabitants, making Hangzhou the most populous city in the world).^[9]
December 15 – The Nizari Ismaili garrison of Gerdkuh, Persia surrender after 17 years to the Mongols.^[10]

Europe

February 16 – Livonian Crusade - Battle of Karuse: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order decisively, on the frozen surface of the Baltic Sea.^[11]
September 1 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila has been recently discovered.^{[citation needed]}
December – Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism (itself based on Aristotle's works) are banned by the Roman Catholic Church, in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris.^[12]
The Summa Theologica, a work by Thomas Aquinas that is considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology, is completed (year uncertain).^[13]
Witelo translates Alhazen's 200-year-old treatise on optics, Kitab al-Manazir, from Arabic into Latin, bringing the work to European academic circles for the first time.^[14]
The Sanskrit fables known as the Panchatantra, dating from as early as 200 BCE, are translated into Latin, from a Hebrew version by John of Capua.^[15]
Construction of the Old New Synagogue in Prague is completed.^[16]
The cathedral on the Rock of Cashel in Ireland is completed.^[17]
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, donates to the Cistercian Hailes Abbey in England (his father's foundation) a phial held to contain the Blood of Christ, acquired in the Holy Roman Empire; this becomes such a magnet for pilgrimage that within 7 years the monks are able to rebuild their abbey on a magnificent scale.^[18]
The Chronicle of Melrose is ended.^[19]

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Significant people

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Births

1270

March 12 – Charles, Count of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)^[97]
Theodore Metochites, Byzantine statesman and author^[98]
Michael of Cesena, Franciscan theologian (d. 1342)^[99]
Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (d. 1336)^[100]
Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany (d. 1323)^[101]
Ma Zhiyuan, Chinese poet^[102]
Namdev, Marathi saint and poet (d. 1350)^[103]
approximate – William Wallace, Scottish patriot^[104]

1271

March 13 – Judith of Habsburg, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1297)
March 14 – Stephen I, German nobleman and regent (d. 1310)
May 25 – Shah Jalal, Indian Sufi leader and mystic (d. 1346)
June 20 – John de Ferrers, English nobleman (d. 1312)
September 8 – Charles Martel, king of Hungary (d. 1295)
September 27 – Wenceslaus II, king of Poland (d. 1305)
November 2 – Gong of Song, Chinese emperor (d. 1323)
November 5 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
Blanche of Brittany, French noblewoman (d. 1327)
Cheng Duanli, Chinese scholar and poet (d. 1345)
Cormac MacCarthy Mor, Irish king of Desmond (d. 1359)
Elizabeth of Aragon, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1336)
Gerlach I, Count of Nassau, German nobleman and knight (d. 1361)
Mikhail of Tver (Mikhail Yaroslavich), Kievan Grand Prince (d. 1318)
Nijō Tamemichi, Japanese poet and writer (d. 1299)
Saionji Shōshi (Eifuku Mon'in), Japanese empress consort (d. 1342)
Sargis II Jaqeli, Georgian nobleman and prince (d. 1334)
Sunbi Heo, wife of Chungseon of Goryeo (d. 1335)

1272

January 14 – Hōjō Sadatoki, Japanese regent (d. 1311)
January 31 – William Ferrers, English nobleman (d. 1235)
February 12 – Zhao Bing, Chinese emperor (d. 1279)
April – Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (d. 1307)
May 10 – Bernardo Tolomei, Italian theologian (d. 1348)
December 13 – Frederick III, king of Sicily (d. 1337)
Badr al-Din Solamish, Mamluk ruler of Egypt (d. 1291)
Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen, German nobleman and regent (d. 1340)
Eric Longlegs, Lord of Langeland (Erik Eriksøn), Danish nobleman (d. 1310)
Fath al-Din ibn Sayyid, Egyptian theologian (d. 1334)
Louis I, Count of Nevers, French nobleman and knight (d. 1322)
Margaret, Countess of Anjou, French noblewoman (d. 1299)
Shiwu ('Stonehouse'), Chinese poet (d. 1352)
Approximate date
- Amalric, Lord of Tyre, Outremer nobleman and prince (d. 1310)
- Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman (d. 1315)
- Isabel Bruce, queen consort of Norway (d. 1358)
- Otto I, Landgrave of Hesse, German nobleman (d. 1328)

1273

January 14 – Joan I of Navarre, queen of Navarre (d. 1305)^[105]
March 25 – Henry Percy, English nobleman and knight (d. 1314)
July 22 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian religious leader (d. 1352)
November 24 – Alphonso, English prince and heir (d. 1284)
Abulfeda, Ayyubid prince, geographer and historian (d. 1331)
Adam de Gordon, Scottish statesman and knight (d. 1333)
David VIII, king of Georgia (House of Bagrationi) (d. 1311)
Geoffrey I of Vianden, Luxembourgian nobleman (d. 1310)
Henry VII of Luxembrug, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1313)
Ibn Adjurrum, Marinid scholar and grammarian (d. 1323)
Kujō Moronori, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1320)
Robert Bertrand, Norman nobleman and knight (d. 1348)
Yolande of Aragon, Spanish princess (infanta) (d. 1302)
Min Hti King of Myanmar (d. 1374)

1274

February 9 – Louis of Toulouse, French archbishop (d. 1297)
April 1 – Robert Clifford, English nobleman and knight (d. 1314)
July 11 – Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland (d. 1329)
July 25 – John Beauchamp, English nobleman (d. 1336)
October 4 – Rudolf I, German nobleman (d. 1319)
October 5 – Al-Dhahabi, Syrian scholar and encyclopedist (d. 1348)
November 24 – Catherine I, Latin empress (d. 1307)
Eric VI, king of Denmark (House of Estridsen) (d. 1319)
Ibn al-Jayyab, Andalusian scholar and poet (d. 1349)
Marino Faliero (or Falier), doge of Venice (d. 1355)
Rizzardo IV da Camino, Italian nobleman and military leader (d. 1312)
Sancho I ("the Peaceful"), king of Majorca (d. 1324)
Seisetsu Shōchō, Chinese Buddhist missionary (d. 1339)
Approximate date
- Adam Murimuth, English priest and chronicler (d. 1347)
- Anastasia de Montfort, Italian noblewoman (d. 1345)
- Awhadi Maraghai, Persian poet and mystic (d. 1338)
- Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi, Indian Sufi poet (d. 1337)

1275

August 18 – Bartholomew Badlesmere, English nobleman (d. 1322)
September 27 – John II, Duke of Brabant ("the Peaceful"), Dutch nobleman (d. 1312)
October 20 – Chungseon of Goryeo (or Wang Jang), Korean ruler (d. 1325)
Andrew Horn, English scholar, chamberlain and writer (d. 1328)
Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Anglo-French nobleman and knight (d. 1324)
Dnyaneshwar, Indian Hindu poet, philosopher and writer (d. 1296)
Eleanor of Brittany, Anglo-Norman Benedictine abbess (d. 1342)
Fernando de la Cerda, Spanish nobleman and prince (d. 1322)
Nijō Tamefuji (Fujiwara no Tamefuji), Japanese nobleman and poet (d. 1324)
Gasan Jōseki, Japanese Sōtō Zen monk and disciple (d. 1366)
Gerard of Lunel, French nobleman, monk and hermit (d. 1298)
Gregory of Raska, Serbian copyist, bishop and writer (d. 1321)
Gueraula de Codines, Spanish folk healer and occultist (d. 1340)
Hōjō Morotoki, Japanese nobleman and regent (shikken) (d. 1311)
Hugues de Bouville, French nobleman and chamberlain (d. 1331)
Jón Halldórsson, Norwegian cleric, priest and bishop (d. 1339)
Musō Soseki, Japanese Rinzai Zen monk and teacher (d. 1351)
Peter of Zittau, Bohemian abbot, historian and writer (d. 1339)
Takatsukasa Fuyuhira, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1327)
William of Alnwick, English friar, bishop and theologian (d. 1333)

