Go-Horikawa ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Kyoto Imperial Palace in Japan. He is a grandson of the late Emperor Takakura and a nephew of the exiled Go-Toba. Mesoamerica The Maya of the Yucatán revolt against the rulers of Chichen Itza. </onlyinclude> Births May 13 – Alexander Nevsky, Kievan Grand Prince (d. 1263) June 4 – Przemysł I, Polish nobleman and knight (d. 1257) October 9 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. 1290) November 2 – Saif al-Din Qutuz, Egyptian military leader (d. 1260) November 23 – Alfonso X ("the Wise"), king of Castile (d. 1284) Barisone III, Sardinian judge of Logudoro (or Torres) (d. 1236) Bonaventure, Italian theologian and philosopher (d. 1274) Hugh XI of Lusignan, French nobleman and knight (d. 1250) Margaret of Provence, queen consort of France (d. 1295) Nisshō, Japanese Buddhist priest and teacher (d. 1323) Theobald II of Bar, French nobleman and knight (d. 1291) Walter Devereux, Anglo-Norman nobleman and knight (d. 1292) William Mauduit, English nobleman and knight (d. 1268) Deaths January 17 – Walter de Clifford, English nobleman (b. 1160) February 18 – Theodoric I, margrave of Meissen (b. 1162) March 26 – Raoul de Neuville, French bishop and diplomat March 27 – Berengaria of Portugal, queen of Denmark (b. 1198) April 25 – Baruch ben Samuel (or of Mainz), German rabbi July 7 – Peter of Cornwall, English priest and writer (b. 1140) August 6 – Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order (b. 1170) September 15 – Geoffrey of Rohan, French nobleman (b. 1190) October 4 – William IV (Talvas), Norman nobleman (b. 1179) October 21 – Alix (or Alis'''), Breton noblewoman (b. 1200) October 31 – Ulrich II, German abbot and prince-bishop Adam of Perseigne, French Cistercian abbot (b. 1145) Albertet de Sestaro, French jongleur and troubadour Asukai Masatsune, Japanese waka poet and writer Gebre Meskel, ruler of the Ethiopian Empire (b. 1162) Gruffydd Fychan ap Iorwerth, Welsh knight (b. 1150) Hassan III, ruler of the Nizari Ismaili State (b. 1187) Henry I of Rodez, French nobleman and troubadour John of Tynemouth, English priest and archdeacon Najmuddin Kubra, Khwarezmian philosopher (b. 1145) Roger Bigod, English nobleman and knight (b. 1144) Roger of San Severino, archbishop of Benevento Theodore I (Laskaris'''), emperor of Nicaea (b. 1175) Walter de Lindsay, Scottish nobleman and knight References