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The Nasrides dynasty that will rule Granada until 1492 comes to power in the person of the former Almoravid prince Abu Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn Nasr al-Ahmar, 29, who will rule what the Arabs call Gharnata until 1273 as Mohammed I. He stiffens Muslim resistance to Christian Spain.
Verona's Ezzelino IV da Romano succeeds to power at age 36. He will be a powerful opponent of the papacy and will lay waste northeastern Italy.
Denmark's Valdemar I has his son Erik crowned king and makes Erik's brothers Abel and Kristoffer dukes, giving South Jutland to Abel and the islands of Lolland and Falster to Kristoffer (see 1241).
Welsh-born nobleman Ranulf de Blundeville, 6th earl of Chester, earl of Lincoln, vicomte de Bayeux, and vicomte d'Avranches dies at Wallingford, Oxfordshire, October 28 at age 60, the last of the Norman Conquest's great feudal barons. His nephew John the Scot, 25, earl of Huntington, receives the grant of the earldom of Chester, but will die without heirs in 1237; the earldom will revert to the crown in 1246.
