* House of Bourbon ( 1268 – 1503 )

* 1268 – The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.

1200 – Trebnitz, 6 / 30 December 1268 ), Abbess of Trebnitz.

* 1268 – Lord Borchard de Herle, English diplomat ( d. 1305 )

To the north were the three other crusader states founded during and after the First Crusade, the County of Edessa ( 1097 – 1144 ), the Principality of Antioch ( 1098 – 1268 ), and the County of Tripoli ( 1109 – 1289 ), which were all independent but closely tied to Jerusalem.

King Philip IV of France ( 1268 – 1314 ) In 1305, the new Pope Clement V, based in France, sent letters to both the Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay and the Hospitaller Grand Master Fulk de Villaret to discuss the possibility of merging the two Orders.

* 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.

* 1252 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia ( d. 1268 )

* 1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.

His son Romano ( 1268 – 1327 ), called Romanello, was Royal Vicar of Rome in 1326, and inherited the countship of Soana through his marriage with Anastasia de Montfort, Countess of Nola.

Similarly, he accompanied Cardinal Ottobuono Fieschi, the future Pope Adrian V, to England in 1265 – 1268 to suppress a rebellion by a group of barons against King Henry III of England.

Pope Clement IV ( 23 November 1190 / 1200 – 29 November 1268 ), born Gui Faucoi called in later life le Gros ( Guy Foulques the Fat ; ), was Pope from 5 February 1265 until his death.

* Papal election, 1268 – 1271

* July 15 – King Eric II of Norway ( b. c. 1268 )

* March 25 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia ( d. 1268 )

* 1268 – King Stephen V of Hungary launches a war against Bulgaria.

* 1268 – The county of Wernigerode become a vassal state of the margrave of Brandenburg.

* 1268 – New election procedures for the election of the doge are established in Venice in order to reduce the influence of powerful individual families.

* 1268 – Pope Clement IV dies ; the following papal election fails to choose a new pope for almost three years, precipitating the later creation of stringent rules governing the electoral procedures.

* 1268 – October 29 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.

* 1268 – The House of Bourbon first rises to prominence with the marriage of Robert, Count of Clermont to King Louis IX of France's daughter, Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress to the lordship of Bourbon.

* 1268 – The Battle of Xiangyang, a six-year battle between the Chinese Song Dynasty and the Mongol forces of Kublai Khan, begins in what is today Hubei.

From 1268 to 1273, Kublai blockaded the Yangzi River with his navy and besieged Xiangyang, the last obstacle in his way to invading the rich Yangzi River basin.

Kublai instigated Baraq to attack him in 1268.

Nevertheless, Kublai Khan sent him a grant in 1268, in an effort to end the conflict and focus on Kaidu.

In 1268, when a group of princes operating in Central Asia on Kublai's behalf mutinied and arrested two sons of the Qaghan ( Great Khan ), they sent them to Mengu-Timur.

By the time the instructors arrived in Tehran in Moharram, 1268 / November, 1851, Amir Kabir had already been dismissed, and it fell to Daʾud Khan to receive them.

of the Hōjō clan was the eighth shikken ( officially regent, but de facto ruler of Japan ) of the Kamakura shogunate ( reigned 1268 – 84 ), known for leading the Japanese forces against the invasion of the Mongols and for spreading Zen Buddhism and by extension Bushido among the warrior class.

The Mongols had sent a threatening letter and emissaries to Japan in January 1268, after discussing the letter, Tokimune decided to have the emissaries sent back with no answer.

In the ten seasons he played in Japan, Matsui totalled 1268 games played, 4572 AB, 1390 hits, 901 runs, 332 home runs, 889 RBIs, a. 304 batting average, and a. 582 slugging percentage.

The latter continued to act as banker for the king, since a record is found of acknowledgment of a debt of 15, 000 sous, paid by Benveniste to the bishop of Barcelona when proceeding on an embassy to France on 1 January 1254 ; and as late as 1 February 1268, the dues of the Jews of Girona were assigned to Benveniste.

