What is 1247?
1247 was a Year starting on a [[Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar|Julian Calendar]]{{Year nav|1247}} == Births == * [[Angelo da Clareno]], Italian [[priest]] and religious leader (d. 1337) * [[Isabelle of Luxembourg]], [[countess]] of [[Flanders]] (d. 1298) * [[John II Avesnes]], [[count]] of [[Hainaut Province|Hainaut]] and [[Holland]] (d. 1304) * [[John of Montecorvino]], Italian [[Diplomacy|diplomat]] and bishop (d. 1328) * [[Philippe de Rémi]], French official and [[seneschal]] (d. 1296) * [[Rashid al-Din]], Persian [[statesman]] and historian (d. 1318) * [[Robert FitzWalter]], English [[Nobility|nobleman]] and knight (d. 1326) * [[Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia]], Castilian Jewish poet * [[Yishan Yining]], Chinese monk and [[Calligraphy|calligrapher]] (d. 1317) * [[Yolande II of Nevers]], French noblewoman (d. 1280) == Deaths == * February 12 – [[Ermesinde]], [[countess]] of Luxembourg (b. 1186) * February 16 – [[Henry Raspe]], landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204) * February 25 – [[Henry IV]], duke of Limburg (House of Limburg) * May 9 – [[Richard de Bures]], French knight and Grand Master * June 10 – [[Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada]], Spanish bishop (b. 1170) * July 8 – [[Mōri Suemitsu]], Japanese nobleman and samurai (b. 1202) * August 31 – [[Konrad I of Masovia]], Polish nobleman ([[Piast dynasty|House of Piast]]) * November 5 – [[Ogasawara Nagatsune]], Japanese samurai (b. 1179) * December 21 – [[Roger of Salisbury]], bishop of [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] and [[Wells]] * December 24 – [[Shōkū]], Japanese [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[Disciple (Christianity)|disciple]] (b. 1177) * [[Helen of Sweden]] (or '''Helena'''), Swedish princess and [[abbess]] * [[Śārṅgadeva]], Indian scholar, [[musicologist]] and writer (b. 1175) * [[Tomoe Gozen]], Japanese female samurai warrior (b. 1157) * [[William de Ferrers]], English nobleman and knight (b. 1168) [[Category:1247| ]]