Battle of Bouvines
Philip Augustus defeats the coalition of the emperor and England
The French king routed the army of Emperor Otto IV and the Count of Flanders, allies of King John of England. France kept Normandy and Anjou, taken from England, and the weakened John signed Magna Carta the following year.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 9 years later
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1191 Third Crusade: capture of Acre — 23 years earlier
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 22 years earlier
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 8 years earlier
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 8 years earlier
- 1219 The Mongols invade Khwarazm — 5 years later
- 1227 Fall of Western Xia and death of Genghis Khan — 13 years later
Alive at the time
- Genghis Khan (aged 52)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 49)
- John Lackland (aged 48)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 32)
- Frederick II (aged 20)
- Rumi (aged 7)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 0)
- Jayavarman VII (aged 92)
- Fibonacci (aged 44)
- Otto IV (aged 39)