1255

Year 1255 (MCCLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1255 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1255
MCCLV
Ab urbe condita2008
Armenian calendar704
ԹՎ ՉԴ
Assyrian calendar6005
Balinese saka calendar1176–1177
Bengali calendar662
Berber calendar2205
English Regnal year39 Hen. 3  40 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar1799
Burmese calendar617
Byzantine calendar6763–6764
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
3951 or 3891
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3952 or 3892
Coptic calendar971–972
Discordian calendar2421
Ethiopian calendar1247–1248
Hebrew calendar5015–5016
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1311–1312
 - Shaka Samvat1176–1177
 - Kali Yuga4355–4356
Holocene calendar11255
Igbo calendar255–256
Iranian calendar633–634
Islamic calendar652–653
Japanese calendarKenchō 7
(建長7年)
Javanese calendar1164–1165
Julian calendar1255
MCCLV
Korean calendar3588
Minguo calendar657 before ROC
民前657年
Nanakshahi calendar−213
Thai solar calendar1797–1798
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1381 or 1000 or 228
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
1382 or 1001 or 229
Coat of Arms of Walram II of Nassau

Events

Europe

  • February 25 Battle of Montebruno: Guelph forces under Thomas II of Savoy invade the Ghibelline territory of Asti (located in the Piedmont region), but he is defeated by the Astigiani army led by William VII at Garzigliana (Northern Italy). Thomas retreats and takes refuge in Turin, however, he is later captured by the Ghibellines.
  • May William of Rubruck from Constantinople returns to Cyprus from his missionary journey to convert the Mongols of central and eastern Asia, his efforts have been unsuccessful.
  • Emperor Theodore II (Laskaris), who is in exile in the Empire of Nicaea, conducts a military campaign to recover Thrace from the Bulgarians.
  • King Afonso III (the Boulonnais) moves his residence and royal court from Lisbon to Coimbra, which becomes the capital of Portugal.
  • The Teutonic Knights in Prussia found Königsberg (modern-day Kaliningrad) and name it in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
  • The lands of the House of Nassau are divided between the brothers Walram II and Otto I, not to be reunited until 1806.

England

  • June Battle of Bryn Derwin: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd defeats his two brothers Dafydd ap Gruffydd and Owain Goch ap Gruffydd, to become sole ruler of northern Wales. Dafydd and Owain are both imprisoned.[1]
  • August Following the death of Little Saint Hugh, in an instance of blood libel, eighteen Jews of Lincoln, are tortured and executed by royal command on suspicion of being involved in the boy's murder.[1]
  • A survey of royal privileges is conducted, which is included in the Hundred Rolls, a census seen as a follow-up to the Domesday Book (completed in 1086). The Hundred Rolls is later completed with two larger surveys, in 1274/75 and 1279/80.[2]

Art and Culture

City and Towns

Market

  • Orlando Bonsignori, an Italian minor merchant, forms a consortium called the Gran Tavola ("Great Table"), which becomes the most powerful bank in western Europe. He becomes the exclusive banker for the deposits of the income of the Papal States.[3]

Births

  • October 23 Fernando de la Cerda, Spanish prince (d. 1275)
  • Adolf of Nassau-weilburg, king of Germany (d. 1298)
  • Albert I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1308)
  • Andrey of Gorodets, Kievan Grand Prince (d. 1304)
  • Bogislaw IV, Polish nobleman and knight (d. 1309)
  • Dino Compagni, Italian historian and writer (d. 1324)
  • Francesca da Rimini, Italian noblewoman (d. 1285)
  • John of Paris, French theologian and writer (d. 1306)
  • Margherita Colonna, Italian nun and abbess (d. 1280)
  • Nicholas I, Bohemian nobleman and knight (d. 1318)
  • William Ros, Scottish nobleman and knight (d. 1316)
  • Sanjar al-Jawli, Mamluk governor and ruler (d. 1345)
  • Sybille of Bâgé, countess consort of Savoy (d. 1294)
  • Takaoka Muneyasu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1326)

Deaths

  • May 1 Walter de Gray, English archbishop and statesman
  • August 27 Little Saint Hugh, English Jewish boy (b. 1246)
  • Al-Faqih al-Muqaddam, Yemeni religious leader (b. 1178)
  • Alice de Montfort, French noblewoman and ruler (suo jure)
  • Batu Khan, Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde
  • Carintana dalle Carceri, ruler of the Principality of Achaea
  • Denis Türje, Hungarian nobleman and military commander[4]
  • Eva de Braose, heiresses and wife of William de Cantilupe
  • Helena Pedersdatter Strange, queen of Sweden (b. 1200)
  • Majd al-Din ibn Taymiyyah, Seljuk judge and theologian
  • Masanari, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (b. 1200)
  • Muhammad III, ruler of the Nizari Ismaili State (b. 1211)
  • Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Mas'ud, Mihrabanid ruler of Sistan

References

  1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 84–86. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  2. Cam, Helen (1921). Studies in the hundred rolls: some aspects of thirteenth-century administration. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. Catoni, Giuliano. "Bonsignori". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  4. Zsoldos, Attila (2011). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301] (in Hungarian). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. p. 296. ISBN 978-963-9627-38-3.
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