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 )

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.

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

John's attempt to defeat Philip in 1214 failed due to the French victory over John's allies at the battle of Bouvines.

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

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.

Count Renaud of Boulogne joined the imperial side at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, and was defeated by Philip II of France.

At his family's fall from Royal favour John de Braose was initially hidden on Gower and spent some time in the care of his uncle Giles de Braose, Bishop of Hereford, but finally in 1214 John and his younger brother Philip were taken into custody.

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

Valdemar II of Denmark raided and occupied Hamburg in 1201 and in 1214.

His son, Alexander II, succeeded him as king, reigning from 1214 to 1250.

* Rostislav II of Kiev ( d. 1214 )

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

# Isabella ( 1214 – 1241 ), the wife of Emperor Frederick II, by whom she had issue.

In 1214 Bogislaw II, Duke of Pomerania, made a donation of a village known as Koszalice / Cossalitz by Chełmska Hill in Kołobrzeg Land ( una villa ... Cussalitz iuxta Cholin in terra Cholbergensis ) to the Premonstratensian ( Norbertine ) monastery in Białoboki ( Belbuck ) near Trzebiatów ( Treptow an der Rega ).

# Mathilde ( c. 1200 – December 22, 1267 ), married in Aachen in 1212 Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine ( d. 1214 ), married on December 6, 1214 Floris IV, Count of Holland

# Ysabeau ( Elizabeth ) ( d. October 23, 1272 ), married in Leuven March 19, 1233 Count Dietrich of Cleves, Lord of Dinslaken ( c. 1214 – 1244 ), married 1246 Gerhard II, Count of Wassenberg ( d. 1255 )

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.

The status of the successive heads of this clan as the " senior inaugural official " seems confirmed by records of the inauguration ceremonies of Alexander II ( reigned 1214 – 1249 ) and Alexander III ( reigned 1249 – 1286 ).

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

After Philip's murder in 1209, he " said and sang " in support of Otto of Brunswick against the papal candidate Frederick of Hohenstaufen ; and only when Otto's usefulness to Germany had been shattered by the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ) did he turn to the rising star of Frederick II, now the sole representative of German majesty against pope and princes.

* 1214 – Louis IX of France ( d. 1270 )

The Battle of Bouvines, which took place on 27 July 1214, was a medieval battle ending the twelve year old Angevin-Flanders War that was fundamental in the early development of France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy.

Category: 1214 in France

* 1214 — France defeats English and Imperial German forces at the Battle of Bouvines.

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.

Another, Louis IX " the Saint " of France or Saint Louis ( 1214 – 1270 ), married Marguerite of Provence.

In 1214 when John set an expedition into France, he wanted to establish Eleanor as his puppet duchess.

* Henry I Clément, called the " Little Marshal ", Lord of Le Mez and of Argentan ( 1170 – 1214 ), Marshal of France in 1204

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

* Louis IX of France ( 1214 – 1270 ).

* Saint Louis ( 1214 – 1270 ), king of France

From March to October 1214, Neville was in France with the king.