1217 deaths

Greek historian (1155-1217)

Arab traveller and geographer

Latin Emperor of Constantinople

King of Castile

King of Norway

Lembitu (Estonian also: Lembit, died 21 September 1217) was an ancient Estonian senior (elder) from Sakala County and military leader in the struggle against conquest of the Estonian lands by the German Livonian Brothers of the Sword at the beginning of the 13th century. He is the only Estonian pre-Crusade ruler, about whom some biographical information is known (he is mentioned only in the Livonian Chronicle of Henry).

English noblewoman who was married to King John

Count Palatine of Saxony and Landgrave of Thuringia

scholar and abbot of Cirencester

Livonian noble (died 1217)

Pretender to the Norwegian throne

Japanese poet

Marinid dynasty leader (1157–1217)

German Jewish mystic (1150–1217)

mercenary and pirate from France

French bishop

Boroqul (, also known as Boroghul, '''Boro'ul, and Borokhula'''; –1217) was one of the foremost generals of Temüjin (later Genghis Khan) during his rise to power. Raised as a foundling by Temüjin's mother Hoelun, he won great renown by saving the life of Temüjin's son and future heir Ögedei after the Battle of Khalakhaljid Sands in 1203.

Flemish nobleman

French aristocrat

French aristocrat

Anglo-Norman nobleman and Welsh baron

Sardinian ruler

French aristocrat

Imam of Yemen

Roman Catholic bishop of Chartres

Italian notary, curialist and cardinal

founder of the Drikung Kagyu lineage

Daijō Daijin

(1180-1217)

French noble

Nobleman, Politician (1140-1217), Duchy of Austria

one of "The Seven Real Taoists"

Benedictine bishop of Nocera and saint

was a Japanese poet and Buddhist monk of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods.