Events from the year 1237 in France
Incumbents
Monarch – Louis IX of France
Events
Louis IX grants Artois to his brother Robert. Henry III, Duke of Aquitane, orders the construction of a keep in Saint-Émilion Louis IX purchases a relic that is supposedly the crown of thorns from Baldwin II. Papal legate, Jean de Bernin executes a fugitive in Albi, Languedoc.
Births
Date unknown
Agnes of Dampierre, French noblewoman (d. 1288) Adam de la Halle, a French trouvère, poet, and musician (d. 1288)
Deaths
April 12 – Philip II de Méréville, French priest and bishop (Birth year unknown) Blacatz, Occitan troubadour (b. 1165) Helinand of Froidmont, poet and chronicler, (b. 1150)
Date unknown
John Halgren of Abbeville, French philosopher and writer
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