1225
year
Year 1225 (MCCXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January – March
January 11 – Albrecht of Orlamünde, Denmark's governor of Nordalbingia, meets with numerous nobles in Segeberg and marches with his cousin Otto of Lüneburg against Henry I, Count of Schwerin, the ally of Adolf, Count of Schauerburg. Days later, Albrecht and Henry fight the Battle of Mölln in what is now the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, where Albrecht is taken as a prisoner of war.
February 11 –
The Charter of the Forest is restored to its traditional rights by King Henry III. 'Free men' are allowed to find pasture for their pigs, collect firewood, graze animals, or cut turf for fuel. At this time, however, only about 10 percent of the population is 'free', the rest are locked into service to a local landowner, some of them little more than slaves.
The Magna Carta is reaffirmed (for the third time) by Henry III, in return for issuing a property tax. It becomes the definitive version of the text.
March 3 – As the envoy of Pope Honorius III, Romanus, Cardinal-deacon of San Angelo, leaves Rome to travel to France to the court of King Louis XIII.
March 23 – Prince Richard of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III of England, and his uncle William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, depart England on with 77 warriors on an expedition to fight in Aquitaine in France, and soon land at Bordeaux, then on to capture La Rochelle. As the expedition progresses, Richard's expedition captures La Réole and Bergerac by November.
April – June
April 15 – Pope Honorius III issues the papal bull Magistro Andree canonico Palentino, granting the Andree, a former Jew who converted to Christianity, the title of canon of Palencia, with full eccleastical dignities.
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