people/1240s

English nobleman and royal official

Queen of Aragon from 1221 to 1229

Turkmen rebel

Ayyubid Emir of Homs (r. 1240–1246)

King of Alba from 1249 to 1286

French lawyer, judge, diplomat, bishop and cardinal

French nobleman

One of the most powerful Irish nobles of the late 13th and early 14th centuries

Jewish poet of the 13th century

Japanese clan head and samurai (1245–1298)

13th century English princess and duchess of Brittany

Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland (1247–1304)

Queen of England from 1272 to 1290

Queen of Navarre from 1258 to 1270

Queen consort of Hungary (1244–1290)

Almohad rival caliph (died 1242)

Almohad Caliph from 1242 to 1248

Nepalese artist and architect (c. 1245 – c. 1306)

Italian Franciscan friar

Italian priest

German nobleman and priest (died 1240)

Emperor of Song China from 1264 to 1274

German architect

Founder of the Apostolic Brethren

Welsh noble and statesman (died 1246)

French-born administrator who served King John of England

English nobleman (1243–1295)

King of Denmark from 1259 to 1286

Danish botanist (1164–1244)

13th-century Bishop of Coventry and Treasurer of England

Icelandic politician (1180–1247)

English philosopher and archbishop-elect of Canterbury (c.1175–1248)

King of Majorca (1243–1311)

13th-century Norman-Irish noblewoman

Princess of Sicily

Japanese Buddhist monk (1243–1338)

Murdered Scottish nobleman

13th-century Anglo-Scottish earl and claimant to the throne

Spanish Kabbalah teacher (1240-1291)