1272

Year 1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• February – Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durazzo, Albania, and establishes the Albanian Kingdom.
• May 12 – The Mamluk sultan Baybars and the Kingdom of Jerusalem conclude a ten-year truce at Caesarea.^[1]
• November 16 – Edward I becomes King of England on the death of his father Henry III.
• Baybars invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria, to the south of Egypt.
• Floris V, Count of Holland, makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.
• King Afonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.
• Worshipful Company of Cordwainers and Curriers granted rights to regulate the leather trade in the City of London (England); Fishmongers Company chartered.
• In astronomy, the recording of the Alfonsine tables is completed.^[2]

Births

• December 13 – King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)
• date unknown – Bernardo Tolomei, Italian theologian (d. 1348)
• Otto I of Hesse (approximate date; d. 1328)
• Isabel Bruce; queen consort of Norway (approximate date; d. 1358)

Deaths

• March 17 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
• March 18 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246)
• April 2 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
• April 27 – Saint Zita, Italian saint
• August 6 – King Stephen V of Hungary
• August 7 – Richard Middleton, Lord Chancellor of England
• October 27 or October 30 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1213)
• November 16 – King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
• December 13 – Bertold of Regensburg, German preacher
• Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan monk and encyclopedia writer (b. before 1203)
• William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1200)
• William of Sherwood, English logician (approximate date; b. c.1200)

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