# David ( 20 March 1272 – June 1281 Stirling Castle ); buried in Dunfermline Abbey

* Alfonso of Leon, Lord of Molina ( 1203 – 1272 ).

* 1272 – Zita, Italian saint ( b. 1212 )

* Bernardo Tolomei ( 1272 – 1348 )

** Hugh IV ( 1218 – 1272 )

** Robert II ( 1272 – 1306 )

John's son, Henry III, was only 9 years old when he became king ( 1216 – 1272 ).

The reign of Edward I ( reigned 1272 – 1307 ) was rather more successful.

* Berchtold of Falkenstein ( 1244 – 1272 )

* Ulrich of Güttingen ( 1272 – 1277 )

* Heinrich of Wartenberg ( 1272 – 1274 ) Anti-Abbot

* The Chronicle of Lanercost 1272 – 1346, ed.

* January 5 – Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1272 )

* April 1 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan ( d. 1272 )

* 1272 – Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durrës in Albania and establishes an Albanian kingdom.

* 1272 – King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.

* 1272 – The city of Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1272 – Baibars invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south.

* 1272 – The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers receives the right to regulate the leather trade in London, England.

* 1272 – In astronomy, the recording of the Alfonsine tables is completed.

* 1272 – Emperor Go-Saga, Emperor of Japan ( b. 1220 )

1296 – 1272 ) makes a treaty with Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander ), king of Wilusa ( Ilium ); and another document has Wilusa swearing by Appaliuna ( Apollo ).

* June 5 – Amalric, Prince of Tyre ( b. c. 1272 )

* June 25 – Frederick III of Sicily ( b. 1272 )

It was also during his exile on Sado, in 1272, that he inscribed the first Gohonzon ( 御本尊 ).

It was probably written during the reign of Edward I ( reigned 1272 – 1307 ), though the oldest surviving manuscript dates to 1338.

It was probably written during the reign of Edward I ( reigned 1272 – 1307 ), though the oldest surviving manuscript dates to 1338.

The west tower was probably built during the reign of Henry III ( 1216 – 1272 ) to serve a defensive as well as religious role, and is Rugby's oldest building.

The oldest known source for the expression " baker's dozen " dates to the 13th century in one of the earliest English statutes, instituted during the reign of Henry III ( 1216 – 1272 ), called the Assize of Bread and Ale.

It is likely that Giles was a student of Thomas Aquinas during the period between 1269 and 1272.

The castle's raison d ' être disappeared during the reign of Edward I ( 1272 – 1307 ).

The earliest recorded Shrovetide ball game comes during the High Middle Ages ( 1066 – 1272 ) from the cleric William Fitzstephen in his description of London Descriptio Nobilissimi Civitatis Londoniae c. 1174-1183.

The princes of Bribir from the Šubić family became particularly influential during the time of Pavao Šubić Bribirski ( 1272 – 1312 ) who asserted control over large parts of Dalmatia, Slavonia and Bosnia during an internal conflict between the Árpád and Anjou dynasties.

In 1272 John died leaving a young son, Richard ; during his minority the castle was controlled by Roger Mortimer of Wigmore.

Robert Wishart ( consecrated 1272, d. 1316 ) was conspicuous for his patriotism during the Scottish War of Independence from England, and was the close friend of William Wallace and Robert Bruce.

The Drum Tower was built in 1272 during the reign of Kublai Khan, at which time it stood at the very heart of the Yuan capital Dadu.

Edward I was fighting in the Ninth Crusade when he acceded to the throne in 1272 ; he was crowned soon after his return in 1274.

King Edward I ( 1272 – 1307 ) succeeded his father while on Crusade in the Holy Land.

At the death of Henry III, 16 November 1272, the Earl took the lead in swearing fealty to Edward I, who was then in Sicily on his return from the Crusade.

In the September 7, 2002 issue of CounterPunch, columnist Alexander Cockburn authored an opinion column titled " The Tenth Crusade " in which he numbered the War on Terrorism to follow nine medieval Crusades between 1095 and 1272, omitting from his count the Alexandrian Crusade of 1365 and the Crusade of Nicopolis of 1396.

On Crusade in 1272, she had De Re Militari by Vegetius translated for Edward.