* Sancho, Count of Provence ( 1161 – 1223 ), married firstly Ermensinda of Rocabertí ; and secondly Sancha Núñez de Lara, by whom he had a son and a daughter.

* Jeanne ( 1200 – 1223 ), married Raoul II of Lusignan ( died 1250 ), Seigneur d ' Issoudun and Count of Eu.

She married in 1223 Henry of Antioch, brother of Bohemund V of Antioch and of Plaisance, with whom she had Hugh I of Jerusalem ( Hugh III of Cyprus ).

However, the marriage – and thus one avenue of Capetian aggrandisement – failed: the couple produced only two daughters, and suffered marital discord ; driven to secure the future of the House, Louis thus divorced Aliénor ( who went on to marry Henry II of England ( 1133 – 1189 ), and be known to English history as Eleanor of Aquitaine ), and married twice more before finally securing a son, Philippe Dieu-donné (" The God-Given "), who would continue the House as Philip II Augustus ( 1165 – 1223 ), and break the power of the Angevins – the family of Aliénor and Henry II – in France.

Eleanor was probably born in 1223 ; Matthew Paris describes her as being " jamque duodennem " ( already twelve ) when she arrived in the Kingdom of England for her marriage.

Wincenty Kadłubek ( Vincent Kadlubo, 1160 – 1223 ) used for the first time the original Latin term res publica in the context of Poland in his " Chronicles of the Kings and Princes of Poland.

In 1223, Francis arranged for the first Christmas manger scene.

Philip II Augustus (; 21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223 ) was the last King of the Franks from 1180 to 1190, and the first King of France from 1190 until his death.

Volga Bulgars preserved their national identity well into the 13th century by repelling the first Mongol attacks in 1223.

Saint Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the first nativity scene in 1223 ( a " living " one ) intending thereby to cultivate the worship of Christ, having been inspired by his recent visit to the Holy Land where he had been shown Jesus's traditional birthplace.

St. Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the first nativity scene in 1223 at Greccio, Italy, in an attempt to place the emphasis of Christmas upon the worship of Christ rather than upon secular materialism and gift giving.

A first attempt to register its constitution was made under the reign of King Sancho II ( 1223 – 1248 ).

The current town was first mentioned in 1223 as Alttorf.

In 1223 we have the first mention of an exclusively jousting event, the ' Round Table ' held in Cyprus by John d ' Ibelin, lord of Beirut.

The first written record cites the founding of St Bartholomew's Church in 1223 on the site of the present 18th century parish church, and over the next two centuries there were around 20 homes in the village.

When the Mongols first approached Russia in 1223, he sent a small unit against them, but it arrived too late to take part in the disastrous Battle of the Kalka River.

Stotzheim was first mentioned documentarily in 1223.

The church at Immighausen was first mentioned in 1223 as being a chapel among the Schaaken Monastery's estates.

The first raid by Wokou on record occurred in the summer of 1223, on the south coast of Goryeo Korea.

Greccio was the place where, in December 1223, St. Francis devised the first living crib ( in Italian: presepe ).

Beromünster is first mentioned in 1223 as villa Beronensis.

The fortified church, built entirely of stone, was first referred to in a document dated November 20, 1223, which mentioned its donation to the abbey.

Nesvizh was first documented in 1223, later becoming a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

* Afonso II ( 1211 – 1223 )-Chronica do muito alto e muito esclarecido principe D. Afonso II, Terceiro Rey de Portugal, first published 1727, Miguel Lopes Ferreira editor, Lisbon, Ferreyriana online

* Sancho II ( 1223 – 1248 )-Chronica do muito alto e muito esclarecido principe D. Sancho II, Quarto Rey de Portugal, first published 1728, Miguel Lopes Ferreira editor, Lisbon, Ferreyriana.

The archbishops held the important prerogative of the consecration of the kings of France — a privilege which they exercised ( except in a few cases ) from the time of Philippe II Augustus ( anointed 1179, reigned 1180 – 1223 ) to that of Charles X ( anointed 1825 ).

In 1223, Philippe II died and was succeeded by Louis VIII.

Boulogne passed under nominal royal control in 1223 when it was given to Philip II's son Philippe Hurepel.

* 1180 – 1223, Philip II Augustus, the God-Given ( Philippe II Auguste Dieudonné )

In 1223, King Valdemar and his eldest son were abducted by count Henry I, Count of Schwerin ( also known as Heinrich der Schwarze ), and held captive in Castle Dannenberg for several years.

After the capture of Bethlehem by Saladin in 1187, the bequest of the by then deceased Count was honoured and the Bishop of Bethlehem duly took up residence in the hospital of Panthenor, Clamecy in 1223.

Isernia was destroyed by the Saracens in 800, sacked by Markward of Anweiler, Count of Molise, in 1199, and set on fire in 1223 by the soldiers of Frederick II.

*# in 1223 to Count Poppo VII of Henneberg ( d. 1245 )

In 1223, the fates were reversed when Henry I, Count of Schwerin ( a. k. a. Heinrich der Schwarze ) abducted Valdemar and his eldest son and imprisoned them in the Waldemarturm of Dannenberg Castle.

In 1223 the castle was recaptured by William Marshal the younger, Earl of Pembroke, who rebuilt the castle in its present form.

In September 1223 near Samara an advance guard of Genghis Khan's army under command of Uran, son of Subutai Bahadur, entered Volga Bulgaria but was defeated in the battle of Samara Bend.

Frederick inherited it all nevertheless, but died a year later and it went to his son by Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla ( 1150 – 1223 ), daughter of Mieszko III the Old, duke of Greater Poland and high duke of all Poland, and Elisabeth, daughter of Prince Álmos.

By early 1223 Genghis Khan had selected Ögedei, his third son, as his successor.

Their son was Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos ( 1223 – 1282 ).

From William, who died in 1223, Royton passed to his son Thomas, who was still alive in 1254.

A relatively later chronicler, writing during the reign of George IV Lasha ( son of Tamar and David Soslan ; 1212 – 1223 ), ascribes David Soslan, though vaguely, the Bagrationi ancestry.

He passed power onto his son Lǐ Déwàng in 1223, and died in 1226.