1240 deaths

Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)

5th monarch of the Delhi Sultanate

Prince of Gwynedd from 1199 to 1240

French theologian, historian, priest and philosopher (died 1240)

Empress Consort of Nicaea

German Cistercian, author

Queen consort of Bohemia (c. 1180 – 1240)

Langrave of Thuringia and Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

saint from Catalonia in Spain

Norwegian nobleman and claimant to the royal throne

German aristocrat

medieval English countess

Patriarch of Constantinople

Czech princess

Ecumenical Patriarch in 1240

Archbishop of Canterbury and saint

French mathematician

Irish saint

Marinid Sheikh (1196–1240)

Medieval Turkish statesman

Lady of Guadalajara

English nobleman and royal official

French crusader

leader of the Babai revolt (died 1240)

Minister General of the Friars Minor

Roman Catholic archbishop

Polish princess member of the House of Piast

Lord of Oswestry

Japanese samurai of the early Kamakura period; 1st Rensho of the Kamakura shogunate

2nd Earl of Lincoln, 7th Baron of Halton Castle, 5th Lord of Bowland and Constable of Chester

French bishop

Al-Malik Al-Mujahid Asad ad-Din Shirkuh II or Shirkuh II, was the Kurdish Ayyubid emir of Homs from 1186 to 1240. He was the son of An-Nasir Muhammad ibn Shirkuh, grandson of Shirkuh and first cousin once removed of Saladin. His domains also included Palmyra and ar-Rahba. Al-Mujahid became emir at the age of thirteen when his father died unexpectedly in Homs on 4 March 1186 (10 Dhu’l Hijja 581).

1182 - 1240

Castilian nobleman