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1215 Born
1247 Saint Louis massacres the last remaining Catharists at Montségur.
1248 King Louis IX of France launches the Seventh Crusade, leading an army of 20,000 toward Egypt.
1249 King Louis IX of France captures Damietta in Egypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade.
1249 Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
1250 King Louis IX of France released by his Egyptian captors after paying a ransom of one million dinars and turning over the city of Damietta.
1250 Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1251 Andrew of Longjumeau, dispatched two years earlier by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to the Mongols, returns to his king with reports from the Mongols and Tartary; his mission is considered a failure.
1253 King Louis IX of France dispatches William of Rubruck from Constantinople on a missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia. Later that year, William records the first recorded meeting between European Christians and Buddhists.
1254 King Louis IX of France, having exhausted his funds and being needed at home, abandons the Seventh Crusade (which he had conducted first in Egypt and then Syria) and returns to France.
1259 Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
1260 The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1268 The House of Bourbon first rises to prominence with the marriage of Robert, Count of Clermont to King Louis IX of France's daughter, Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress to the lordship of Bourbon.
1269 King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1270 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.
1270 Died
1297 Canonization of Louis IX, King of France
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