1201

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1170s  1180s  1190s  – 1200s –  1210s  1220s  1230s
Years:	1198 1199 1200 – 1201 – 1202 1203 1204

1201 Media

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  Boniface I (right) is elected as leader of the Fourth Crusade at Soissons (1840).

1201 (MCCI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• The town of Riga was chartered as a city.
• Boniface of Montferrat is elected leader of the Fourth Crusade, after the death of Theobald III of Champagne.
• Innocent III supports Otto IV as Holy Roman Emperor, against Philip of Swabia.
• The Fourth Crusade besieges Zara.

Births

• August 9 – Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
• October 9 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (died 1274)
• Theobald IV of Champagne (died 1252)
• Ladislaus III of Hungary (died 1205)
• Danylo King of Rus (died 1264)
• Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (died 1221)

Deaths

• March 21 – Absalon, Danish archbishop
• May 24 – Theobald III of Champagne
• July 29 – Agnes of Merania, queen of Philip II of France
• September 5 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (born 1161)
• Bohemund III of Antioch (born 1144)
• Joachim of Fiore, founder of monastic order of San Giovanni (born 1135)

Heads of states

• England – John I, King of England (reigned 1199 – 1216).
• France – Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223).
• Pope – Innocent III (pope from 1198 to 1216)