1276

February 21 – Thomas de Multon, 1st Baron Multon of Gilsland, English nobleman (d. 1313)
May 3 – Louis, Count of Évreux, son of Philip III of France (d. 1319)
September 14 – Hugh de Courtenay, 1st/9th Earl of Devon, English nobleman (d. 1340)
September 29 – Christopher II, king of Denmark (d. 1332)
October 4 – Margaret of Brabant, queen consort of Germany (d. 1311)
October 19 – Hisaaki, Japanese prince and shogun (d. 1328)
Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg, German noblewoman and regent (d. 1345)
Diederik II, German count of Limburg-Hohenlimburg (d. 1364)
Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English nobleman and knight (d. 1322)
Ichijō Uchisane, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1304)
Margaret of Lusignan, queen consort of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (d. 1296)
Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German co-ruler (d. 1318)
Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn (or Moray), Scottish nobleman (d. 1346)
Najm ad-Din al-Tufi, Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1316)
Robert of Anjou, king of Naples (House of Capet) (d. 1343)
Thomas Dagworth, English nobleman and knight (d. 1350)
Vakhtang III, king of Georgia (House of Bagrationi) (d. 1308)

1277

January 7 – Kanzan Egen, Japanese monk (d. 1360)
January 21 – Galeazzo I Visconti, Italian nobleman (d. 1328)
March 26 – Christina Ebner, German mystic (d. 1356)
April 17 – Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1320)
Akamatsu Norimura, Japanese governor (shugo) (d. 1350)
Bernard V, German bishop (House of Lippe) d. 1341)
George I Šubić of Bribir, Croatian nobleman (d. 1302)
Gerhard IV, German nobleman and knight (d. 1323)
Ingeborg Magnusdotter Swedish princess, queen consort of Denmark (d. 1319)
Isabella of Mar, Scottish noblewoman, wife of Robert the Bruce (d. 1296)
Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1341)
Meihō Sotetsu, Japanese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1350)
Smbat I Hetumian (or Sempad), king of Cilician Armenia (d. 1310)
Wei Yilin, Chinese physician and surgeon (d. 1347)

1278

January 10/11 – Rita of Armenia, Byzantine empress consort (d. 1333)
March 11 – Mary of Woodstock, English princess, nun (d. 1332)
May 9 – Kokan Shiren, Japanese Zen patriarch (d. 1347)
August 26 – Safi al-Din al-Hilli, Persian poet and writer (d. 1349)
September 8 – Theobald II, English nobleman (d. 1316)
November 10 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto, Neapolitan prince (d. 1331)
Christopher Seton, Scottish nobleman and knight (d. 1306)
Constantine I (or III), co-ruler of Cilician Armenia (d. 1310)
Ferdinand of Majorca, Aragonese prince (infante) (d. 1316)
Hōjō Sadaaki, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1333)
Jean van Hocsem, Belgian monk and historian (d. 1348)
John de Graham, Scottish nobleman and knight (d. 1337)
Philip I of Piedmont, Latin prince of Achaea (d. 1334)
Thomas of Lancaster, English nobleman (d. 1322)

1279

March 3 – Ismail I, Nasrid ruler of Granada (d. 1325)
April 5 – Al-Nuwayri, Egyptian encyclopedist (d. 1333)
Abu Asida Muhammad II, Hafsid ruler of Tunis (d. 1309)
Antony Bek, English chancellor and bishop (d. 1343)
Hōjō Hirotoki, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1315)
John I, German nobleman (House of Hohenzollern) (d. 1300)
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon ("the Lame"), French nobleman and knight (d. 1341)
Muktabai (or Mukta), Indian religious leader (d. 1297)
Nigel de Brus, Scottish nobleman and knight (d. 1306)
Otto I, Polish nobleman (House of Griffin) (d. 1344)
Zahida Abbasiyah, Abbasid poet and writer (d. 1328

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Deaths

1270

January 18 – Saint Margaret of Hungary (b. 1242)^[106]
February 23 – Saint Isabelle of France, French princess and saint (b. 1225)^[107]
March 17 – Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre^[108]
May 3 – Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)^[109]
July 9 – Stephen Báncsa, Hungarian cardinal (b. c. 1205)^[110]
July 18 – Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury^[111]
August 25
- King Louis IX of France (b. 1214)^[112]
- Alphonso of Brienne (b. c. 1225)^[113]
September 24 – Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres^[114]
December 4 – Theobald II of Navarre (Theobald V of Champagne) (b. c. 1238)^[115]
David VII Ulu, King of Georgia (b. 1215)^[116]
Ibn Abi Usaibia, Syrian Arab medical historian (b. 1203)^[117]
Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, Jewish rabbi and scholar (b. 1200)^[118]
Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1212)^[119]
Uli I of Mali, second mansa of the Mali Empire^[120]

