The novel depicts the " Norse invasion of Scotland " ( 1262 – 1263, part of the Scottish – Norwegian War ) and the Battle of Largs.

* 1222 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier ( d. 1262 )

At this time he was awarded WPA Project Number 1262 – an opportunity to oversee a group of artists creating murals and to supervise their painting for the Harlem Hospital.

* 1218 – 1261 / 1262: Conrad I / III ( brother of, also count of Zollern )

* 1262 – 1297: Frederick III ( son of )

# Philip III ( 1 May 1245 – 5 October 1285 ), married firstly to Isabella of Aragon in 1262 and secondly to Maria of Brabant in 1274

* 27 October – Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester ( executed ; b. 1262 )

* August 16 – John II, Emperor of Trebizond ( b. c. 1262 )

* August 4 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier ( d. 1262 )

* December 30 – Bernard Gui, inquisitor ( b. 1261 or 1262 )

* 1262 – Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1262 – The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.

* 1262 – King Mindaugas of Lithuania renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.

* 1262 – Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, " Le Jeu de la Feuillee ".

* 1262 – King Mengrai of the Lannathai kingdom in present day Thailand founds the city of Chiang Rai as the kingdom's first capital.

* 1262 – Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint ; he is best known for authoring the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day in the musical Godspell.

Charles I ( 21 March 1226 – 7 January 1285 ), known also as Charles of Anjou, was the King of Sicily by conquest from 1266, though he had received it as a papal grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers of 1282.

* August 27 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany ( b. 1262 )

* July 10 – Ladislaus IV, king of Hungary since 1272 ( b. 1262 )

# John, Lord of Valencia de Campos ( March or April 1262 – 25 June 1319 ).

Morta ( baptized c. 1252 by the bishop of Chełmno, died c. 1263 ) was the Grand Duchess of Lithuania ( until 1253 ) and later Queen of Lithuania ( 1253 – 1262 ).

# Christina ( 1234 – 1262 ).

* King Ladislaus IV ( August 1262 – 10 July 1290 )

In 1262, after a long struggle with the ruling bishops, its citizens gained the status of free imperial city.

In 1262, Mangrai moved the capital from Ngoenyang to the newly-founded Chiangrai – naming the city after himself.

The area fell under Byzantine rule after 1262, forming part of the Despotate of the Morea.

Hulagu returned to his lands by 1262, after the succession was finally settled with his brother Kublai Khan established as Great Khan.

William II of Villehardouin took it in 1248, on honourable terms, after three years of siege ; in 1259 William was captured by the Greeks after the battle of Pelagonia and in 1262 it was retroceded to Michael VIII Palaiologos as part of William's ransom.

A half dozen date from the 12th century, while most are from after 1262.

The office lingered on for a few years in the transitional period after 1262, after which it was replaced with a lögmaðr.

It has been said that after the death of Imru ' al-Qais the Greeks made a statue of him on his tomb that was still seen in 1262 AD, and that his tomb is nowadays located in Hızırlık, Ankara.

* Isabel de Valence ( died 5 October 1305 ), married before 1280 John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings ( 6 May 1262 – 10 February 1313 ).

Al-Malik al-Ashraf Salāh al-Dīn Khalil ibn Qalawūn (); ( b. c. 1262, Cairo – d. 14 December 1293, Kom Turuga ) was the eighth Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 1290 until his assassination in December, 1293.

The clergy suffered more than the laity under a prolonged interdict, and in 1262 Pope Urban IV legalized the disputed marriage and legitimized Dinis ( future king Dinis ), the king's eldest son.

Ladislas IV the Cuman (,,, ) ( 5 August 1262 – 10 July 1290 ), also known as László IV, King of Hungary ( 1272 – 1290 ).

Another exemplar was Zhao Mengfu ( 1254 – 1322 ), a former official of the Song Dynasty who served under the Mongol administration of the Yuan and whose wife Guan Daosheng ( 1262 – 1319 ) was also a painter-poet and calligrapher.

In 1992 NTH had 7627 master and doctoral students and 1591 employees ; it graduated 1262 chartered engineers ( master level ), 52 chartered architects, and 92 Dr. Ing.

* Infante Fernando of Portugal ( 1260 ) ( 1260 – 1262 ), son of Afonso III of Portugal

* Jean III Clément, Lord of Le Mez and of Argentan ( died 1262 ), Marshal of France in 1214

* Henri II Clément, Lord of Le Mez and Argentan ( died 1265 ), Marshal of France in 1262

Bolesław the Pious () ( 1224 / 27 – 14 April 1279 ) was a Duke of Greater Poland during 1239 – 1247 ( according to some historians during 1239 – 1241 sole Duke of Ujście ), Duke of Kalisz during 1247 – 1249, Duke of Gniezno during 1249 – 1250, Duke of Gniezno-Kalisz during 1253 – 1257, Duke of whole Greater Poland and Poznań during 1257 – 1273, in 1261 ruler over Ląd, regent of the Duchies of Masovia, Płock and Czersk during 1262 – 1264, ruler over Bydgoszcz during 1268 – 1273, Duke of Inowrocław during 1271 – 1273, and Duke of Gniezno-Kalisz since 1273 until his death.

In 1262 Leo married Keran ( Kir Anna ), the daughter of Prince Hetoum of Lampron.

Reddish is recorded as Redich ( 1205, 1212 ), Redych, Radich ( 1226 ), Radish, Rediche ( 1262 ), Redditch ( 1381 ), Redwyche, Radishe and Reddishe ( 16th century ).

Since 1622, the Warsaw arms have been rendered as a mermaid with sword and shield in hand, representing Melusina from the River Vistula ( Wisła ), who in legend led Duke Bolesław II of Masovia ( 1262 – 1313 ) to the appropriate site ( a fishing village ) and ordered him to found the city, in about 1294.

Bernard Gui (; 1261 or 1262 – 30 December 1331 ), also known as Bernardo Gui or Bernardus Guidonis, was an inquisitor of the Dominican Order in the Late Middle Ages during the Medieval Inquisition, Bishop of Lodève, and one of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages.

Arthur II ( 2 July 1262 – 27 August 1312 ), of the House of Dreux, was Duke of Brittany from 1305 to his death.

In the 1260s followed Wollin ( 1260 ), Ueckermünde, Wolgast, probably already Gützkow, Pölitz ( 1260 ), Greifenberg ( 1262 ), Gollnow, probably already Usedom, Penkun, Tribsees ( Principality of Rügen, before 1267 ) and Naugard ( by the bishop of Cammin, before 1268 ).

# Siemowit I of Masovia ( c. 1213 – 24 June 1262 ), succeeded eldest brother as Duke of Masovia ( 1248 – 1262 )