Events

• The town of Riga is chartered as a city by Bishop Albert, who landed on the site of the town with 1,500 crusaders earlier that year.
• Boniface of Montferrat is elected leader of the Fourth Crusade, after the death of Theobald III of Champagne.
• Innocent III supports Otto IV as Holy Roman Emperor, against Philip of Swabia.

Births

• August 9 ? Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
• October 9 ? Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
• May 30 ? Theobald IV of Champagne, Count of Champagne (d. 1253)
• Ladislaus III of Hungary, King of Hungary (d. 1205)
• Danylo King of Rus, 1st king of Halych-Volhynia (d. 1264)
• Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)

Deaths

• March 21 ? Absalon, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1128)
• May 24 ? Theobald III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179)
• July 29 ? Agnes of Merania, queen of France and wife of king Philip II of France
• September 5 ? Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
• Bohemund III of Antioch (b. 1144)

Heads of states

• England ? John I, King of England (reigned 1199?1216)
• France ? Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned 1180?1223)
• Pope ? Innocent III (pope 1198?1216)

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