1271

January 17 – Joan, Countess of Chiny, French noblewoman (b. 1205)
January 28 – Isabella of Aragon, queen consort of France (b. 1248)
February 9 – Beatrix of Andechs-Merania, German princess (b. 1210)
March 13 – Henry of Almain (Henry of Cornwall), English nobleman (b. 1235)
March 21 – Ibn Sab'in, Andalusian philosopher and mystic
c. April 10 – Stephen the Posthumous, Hungarian pretender (b. 1236)
April 17 – Isabella of France, queen consort of Navarre (b. 1241)
July 1 – Bartholomew of Braganca, Italian friar and bishop
July 28 – Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (or Bourke), Norman nobleman
July – Arnaldo de Peralta, Aragonese archbishop and statesman
August 21 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
August 25 – Joan of Toulouse, French noblewoman (b. 1220)
September 1 – Annibaldo degli Annibaldi, Italian theologian
September 9 – Yaroslav III, Kievan Grand Prince (b. 1230)
October or November – Marsilio Zorzi, Venetian statesman, Count of Curzola and Mèleda^[121]
October 17 – Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic female poet
October 19 – Philip Basset, English chief justiciar (b. 1185)
November 6 or 7 – Henry of Segusio, Italian jurist and cardinal-bishop (b. 1200)
Al-Mansur al-Hasan, Yemeni imam and politician (b. 1199)
Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine nobleman, half-brother of Emperor Michael VIII, co-ruler and monk (b. c.1230)
Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq, Mongol ruler of the Chagatai Khanate
Haji Bektash Veli, Persian philosopher and mystic (b. 1209)
Lauretta of Saarbrücken, German noblewoman and regent
Maria of Chernigov, Kievan princess, regent and chronicler (b. 1212)
Richard de Grey, English nobleman, constable and knight
Roger de Leybourne, English nobleman and High Sheriff
Vardan Areveltsi, Armenian historian and writer (b. 1198)

1272

January 6 – Alfonso of Molina, Leonese prince (b. 1202)
March 14 – Enzo of Sardinia, king of Sardinia (b. 1218)
March 17 – Go-Saga, emperor of Japan (b. 1220)
March 18 – John FitzAlan, English nobleman (b. 1246)
April 2 – Richard of Cornwall, English nobleman (b. 1209)
April 27 – Zita (or Sitha), Italian maid and saint (b. 1212)
May 15 – Thomas of Cantimpré, Flemish priest (b. 1201)
May 20 – Guy de Bourgogne, French abbot and cardinal
May 27 – Eric I, Duke of Schleswig (Abelsøn), Danish nobleman and knight
June 10 – Berchtold von Falkenstein, German abbot
c. June – James Audley (or Aldithel), English high sheriff (b. 1220)
August 6 – Stephen V, king of Hungary (b. 1239)
August 7 – Richard Middleton, English Lord Chancellor
September 18 – Peter III de Brus, English nobleman
September – Gerard of Abbeville, French monk and theologian (b. 1220)
October 10 – Yolande of Brittany, French noblewoman
October 27 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French nobleman (b. 1213)
November 16 – Henry III, king of England (b. 1207)
November 19 – David of Augsburg, German friar and mystic
December 14 – Berthold of Ratisbon, German monk and preacher (b. 1210)
December 18 – Philip Türje, Hungarian archbishop (b. 1218)
Amanieu VII, French nobleman and knight (House of Albret)
Bartholomeus Anglicus, English monk and encyclopedist
Guido Guerra V, Italian nobleman and politician (b. 1220)
Maud de Prendergast, Norman-Irish noblewoman (b. 1242)
Nikephoros Blemmydes, Byzantine theologian (b. 1197)
William of Saint-Amour, French philosopher and writer
Approximate date – William of Sherwood, English philosopher and logician

