1212

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1180s  1190s  1200s  – 1210s –  1220s  1230s  1240s
Years:	1209 1210 1211 – 1212 – 1213 1214 1215

1212 is a year in the 13th century.

Events

• July 10 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground
• Battle of Navas de Tolosa
• Children's crusade
• Crusaders push the Muslims out of northern Spain
• In Japan, Kamo no Chōmei writes the Hōjōki, one of the great works of classical Japanese prose

Births

• March 22 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (died 1234)
• Yolande of Jerusalem (died 1228)
• Malatesta da Verucchio, Italian condottiero, founder of the Malatesta family (died 1312)
• Zita, patron saint of maids and domestic servants (died 1272)

Deaths

• March 26 – King Sancho I of Portugal (born 1154)
• April 12 – Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (born 1154)
• October 9 – Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (born 1175)
• November 4 – Felix of Valois, French saint (born 1127)
• December 12 – Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (born 1152)
• Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht
• William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale,
• Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, 5th Lord of Annandale
• Margaret of Huntingdon, eldest daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon by his wife (born 1180)
• Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem (born 1192)
• Peter de Preaux, Norman knight in the service of the Angevin kings of England
• Robert of Auxerre, French chronicler (born 1156)
• Honen Shonin, founder of Jodo Shu, a branch of Pure Land Buddhism (born 1133)
• Robert of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bangor