Around 1218 his father arranged his marriage with Princess Anna, daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia ; this union with the royal Přemyslid dynasty allowed Henry II to participate actively in international politics.

* Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Flanders ( 1157 – 1218 ), daughter of Afonso Henriques and wife of Philip of Alsace

He married Margaret de Clare, ( daughter of the Earl of Hertford who was also 3rd Earl of Gloucester ( a 1218 creation, extinct in 1314 )).

* 1217 / 1218 Eufrozyna, daughter of Odon, duke of Greater Poland ( she was his sister ´ s sister in law and half-cousin through Miezsko III )

After the death of his first wife, he married again at Tripoli in January 1218 Melisende de Lusignan ( c. 1200 – after 1249 ), Princess of Cyprus, daughter of Amalric II of Jerusalem and his second wife Isabella of Jerusalem.

He married in 1194 Teresa of Portugal ( 1156 – 1218 ), the daughter of Alphonso I of Portugal, and Maud of Savoy, and the widow of Philip, Count of Flanders.

1218: Maria Laskarina, a daughter of the Emperor Theodore I Lascaris of Nicaea and Anna Angelina, their children included

1252 ), 1218, daughter of Mstislav the Bold

In 1238, he married Margaret de Quincy ( born 1218 ), daughter of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester and Helen of Galloway.

He had married Alice of Champagne ( daughter of Henry and Isabel ) and had only one son, Henry I ( 1218 – 1253 ).

His wife, Mor Ní Briain, was a daughter of King Domnall Mór Ua Briain of Thomond, died in 1218.

* Louis II ( 1191 – 1218 ), son, married Ada, daughter of Count Dirk VII of Holland, also Count of Holland 1203-1207, followed by his brothers as guardians of his minor nephews Louis III and Arnold IV:

** Arnold III ( 1218 – 1221 ), Count of Rieneck, married Adelaide, daughter of Duke Henry I of Brabant

Infanta Theresa of Portugal ( Coimbra, c. 1157 ; – Veurne, May 6, 1218 ; or ), was a Portuguese infanta ( princess ), being the third daughter of Portuguese 1st King Afonso Henriques and Maud of Savoy.

When Otto died in 1218, Fredrick became the undisputed ruler, and in 1220 was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

He became Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals in 1218 or 1219.

The Zähringer dynasty ended with the death of Berchtold V in 1218, and their cities subsequently became reichsfrei ( essentially a city-state within the Holy Roman Empire ), while the dukes of Kyburg competed with the house of Habsburg over control of the rural regions of the former Zähringer territory.

Zurich became an Imperial immediacy ( Reichsunmittelbar or Imperial free city ) in 1218 with the extinction of the main line of the Zähringer family and attained a status comparable to statehood.

In 1218 the burgraviate passed to Frederick's younger son Conrad I, he thereby became the ancestor of the Franconian Hohenzollern branch, which acquired the Electorate of Brandenburg in 1415.

Under Ivan Asen II ( 1218 – 1241 ), Bulgaria once again became a regional power, occupying Belgrade and Albania.

After the extinction of the Zähringer line in 1218 it became a free imperial city under the Holy Roman Emperor.

While the junior line that first assumed the title Duke of Zähringen, a cadet branch of the House of Baden, became extinct in 1218, the senior line persists and currently uses the title Margrave of Baden, Duke of Zähringen.

This latter duke was the founder of the city of Bern, and when he died in February 1218 the main line of the Zähringen family became extinct.

The town became the seat of the local assize during the early 13th century ( though assizes were also held at Brentwood ) and by 1218 was recognised as the county town of Essex, a position it has retained to the present day.

It became part of the duchy of Burgundia Minor, which was held from the emperors by the house of Zähringen ( which went extinct in 1218 ).

The canton of Zurich consists of lands acquired by the capital Zurich after it became reichsfrei in 1218, especially after the revolution of the guilds in 1336.