1273

January 22 – Muhammad I, Nasrid ruler of Granada (b. 1195)
January 25 – Odo of Châteauroux, French bishop (b. 1190)
April 29 – Al-Qurtubi, Moorish scholar and writer (b. 1214)
June 13 – Hōjō Masamura, Japanese nobleman (b. 1205)
July 8 – Anno von Sangershausen, German Grand Master
September 15 – Henry of Sandwich, English bishop (b. 1204)
September 30 – Arsenios Autoreianos, Byzantine patriarch
October 9 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, queen of Germany (b. 1227)
October 11 – Hildebold of Wunstorf, German archbishop
October 18 – George de Cantilupe, English nobleman
October 23 – Adelaide of Burgundy, French noblewoman
December 17 – Rumi, Persian scholar and mystic (b. 1207)
Ákos, Hungarian cleric, priest, chancellor and chronicler
Albert Suerbeer, German archbishop and prince-bishop
Baldwin of Courtenay, emperor of the Latin Empire (b. 1217)
George Elmacin, Egyptian historian and writer (b. 1205)
Ottaviano degli Ubaldini, Italian bishop and cardinal (b. 1214)
Robert de Keldeleth, Scottish monk, abbot and chancellor
Robert Walerand, English nobleman, seneschal and judge

1274

February 18 – Jakob Erlandsen, Danish cleric and archbishop
February 19 – Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Afghan Sufi poet (b. 1177)
February 21 – Ibn Malik, Moorish grammarian and writer (b. 1205)
March 7 – Thomas Aquinas, Italian friar and theologian (b. 1225)
April 26 – Heinrich von Wartenberg, Swiss nobleman and abbot
June 3 – Lawrence of St. Martin, English archdeacon and bishop
June 26 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (b. 1201)
July 15 – Bonaventure, Italian theologian and philosopher (b. 1221)
July 22 – Henry I (or Henry III), king of Navarre (House of Blois)
July 23 – Wonjong of Goryeo, Korean prince and ruler (b. 1219)
August 4 – Robert Stitchill (or Stichel), English prior and bishop
August 12 – Duzong (or Zhao Qi), Chinese emperor (b. 1240)
August 15 – Robert de Sorbon, French chaplain and theologian
September 2 – Munetaka, Japanese prince and shogun (b. 1242)
September 26–29 – Henry I Kőszegi ("the Great"), Hungarian nobleman (b. 1210)^[122]
October 14 – Henry, English prince and son of Edward I (b. 1268)
November 4 – Sō Sukekuni, Japanese governor (jitodai) (b. 1207)
November 8 – Fujiwara no Akiuji, Japanese nobleman (b. 1207)
November 10 – Aveline de Forz, English noblewoman (b. 1259)
November 28 – Philip of Castile, son of Ferdinand III (b. 1231)
Beatrice of Montferrat, Italian noblewoman and regent (b. 1210)
Gilbert of Preston, English nobleman and chief justice (b. 1209)
Liu Bingzhong, Chinese court advisor and architect (b. 1216)
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, Seljuk philosopher and writer (b. 1207)
Approximate date
- Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English merchant and chronicler (b. 1201)
- William Longleg, Lord of Douglas, Scottish nobleman (b. 1220)