This Council decreed that the cardinal electors must meet within ten days of the pope's death, and that they must remain in seclusion until a pope has been elected ; this was prompted by the three-year Sede Vacante following the death of Pope Clement IV in 1268.

* 1268 – May 18 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to Baibars after the Siege of Antioch ; Baibars ' destruction of the city of Antioch was so great as to permanently negate the city's importance.

At the Battle of Tagliacozzo, on 23 August 1268, it appeared he might win the day ; but a sudden charge of Charles ' reserve discomfited his army and he was forced to flee to Rome.

The Doge's Palace, Venice | Doge's Palace complex. While doges had great temporal power at first, after 1268, the doge was constantly under strict surveillance: he had to wait for other officials to be present before opening dispatches from foreign powers ; he was not allowed to possess any property in a foreign land.

Dogen's notable successor was Keizan ( 瑩山 ; 1268 – 1325 ), founder of Sōji-ji Temple and author of the Record of the Transmission of Light ( 傳光錄 Denkōroku ), which traces the succession of Zen masters from Siddhārtha Gautama up to Keizan's own day.

In November of the same year the Church excommunicated him ; but his fleet won a victory over that of Charles ; and in July 1268, Conradin himself entered with immense enthusiasm in Rome.

Baibars finally took the city in 1268, and all of northern Syria was quickly lost ; twenty-three years later, Acre was taken, and the Crusader states ceased to exist.

In the colophons of the Malatia Gospel of 1268 ( MS No. 10675 ), Armenian manuscript illuminator Toros Roslin described the brutal sack of Antioch by Baibars: "... at this time great Antioch was captured by the wicked king of Egypt, and many were killed and became his prisoners, and a cause of anguish to the holy and famous temples, houses of God, which are in it ; the wonderful elegance of the beauty of those that were destroyed by fire is beyond the power of words.

In 1268 Master Hugh Revel complained that the area, which had previously been home to around 10, 000 people, was deserted and the order's property in the Kingdom of Jerusalem was producing little income ; he also noted that by this point there were only 300 of the order's brothers left in the east.

Eric Magnusson ( 1268 – 15 July 1299 ) ( Old Norse: Eiríkr Magnússon ; Norwegian: Eirik Magnusson ) was the King of Norway from 1280 until 1299.

Other recorded spellings include Leech, 1264 ; Leeche, 1268 ; Leghthe, 1305 ; Leght, 1417 ; Lech, 1451 ; Legh, 16th century.

The Prince of Antioch ruled the Principality of Antioch of the Crusader States, founded by Christian princes in 1098 when the First Crusade took the city ; it disappeared with the departure of the last crusader of in 1268.

These " new " Lusignans, who were also descendants of Robert Guiscard, remained in control of Cyprus until 1489 ; in Jerusalem ( or, more accurately, Acre ), they ruled from 1268 until the fall of the city in 1291, after an interlude ( 1228 – 1268 ) during which the Hohenstaufen dynasty officially held the kingdom.

Dynastically, he established two notable Capetian Houses: the House of Anjou ( which he created by bestowing the County of Anjou upon his brother, Charles ( 1227 – 1285 )), and the House of Bourbon ( which he established by bestowing Clermont on his son Robert ( 1256 – 1317 ) in 1268, before marrying the young man to the heiress of Bourbon, Beatrix ( 1257 – 1310 )); the first House would go on to rule Sicily, Naples, and Hungary, suffering many tragedies and disasters on the way ; the second would eventually succeed to the French thone, collecting Navarre along the way.

His chief topics are the iniquities of the friars, and the defence of the secular clergy of the University of Paris against their encroachments ; and he delivered a series of eloquent and insistent poems ( 1262, 1263, 1268, 1274 ) exhorting princes and people to take part in the Crusades.