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1237 in France
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1237
Events from the year 1237 in France
Incumbents
Monarch – Louis IX of FranceList of All the Rulers of France, From 840 to Now https://www.thoughtco.com/rulers-of-france-840-until-2015-3861418 https://web.archive.org/web/20260114183132/https://www.thoughtco.com/rulers-of-france-840-until-2015-3861418 2026-01-14 2026-06-22 ThoughtCo en
Events
Louis IX grants Artois to his brother Robert.
Henry III, Duke of Aquitane, orders the construction of a keep in Saint-ÉmilionThe King's Keep https://www.saint-emilion-tourisme.com/en/explorer/les-incontournables/les-12-monuments/la-tour-du-roy 2026-06-22 www.saint-emilion-tourisme.com en
Louis IX purchases a relic that is supposedly the crown of thorns from Baldwin II.
Papal legate, Jean de Bernin executes a fugitive in Albi, Languedoc.
thumb|Purported Crown of Thorns purchased by Louis IX. On display in the Notre-Dame de Paris.
Births
Date unknown
Agnes of Dampierre, French noblewoman (d. 1288)
Adam de la Halle, a French trouvère, poet, and musician (d. 1288)
Deaths
April 12 – Philip II de Méréville, French priest and bishop (Birth year unknown)
Blacatz, Occitan troubadour (b. 1165)
Helinand of Froidmont, poet and chronicler, (b. 1150)Kienzle Beverly Mayne Jan 1991 Mary speaks against heresy: an unedited sermon of Hélinand for the Purification, Paris, B.N. ms lat. 14591 https://doi.org/10.1484/j.se.2.303770 Sacris Erudiri 32 2 291–308 10.1484/j.se.2.303770 0771-7776 subscription
Date unknown
John Halgren of Abbeville, French philosopher and writer
References
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