Events

• Eleanor de Montfort is captured by pirates in the employ of Edward I of England to prevent her marriage to Llywelyn the Last, prince of Wales
• Edward I of England also passes a statute that forces all Jews over the age of 7 to wear the yellow badge and makes usury illegal
• Jean de Meun writes the second portion of the Roman de la Rose
• The Elder Edda is written down by the scribe Saemund
• John XI Bekkos succeeds Joseph I Galesiotes as Patriarch of Constantinople
• Jacopo Contarini succeeds Lorenzo Tiepolo as Doge of Venice
• Magnus I succeeds Valdemar on the throne of Sweden
• Robert Burnell is elected Bishop of Bath and Wells
• Godfred Magnuson briefly rules the Isle of Man before Scotland regains control of the island
• Bergedorf is chartered as a city

Births

• Giovanni Andrea, Italian cleric and professor
• Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor
• John II, Duke of Brabant
• Mondino de Liuzzi, professor of medicine and anatomy
• Hojo Morotoki , regent of the Kamakura Shogunate
• Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens

Deaths

• Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford
• Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford
• John Hovendon , Latin poet and chaplain to Elenor of Provence

Monarchs/Presidents

• Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276)