In 1208 the opposing side, the House of Eric, seized the power, and the king fled the country, taking Valierus with him.

This would also explain the 22 years between the last event described in the last book ( Book 16 ) and the 1208 event described in the preface.

By 1208, the Germans were strong enough to begin operations against the Estonians, who were at that time divided into eight major and several smaller counties led by elders with limited co-operation between them.

The book Tianzhu lingqian ( Holy Lections from Indian Sources ), printed sometime between 1208 and 1224, features two different woodblock print illustrations of fishing reels being used.

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

Sverker II had been the king of Sweden between 1196 and 1208.

Relations between William de Braose and the king broke down, so that in 1208 William was using Weobley Castle to attack the king's property in Herefordshire.

Dhimitër Progoni was the third and the last Prince of Albania from the Progon Dynasty, reigning between 1208 and 1216.

The first results of his extensive studies in Oriental literature, Arabic language and history, manifested themselves in 1847, when he published a translation from Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi, born 1185, resident in South Spain between 1208 and 1217, leaving then for Egypt and visiting Mecca in 1221, dated 1224, Kitab al-mujib fi talkhis akhbar ahl al-Maghrib under the title The history of the Almohads, preceded by a sketch of the history of Spain from the time of the conquest till the reign of Yusuf ibn Tashfin, and of the history of the Almoravids, printed again in 1881 and reprinted in 1968.

* The same Pope also placed the kingdom of England under an interdict for five years between 1208 and 1213, after King John refused to accept the pope's appointee Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bohemond IV of Antioch ( or de Poitiers ) ( c. 1172 – March 1233 ), also known as the One-Eyed ( in French le Cyclops ), was ruler of the Principality of Antioch ( a crusader state ) between 1201 and 1205, again between 1208 and 1216, and again from 1219 until his death.

Raymond-Roupen of Antioch or Raimond Rupen de Poitiers ( 1199 – 1219 or 1221 / 1222 ) was Prince of Antioch between 1205 and 1208 and between 1216 and 1219 / 1221 and " Rex Iunior " of Armenia between 1199 and 1221 / 1222.

* The third book, " On bishop Albert " describes events between 1198 and 1208: the arrival of third bishop of Ikšķile, Albert of Buxhoeveden, the foundation of the Christian knightly order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, the conquest and dividing of Livonian territories between the Bishopric of Livonia and the Order, the wars with the Princes of Polotsk and Lithuanians, conquest of the Principality of Koknese and the country of Selonians.

* The fourth book, " On Estonia " describes events between 1208 and 1226: the campaigns against Estonian counties, the conquest of the Principality of Jersika, the wars with Curonians, Semigallians, Lithuanians and Princes of Pskow and Novgorod.

He was also a Warden of the Welsh Marches between 1208 and 1213.

They succeeded in bringing about a meeting between the kings Inge and Philippus, and earl Haakon, at Kvitsøy in Rogaland in the autumn of 1208.

Eric " X " of Sweden, Swedish: Erik Knutsson ; Old Norse: Eiríkr Knútsson ( c. 1180 – 10 April 1216 ) was the King of Sweden between 1208 and 1216.

Henry I the Bearded became a mediator between the warring parties, and on Christmas Day of 1208 he invited the two Greater Poland Dukes, the Archbishop of Gniezno and the Bishops of Wroclaw, Lubusz and Poznań to a meeting in Głogów.

The most commonly held view is that he was executed sometime between 1191 and 1208 in Aleppo on charges of cultivating Batini teachings and philosophy, by the order of al-Malik al-Zahir, son of Saladin.

However, Veera Ballala II himself had lost quite a bit of his territories between 1208 – 1212 to his local adversaries in Kannada country, like the Kalachuris, Seunas etc.

The University of Valladolid ( UVa ) is a Spanish public university founded in 1241 as removal of studies at the University of Palencia, founded by Alfonso VIII of Castile, between 1208 and 1212.

Vukan continues to rule as titular King in Zeta, and abdicated in ca 1208, when his son Đorđe is mentioned as titular King of Zeta, although in edicts from Studenica dated 1209, he is mentioned only as Great Prince.

* Prince Đorđe Nemanjić ( 1208 – 1243 ), Ruler of Zeta

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.

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.

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.

* Philip of Swabia, rival of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1208 )

Nearby attractions include: the Roman Bath House at Ravenglass ; the Hardknott Roman Fort, known to the Romans as Mediobogdum, at the foot of Hardknott Pass ; the watermills at Boot and Muncaster ; and Muncaster Castle, the home of the Pennington family since 1208.

It is also noteworthy that in the Chronicle of Alberic of Three Fountains, under the year 1208 ( not, be it noted 1200 ), we find this brief entry: " It is said that this year was celebrated as the fiftieth year, or the year of jubilee and remission, in the Roman Court.

Some of the most pertinent Roman Catholic expressions of this doctrine are: the profession of faith of Pope Innocent III ( 1208 ), the profession of faith of the Fourth Lateran Council ( 1215 ), the bull Unam sanctam of Pope Boniface VIII ( 1302 ), and the profession of faith of the Council of Florence ( 1442 ).

In 1197, he had supported Duke Philip of Swabia's candidature for the kingship of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, but, after Philip's death in 1208, he moved over to the side of Duke Otto of Brunswick, upon whose excommunication in 1211, he finally transferred his support to the Hohenstaufen heir, Frederick I of Sicily.

* Otto IV ( 1208 – 12 ), King of the Romans from 1208 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1209

Guerau IV de Cabrera had occupied the County of Urgell in opposition to Aurembiax, the heiress of Ermengol VIII, who had died without sons in 1208.

Between 1208 and 1210 it was occupied by the forces of Tamar of Georgia.

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

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

It was written by a poet with the pen name Cheeramakavi who, according to poet Ulloor S. Parameshwaya Aiyer, was Sree Veerarama Varman, a king of Travancore from AD 1195 to 1208.

Vendors often allocate their own code page number to a character encoding, even if it is better known by another name ( for example UTF-8 character encoding has code page numbers 1208 at IBM, 65001 at Microsoft, 4110 at SAP ).

Most authorities trace the name ' Darwen ' to the Brythonic derw " oak ", originally applied to the river ; an etymology supported by an older form of the name, Derewent ( 1208 ).

The ' Holmer ' part of the name was first recorded as Holeme in 1208 and is probably Anglo Saxon in origin.

Stapleton ’ s Old English place name elements suggest that it was an Anglo-Saxon hamlet although it was not mentioned in any land charter until 1208 when Stapleton, Bristol was still a tiny hamlet on the edge of a huge forest.

Áedh son of the mormaer of Lennox also witnessed these grants, and sometime between 1208 and 1214 Donnchadh ( as " Lord Donnchadh ") subscribed ( i. e. his name was written at the bottom, as a " witness " to ) a charter of Maol Domhnaich, Earl of Lennox, son and heir of Mormaer Ailean II, to the bishopric of Glasgow regarding the church of Campsie.