In 1214, Ferdinand, Infante of Portugal, and Count of Flanders desired the return of the cities of Aire-sur-la-Lys and Saint-Omer, which he had recently lost to Philip II, King of France in the Treaty of Pont-à-Vendin.

The European wars culminated in defeat at the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), which forced the king to accept an unfavourable peace with France after having failed to get help from King Mohammed el-Nasir of Morocco.

Pope Innocent III initially had supported the Welfs, but when Otto, now sole elected monarch, moved to appropriate Sicily, Innocent changed sides and accepted young Frederick II and his ally, King Philip II of France, who defeated Otto at the 1214 Battle of Bouvines.

* John of Ford ( ca. 1140 – 1214 ), English religious leader who, from 1191 until his death, served as abbot of Dorset Cistercian monastery Forde Abbey ; ally of King John

Louis IX ( 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270 ), commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death.

Louis was born on 25 April 1214 at Poissy, near Paris, the son of Prince Louis the Lion and Blanche of Castile, and baptised in La Collégiale Notre-Dame church. His grandfather was King Philip II of France.

Over the course of his reign a combination of higher taxes, unsuccessful wars that resulted in the loss of English barons ' titled possessions in Normandy following the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), and an ongoing conflict with the Pope Innocent III had made King John unpopular with many of his barons.

The conflict was decided by the Battle of Bouvines on 27 July 1214, which pitted Otto, allied to King John of England against Philip II Augustus.

William the Lion ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Uilliam mac Eanric ; Modern Gaelic: Uilleam mac Eanraig ), sometimes styled William I, also known by the nickname Garbh, " the Rough ", ( c 1143 – 4 December 1214 ) reigned as King of the Scots from 1165 to 1214.

* King William I of Scotland ( d. 1214 )

* November 11 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile ( d. 1214 )

** King Louis IX of France ( b. 1214 )

In 1214, King Philip II of France defeated the Count of Flanders in the Battle of Bouvines and forced his submission to the French crown.

The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

But in 1174, King William " the Lion " ( ruled 1165 – 1214 ) was captured by the English at the Battle of Alnwick.

In 1214 King John of England began his final campaign to reclaim Normandy from Philip II August.

Even though he was not crowned, many nobles, as well as King Alexander II of Scotland ( 1214 – 49 ) for his English possessions, gathered to give homage.

# Louis IX ( Poissy, 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270, Tunis ), King of France as successor to his father.

Ferquhard Ross helped King Alexander II of Scotland ( 1214 – 1249 ) crush a rebellion in Moray and Ross-shire.

He continued his education under King Inge at the Trondheim Cathedral School after the Earl's death in 1214.

Alfonso VIII ( 11 November 1155 – 5 October 1214 ), called the Noble or el de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo.

The town was granted its Market Charter in 1214 by King John and continues to hold a market to this day.

He spent time in England ( John of England knighted him at Clerkenwell Priory in 1213 ) before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year.

* 1214 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.

John hoped to exploit this advantage by invading himself late in 1213, but baronial discontent again delayed his invasion plans until early 1214, in what would prove to be his final Continental campaign.

John paid some of the compensation money he had promised the church, but he ceased making payments in late 1214, leaving two-thirds of the sum unpaid ; Innocent appears to have conveniently forgotten this debt for the good of the wider relationship.

In 1214 John began his final campaign to reclaim Normandy from Philip.

Nonetheless, when John left for Poitou in February 1214, many barons refused to provide military service ; mercenary knights had to fill the gaps.

A last effort on the part of John to possess himself of it, in 1214, led to the taking of Angers ( 17 June ), but broke down lamentably at the battle of La Roche-aux-Moines ( 2 July ), and the countship was attached to the crown of France.

The abbey was extended in the 1190s by Abbot John de Cella ( also known as John of Wallingford ) ( 1195 – 1214 ); as the number of monks grew from fifty to over a hundred, the abbey was extended westwards with three bays added to the nave.

* John of Wallingford ( d. 1214 ), Abbot

John de Gray ( died 18 October 1214 ) was a medieval English Bishop of Norwich, and the elected but unconfirmed Archbishop of Canterbury.

The actual nucleus of the early part of Roger ’ s Flowers of History is supposed to have been the compilation of John de Cella ( also known as John of Wallingford ), who was abbot of St Albans from 1195 to 1214, although that is inconclusive.

In 1213 Walter de Lacy wrote to John asking to return to England, and by 1214 his property in England and Wales ( which had been under the control of Engelard de Cigogné ) except for the borough and castle of Ludlow had been returned to him.

In 1214 the barons of England are believed to have met in the Abbey Church and sworn to force King John to accept the Charter of Liberties, the document which influenced the creation of the Magna Carta.

The town was first granted a market charter by King John in 1214, for a weekly market on Wednesdays, but by 1253 the market day had changed to Tuesdays.

This nucleus of the early part of Flores Historiarum is supposed to have been the compilation of John de Cella ( also known as John of Wallingford ), abbot of St Albans from 1195 to 1214, although that is inconclusive.

* 1241 – Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1214 )

* 1162 – Leonora of England, Queen of Castile ( d. 1214 )

Roger Bacon was born in Ilchester in Somerset, England, possibly in 1213 or 1214 at the Ilchester Friary.

* October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile ( d. 1214 )

* December 1 – Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1214 )

* Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile ( 1162 – 1214 ), wife of Alfonso VIII, who brought the name into the Castilian Royal Dynasty

The counts of Flanders, Boulogne, and Hainaut came together with England and the Holy Roman Empire of Germany and declared war on France and Philip II of France, a war that ended with the French victory at Bouvines in 1214.

It was a serious blow for the resistance, and in 1214 the situation became worse: Raymond was forced to flee to England, and his lands were given by the Pope to the victorious Philippe II, a stratagem which finally succeeded in interesting the king in the conflict.

After Innocent pardoned de Gray, the pope recommended his election as Bishop of Durham in 1213 ; but de Gray died during his journey back to England on 18 October 1214, at Saint-Jean-d ' Angély in Poitou.

* Isabella of England ( 1214 – 1241 ), Holy Roman Empress to Frederick II and his queen consort of Germany and of Sicily

* Leonora of England ( 1161 – 1214 ), wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile

Eleanor of England ( known in Castilian as Leonor ) ( 13 October 1162 – 31 October 1214 ) was Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile.

When John made his peace with Innocent, Eustace was allowed to return to England, and it was Eustace who formally lifted the excommuication of John on 2 July 1214.

After the king returned to England after 1214, Neville remained in royal service until at least May 1216, although without custody of the Great Seal.

Isabella of England, also called Elizabeth ( 1214 – 1 December 1241 ) was an English princess and, by marriage, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, and Queen consort of Sicily.