The town of Zürich was part of the Thurgau until it became reichsunmittelbar in 1218.

In 1218 he became the chief ( bettō ) of the military office ( samurai dokoro ).

# Henry I of Cyprus ( 1217 – 1253 ), namesake of his maternal grandfather, who became King of Cyprus upon his father's death in 1218, with his mother acting as regent.

# Henry I of Lusignan ( 1217 – 1253 ), namesake of his maternal grandfather, who became King of Cyprus upon his father's death in 1218, with his mother acting as regent.

When his father Hugh I died on January 10, 1218, the 8-month-old Henry became king.

In 1218 al-Kamil led the defense during the Siege of Damietta against the Fifth Crusade, and later that year became sultan when his father died.

In 1218, England became the first European nation to require Jews to wear a marking badge.

After the destruction of the Kara-Khitan realm by the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1218, the Kara-Khitans became absorbed into the Mongol empire.

When Hugh I died in 1218, Philip became regent for Hugh's son Henry I of Cyprus, Philip's nephew.

* The northern French city of Troyes issues its first recorded life annuities, confirming the trend of consolidation of local public debts initiated in 1218 by the neighboring city of Reims.

* The Flemish town of Douai emits the first recorded redeemable annuities in medieval Europe, confirming a trend of consolidation of local public debt stated in 1218 in Rheims.

* In Ghent, first recorded instance of emission of life annuities by a town in the Low Countries, this event confirms a trend of consolidation of local public debt in north-western Europe initiated in 1218 by Rheims.

The first podestà-troubadour was Rambertino Buvalelli, possibly the first native Italian troubadour, who was podestà of Genoa between 1218 and 1221.

To history proper belongs the Song of the Albigensian Crusade, which, in its present state, is composed of two poems one tacked to the other: the first, containing the events from the beginning of the crusade till 1213, is the work of a cleric named William of Tudela, a moderate supporter of the crusaders ; the second, from 1213 to 1218, is by a vehement opponent of the enterprise.

Its oldest components are Station Road ( known as Stoney Lane since Norman times ) and Flaxleye Farm, first referenced in 1218.

Over the entrance is a modern window showing the figures of the cathedral founders of 1048 and 1218 ( bishops Geoffroy de Montbray and Hugues de Morville ); in the centre is the figure of Saint Ereptiole, believed to have built the first church in Coutances.

Several of N & W's famous steam locomotives, including J class # 611 and A class # 1218 were used in steam excursion trip services into the 1990s under the leadership of Norfolk Southern's first president, Robert B. Claytor.

Manuel I Megas Komnenos ( Greek: Μανουήλ Α ΄ Μέγας Κομνηνός, Manouēl I Megas Komnēnos ) ( c. 1218 – March 1263 ), Emperor of Trebizond from 1238 to 1263, surnamed the " Great Captain ", was the second son of Alexios I, the first emperor of Trebizond, and Theodora Axuchina.

The original town probably only occupied the summit of the hill, but it was probably extended southwards in the 13th century, as the town received a grant in 1218 of murage, a toll to build town walls, the first in England.

Ralph of Coggeshall ( d. after 1227 ), English chronicler, was at first a monk and afterwards sixth abbot ( 1207 – 1218 ) of Coggeshall, an Essex foundation of the Cistercian order.

After Naré Maghann Konaté's death ( c. 1218 ), his first son, Dankaran Toumani Keita, assumed the throne despite Konaté's wishes that the prophecy be respected.

This office has always been entrusted to a Friar of the Order of Preachers since its first institution with St. Dominic by Pope Honorius III in 1218.

The beautiful medieval town, which remains well preserved to this day, was mentioned as a city for the first time in 1218, after Count Hugo von Montfort built the " Schattenburg ", a castle which still is the major landmark of Feldkirch.

Kaarst was mentioned for the first time as ' Karlesforst ' in the year 1218.