1275

January 6 – Raymond of Penyafort, Spanish priest (b. 1175)
January 26 – Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German poet (b. 1200)
February 8 – Paio Peres Correia, Portuguese Grand Master
February 11 – Urania of Worms, German Jewish precentress
February 26 – Margaret of England, queen consort of Scotland (b. 1240)
March 5 – Shi Tianze, Chinese general and politician (b. 1202)
March 9 – Fujiwara no Chōshi, Japanese empress (b. 1218)
March 24 – Beatrice of England, countess of Richmond (b. 1242)
April 13 – Eleanor of England, countess of Leicester (b. 1215)
May 6 – Marie of Brienne, Latin empress and regent (b. 1224)
May 21 – Cecile of Baux, Savoyan noblewoman and regent
May 29 – Sophie of Thuringia, duchess of Brabant (b. 1224)
June 17 – Arghun Aqa the Elder, Mongol nobleman (b. 1210)
August 15 – Lorenzo Tiepolo (or Theupolo), doge of Venice
September 8 – Nuño González de Lara, Spanish nobleman
September 24 – Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, English nobleman
October 21 – Sancho of Aragon, archbishop of Toledo (b. 1250)
October 23 – Ferdinand de la Cerda, Spanish prince (b. 1255)
November 23 – Margaret of Bar, French noblewoman (b. 1220)
December 17 – Eric Birgersson, Swedish nobleman (b. 1250)
Beatrice of Sicily, Latin empress of Constantinople (b. 1252)
Bernard IV of Lippe, German nobleman and knight (b. 1230)
Bohemond VI of Antioch ("the Fair"), Outremer prince and knight (b. 1237)
Dietrich VI of Meissen, German nobleman and knight (b. 1226)
Fujiwara no Tameie, Japanese waka poet and writer (b. 1198)
Geoffrey of Briel (or Bruyères), Achaean nobleman (b. 1223)
Jia Sidao, Chinese politician and Grand Chancellor (b. 1213)
John FitzJohn, English nobleman and rebel leader (b. 1240)
Kujō Tadaie, Japanese nobleman and chancellor (b. 1229)
Luca Grimaldi, Genoese troubadour, politician and diplomat
Paul Balog, Hungarian vice-chancellor and bishop (b. 1227)
William of Luxi, priest, preacher, theologian and biblical exegete (d.o.b. unknown)^[123]
Xueting Fuyu, Chinese Buddhist monk and abbot (b. 1203)

1276

January 10 – Gregory X, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1210)^[124]
January 24 – Walram II, Count of Nassau, German nobleman (b. 1220)
March 26 – Margaret of Holland, Countess of Henneberg, Dutch noblewoman (b. 1234)
May 11 – Zaynaddin Ibn al-Ajami, Ayyubid scholar (b. 1195)
June 22 – Innocent V, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1220)
June 27 – Henry of Antioch, Outremer nobleman (b. 1217)
July 27 – James I ("the Conqueror"), king of Aragon (b. 1208)
August 18 – Adrian V, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1215)
September 6 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal
November 30 – Hōjō Sanetoki, Japanese nobleman (b. 1224)
Ahmad al-Badawi, Almohad Sufi scholar and mystic (b. 1200)
Benedict III, Hungarian priest, vice-chancellor and archbishop
Ela Longespee, English noblewoman and co-heiress (b. 1244)
Gerardo of Borgo San Donnino, Italian friar, scholar and writer
Guido Guinizelli, Italian poet and founder of Dolce Stil Novo
Louis of France, French prince and heir apparent (b. 1264)
Hamuro Mitsutoshi, Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 1203)
Mathilde of Saarbrücken, German noblewoman and regent
Najm al-Din al-Qazwini al-Katibi, Persian scholar and writer
Rolandino of Padua, Italian scholar, jurist and writer (b. 1200)
Vasily of Kostroma, Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal (b. 1241)

1277

January/March – Philip of Sicily, king of Sardinia (House of Anjou)
January 12 – Philippe de Toucy, French nobleman
January 17 – Chen Wenlong, Chinese general (b. 1232)
February 14 – Ulrich von Güttingen, German abbot
February – Simone Paltanieri, Italian archpriest and cardinal
April – Joachim Gutkeled, Hungarian nobleman and knight^[125]
May 1 – Stefan Uroš I ("the Great"'), king of Serbia
May 14 – Nicholas I of Werle, German nobleman
May 20 – John XXI, pope of the Catholic Church
June 20 (or May 1279) – Shams al-Din Mehmed of Karaman, Seljuk nobleman and vizier
July 1 – Baibars (or Abu al-Futuh), Mamluk sultan
July 14 – Humbert of Romans, French friar and writer
August 2 – Mu'in al-Din Parwana, Seljuk statesman
September 29 – Balian of Arsuf, Cypriot nobleman
October 17 – Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort
October 26 – Mastino I della Scala, Italian nobleman
October 27 – Walter de Merton, bishop of Rochester
December 21 – Al-Nawawi, Seljuk scholar (b. 1233)
December 13 – John I, German nobleman (b. 1242)
Konstantin Tih, Bulgarian nobleman and ruler, killed in revolt
Folke Johansson Ängel ("Angelus"'), Swedish archbishop
Frederick II, German nobleman (House of Isenburg)
Frederick of Castile, Spanish prince (infante), executed (b. 1223)
Guo Kan, Chinese general and politician (b. 1217)
Jacopo da Leona, Italian secretary, jurist and poet
Licoricia of Winchester, English Jewish businesswoman, murdered
Madog II ap Gruffydd, Lord of Dinas Bran, Welsh prince and nobleman, killed in battle
Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Hafsid sultan and writer
Muhaqqiq al-Hilli, Persian scholar, poet and writer
Paolo Navigajoso, Venetian nobleman (megadux), ruler of Lemnos, killed in battle
Savakanmaindan, Malayan ruler of Tambralinga
Squarcino Borri (or Scarsini), Italian condottiero
Ulrich of Strasburg, German monk and theologian
William of Saliceto, Italian scholar and surgeon

