* King Coloman of Halych ( 1208 – after 11 April 1241 )

* 1208 – King James I of Aragon ( d. 1276 )

# A son ( before 25 December 1208 – 1214 / 17 ).

* King James I of Aragon ( 1208 – 1276 )

During the truce of 1206 – 1208, John focused on building up his financial and military resources in preparation for another attempt to recapture Normandy.

The German crusaders enlisted newly baptised Livonian warriors to participate in their campaigns against Latgallians and Selonians ( 1208 – 1209 ), Estonians ( 1208 – 1227 ) and against Semigallians, Samogitians and Curonians ( 1219 – 1290 ).

Otto IV of Brunswick ( 1175 – May 19, 1218 ) was one of two rival kings of the Holy Roman Empire from 1198 on, sole king from 1208 on, and emperor from 1209 on.

** 1145 – 1208 Imperial Princess Shōshi / Nobuko ( 頌子内親王 )

# Philip of Swabia ( August 1177 – killed, Bamberg, 21 June 1208 ) King of Germany in 1198.

* July 27 – King James I of Aragon ( b. 1208 )

* September 24 – Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England ( b. 1208 )

* May 15 – King John of England submits to Pope Innocent III, who in turn lifts the interdict of 1208.

* July 17 – Sverker the Younger, king of Sweden 1196 – 1208 ( b. in the 1160s ) ( in the Battle of Gestilren )

This trend continued under Tukulti-Ninurta I ( 1244 – 1208 BC ) and after a hiatus, Tiglath-Pileser I ( 1115 – 1077 BC ) who conquered the Aramaeans of northern Syria, and thence he proceeded to conquer Damascus and the Canaanite / Phoenician cities of ( Byblos ), Sidon, Tyre and finally Arvad.

The elder branch of the House of Este included the dukes of Brunswick and Lüneburg ( 1208 – 1918 ) and produced England's Hanoverian monarchs.

The elder branch of the House of Este, the House of Welf, historically rendered " Guelf " or " Guelph " in English, produced dukes of Bavaria ( 1070 – 1139, 1156 – 1180 ), dukes of Saxony ( 1138 – 1139, 1142 – 1180 ), a German King ( 1198 – 1218 ), and the dukes of Brunswick and Lüneburg ( 1208 – 1918 ), later styled the " Electors of Hanover " when two branches of the family recombined in 1705.

* Stell, G. P., " Balliol, John de ( b. before 1208, d. 1268 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 Jan 2008

He was still alive on 28 May 1208 but had died by September 1210.

Sancha of Castile ( 21 September 1154 / 5 – 9 November 1208 ) was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of Castile by his second queen, Richeza of Poland, who was the daughter of Vladislav II, Duke of Silesia.

* Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford ( c. 1208 – 1275 ), also 1st Earl of Essex and Constable of England

In January 1208 the papal legate, Pierre de Castelnau, was sent to meet the ruler of the area, Count Raymond VI of Toulouse.

When exactly Gesta Danorum was written is the subject of numerous works ; however, it is generally agreed that Gesta Danorum was not finished before 1208.

Otto prevailed for a while after Philip was murdered in a private squabble in 1208 until he began to also claim Sicily.

A long civil war began ; Philip was about to win when he was murdered by the Bavarian count palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach in 1208.

When John was excommunicated in 1208, he embarked on a programme of rebuilding and enhancing several major royal castles.

The military alliance in 1208 and later conversion from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism of the Principality of Tālava was the only peaceful subjugation of the Baltic tribes during the Nordic crusades.

In 1208, Philip of Swabia, the successful candidate for becoming the next emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was assassinated, meaning that the imperial crown was given to his rival, Otto IV, the nephew of King John.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valentinianus and Anthemius ( or, less frequently, year 1208 Ab urbe condita ).

Year 1208 ( MCCVIII ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

From 1208 to 1217, the country was divided between these two factions by a peace treaty.

After Bishop Maurice de Sully's death in 1196, his successor, Eudes de Sully ( no relation ) oversaw the completion of the transepts and pressed ahead with the nave, which was nearing completion at the time of his own death in 1208.

James I the Conqueror ( Catalan: Jaume el Conqueridor, Aragonese: Chaime lo Conqueridor, Spanish: Jaime el Conquistador, Occitan: Jacme lo Conquistaire ; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276 ) was the King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276.

Frederick was subsequently under tutor Walter of Palearia, until, in 1208, he was declared of age.

Though he left for Leinster in 1207 William was recalled and humiliated at court in the autumn of 1208, while John's justiciar in Ireland Meilyr fitz Henry invaded his lands, burning the town of New Ross.

Theodore appointed Michael IV as the new Patriarch and was crowned by him in March 1208.

In 1208, after the assassination of Philip of Swabia, King of the Romans, Henry was proposed as successor by King Philip II Augustus.

It was the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare ( Chiara d ' Offreducci ), the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death.

The charter of King John ( 1208 ), which gave his burgesses of Yarmouth general liberties according to the customs of Oxford, a gild merchant and weekly hustings, was amplified by several later charters asserting the rights of the borough against Little Yarmouth and Gorleston.

Walter Map ( born 1140, died c. 1208 – 1210 ) was a medieval writer of works written in Latin.

In 1208 Frederick the 2nd of Swabia accedes to the throne of Sicily.

# Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke ( c. 1208 – 22 December 1245 ), married Maud de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford.

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