1271) John III (Doukas Vatatzes), emperor of Nicaea (d. 1254) John Angelos (Good John), Byzantine prince (d. 1253) John Devereux, Norman nobleman (approximate date) Juliana of Liège, Belgian nun and mystic (d. 1258) Margaret of Scotland, English noblewoman (d. 1259) Sayyed ibn Tawus, Arab jurist and theologian (d. 1266) William de Ferrers, English nobleman (d. 1254) Deaths March 4 – Saladin (the Lion), sultan of Egypt and Syria (b. 1137) June 13 – Pedro de Artajona, Spanish nobleman and bishop June 27 – Robert FitzRalph, English archdeacon and bishop August 2 – Mieszko the Younger, duke of Kalisz (House of Piast) September 14 – Minamoto no Noriyori, Japanese general (b. 1150) September 23 – Robert IV, French nobleman and Grand Master December 23 – Thorlak Thorhallsson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1133) December 24 – Roger III, king of Sicily (House of Hauteville) Balian of Ibelin (the Younger), French nobleman and knight Derbforgaill ingen Maeleachlainn (or Derval), Irish princess Düsum Khyenpa, Tibetan spiritual leader (karmapa) (b. 1110) Fan Chengda, Chinese politician and geographer (b. 1126) Ren Zong, Chinese emperor of the Western Xia (b. 1124) Walter de Berkeley, Scottish nobleman (approximate date) References