1278

January 3 – Ladislaus II Kán, Hungarian nobleman and knight
January 22 – Roger de Skerning, English monk and bishop
March 16 – William IV, German nobleman and knight (b. 1210)
March 28 or 29 – Bertrand de Saint-Martin, French cardinal and archbishop
May 1 – William II of Villehardouin, prince of Achaea (b. 1211)
May 8 – Emperor Duanzong (or Zhao Shi), Chinese emperor (b. 1270)
June 30 – Pierre de la Broce, French nobleman and councilor
August 16 – Napoleone della Torre (or Napo), Italian nobleman
August 26 – Ottokar II, Bohemian nobleman and king (b. 1233)
September or October – Robert de Chauncy, English cleric, bishop and high sheriff
November 13 – Barnim I, German nobleman (House of Griffin)
December 26/31 – Bolesław II the Horned, Polish nobleman (House of Piast)
December (or 1277) – Sambor II of Tczew, German nobleman, prince and knight
Andrew, Duke of Slavonia, Hungarian nobleman and prince (House of Árpád) (b. 1268)
Geoffrey Chauderon, Latin nobleman and Grand Constable
Lancelot de Saint-Maard, French nobleman and marshal
Lanxi Daolong, Chinese-born monk and calligrapher (b. 1213)
Lý Chiêu Hoàng, Vietnamese empress consort (b. 1218)
Martin of Opava (or Poland), Polish bishop and chronicler
Stephen II Báncsa, Hungarian prelate and bishop (b. 1240)
Tudur ap Ednyfed Fychan, Welsh nobleman and politician
Ubertino Pallavicini, Italian nobleman (House of Pallavicini)

1279

February 16 – Afonso III ("the Boulonnais"), king of Portugal (b. 1210)
March 5 – Ernst von Ratzeburg, German knight and Grand Master
March 16 – Joan of Dammartin, Spanish queen consort (b. 1220)^[126]
March 19
- Lu Xiufu (or Junshi), Chinese Grand Chancellor (b. 1236)
- Zhao Bing, Chinese emperor (House of Zhao) (b. 1272)
March 24 – Rinchen Gyaltsen, Tibetan imperial preceptor (b. 1238)
April 2 – Abel Abelsøn, Danish nobleman and landowner (b. 1252)
May 7 – Alberto da Bergamo, Italian Dominican friar (b. 1214)
May 28 – William Wishart (or Wischard), Scottish bishop (b. 1225)
July 15 – William Langton (or Rotherfield), English archdeacon
July 22 – Philip of Spanheim, German archbishop and patriarch
August 15 – Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("the Great"), German nobleman (b. 1236)
September 3 – Étienne Tempier, French bishop and chancellor
September 11 – Robert Kilwardby, English archbishop (b. 1215)
September 18 – Ulrich II, Count of Württemberg, German nobleman and ruler (b. 1254)
December 7 – Bolesław V the Chaste, Polish nobleman (b. 1226)
December 18 – Richard of Gravesend, English priest and bishop
Ajall Shams al-Din Omar, Persian governor and ruler (b. 1211)
David de Lindsay, Scottish nobleman and Lord Chamberlain
Gilla in Choimded Ó Cerbailláin (or Germanus), Irish bishop
Li Ye (or Li Zhi), Chinese mathematician and writer (b. 1192)
Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby, English nobleman and landowner (b. 1239)
Walter Giffard, English Lord Chancellor and archbishop (b. 1225)

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