Economy Alfonso X (the Wise) creates and grants privileges to the Mesta to promote the wool industry, protecting livestock owners and their animals in the Crown of Castile. Religion October 6 – Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and theologian, writes Summa Theologica. A master work of Catholic theology, leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during mass. Births January 14 – Joan I of Navarre, queen of Navarre (d. 1305) March 25 – Henry Percy, English nobleman and knight (d. 1314) July 22 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian religious leader (d. 1352) November 24 – Alphonso, English prince and heir (d. 1284) Abulfeda, Ayyubid prince, geographer and historian (d. 1331) Adam de Gordon, Scottish statesman and knight (d. 1333) David VIII, king of Georgia (House of Bagrationi) (d. 1311) Geoffrey I of Vianden, Luxembourgian nobleman (d. 1310) Henry VII of Luxembrug, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1313) Ibn Adjurrum, Marinid scholar and grammarian (d. 1323) Kujō Moronori, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1320) Robert Bertrand, Norman nobleman and knight (d. 1348) Yolande of Aragon, Spanish princess (infanta) (d. 1302) Deaths January 22 – Muhammad I, Nasrid ruler of Granada (b. 1195) January 25 – Odo of Châteauroux, French bishop (b. 1190) April 29 – Al-Qurtubi, Moorish scholar and writer (b. 1214) June 13 – Hōjō Masamura, Japanese nobleman (b. 1205) July 8 – Anno von Sangershausen, German Grand Master September 15 – Henry of Sandwich, English bishop (b. 1204) September 30 – Arsenios Autoreianos, Byzantine patriarch October 9 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, queen of Germany (b. 1227) October 11 – Hildebold of Wunstorf, German archbishop October 18 – George de Cantilupe, English nobleman October 23 – Adelaide of Burgundy, French noblewoman December 17 – Rumi, Persian scholar and mystic (b. 1207) Ákos, Hungarian cleric, priest, chancellor and chronicler Albert Suerbeer, German archbishop and prince-bishop Baldwin of Courtenay, emperor of the Latin Empire (b. 1217) George Elmacin, Egyptian historian and writer (b. 1205) Ottaviano degli Ubaldini, Italian bishop and cardinal (b. 1214) Robert de Keldeleth, Scottish monk, abbot and chancellor Robert Walerand, English nobleman, seneschal and judge References