Pho Khun Ram Khamhaeng (; b. around 1237 – 1247 – d. 1298 ) was the third king of the Phra Ruang dynasty, ruling the Sukhothai Kingdom ( a forerunner of the modern kingdom of Thailand ) from 1278 – 1298, during its most prosperous era.

In the 13th century, the region was included into the Kingdom of Hungary and Banate of Macsó was formed in 1247.

He was the Preceptor of Aquitaine in France for the Templars and arrived in the Holy Land around autumn of 1247, finding " the remnants of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in a precarious state.

* Armand de Périgord, Grand Master of the Knights Templar ( d. c. 1247 )

According to a charter issued by Béla IV of Hungary for the Knights Hospitallers in 1247, at that time at least four polities existed in the area to the south of the Carpathians.

Tempelhove was first mentioned in a 1247 deed issued at Walkenried Abbey as a Komturhof ( commander's court, the smallest holding entity of a military order ) of the Knights Templar who were expelled from Palestine.

In a charter from 1247, parts of this earlier Cumania were granted to the Knights Hospitalers, as were the Banat of Severin and the Romanian cnezats of Ioan and Lupu ( a fluvio Olth et Alpibus Ultrasylvanis totam Cumaniam … excepta terra Szeneslai Woiavode Olacorum ).

Seneslau, also Seneslav or Stănislau, was a Vlach voivode mentioned in a diploma issued by king Béla IV of Hungary ( 1235 – 1270 ) on 2 July 1247 ; the diploma granted territories to the Knights Hospitaller in the Banate of Severin and Cumania.

Jaffa was by now a minor port and Ascalon was captured from the Knights Hospitaller by the Mamluks in 1247.

Guillaume de Sonnac was Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1247 to 1250.

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# Euphrosyne ( 1247 / 50 – 17 / 19 February 1298 ), Abbess of St. Clara in Trzebnica.

St. Margaret of Cortona ( 1247 – 1297 )

The story of St. Dymphna was first recorded in the thirteenth century by a canon of the Church of St. Aubert at Cambrai, commissioned by the Bishop of Cambrai, Guy I ( 1238 – 1247 AD ).

Maunsell acquired additional benefices including: " the Provost of Beverly " in 1247, " the living of Howden ," " Chancellorship of St. Paul's, London ," " the living of Bawburgh ," " Prebend of South Malling ," " Living of Haughley ," " Prebend of Tottenhall ," " Prebend of Chinchester ," " Dean of Wimborn ," " Rector of Wigan ," " Papal Chaplain ," as well as " Chaplain of the King.

A stone bridge was built across the Avon, c. 1247 and between the years of 1240 and 1247 a Great Ditch was constructed in St Augustine's Marsh to straighten out the course of the River Frome and provide more space for berthing ships.

This date also marked the beginning of the period of fasting, except on Sundays and ending on Easter Sunday, that was stipulated for Carmelites in the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert of 1247.

In 1247, upon instructions of Pope Innocent, Hugh revised the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert, which the Blessed Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, had given the first Carmelite friars on Mount Carmel.

The Church of St. Giles, formerly known as All Saints, dates from 1247, having been restored between 1810and 1818 by Henry Graham and 1863 by Ewan Christian.

The Church of St. Giles is a Grade I listed building, dating from 1247 and there are some Grade II Listed buildings such as Skelton Manor and Pyramid House.

Monks from Beaulieu founded four daughter houses, Netley Abbey ( 1239 ), Hailes Abbey ( 1246 ), Newenham Abbey ( 1247 ) and St Mary Graces Abbey ( 1350 ).

Alphonse of Poitiers ( 11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271 ) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso II ) from 1247.

Since she was Raymond's only child, they became rulers of Toulouse at Raymond's death in 1247.

By 1247, Ayyub had reoccupied most of the territory that had been conceded in 1239, and had also gained control of Damascus.

In 1247, the city was ceded to the count of Guelders as collateral for a loan.

The city's name appears in documents in the Latin nominative case as Posnania in 1236 and Poznania in 1247.

Subsequently he received several ecclesiestical benefices, becoming archdeacon in Bologna ( 1244 ) and Parma ( 1244 / 48 – 1255 ), canon and chancellor of the cathedral chapter in Reims ( 1243 – 1250 ), canon and dean of the chapter in Piacenza ( c. 1247 ) and canon of the cathedral chapter in Paris ( 1244 / 45 – 1270 ).

The city was besieged in 1247 – 48 by Emperor Frederick II, who was however crushed in the battle that ensued.

The mission met with the Mongol ruler Baichu near the Caspian Sea in 1247.

His whereabouts between 1247 and 1256 are uncertain, but about 1256 he became a friar in the Franciscan Order.

: Hood's death is stated by Ritson to have taken place on the 18th of November, 1247, about the 87th year of his age ; but according to the following inscription found among the papers of the Dean of York ... the death occurred a month later.

* Heinrich Raspe, Landgraf of Thuringia ( d. 1247 )

* Shōkū, Buddhist leader ( d. 1247 )

* February 22 – Saint Margaret of Cortona ( b. 1247 )

In the War of the Thuringian Succession ( 1247 – 64 ), Hesse gained its independence and became a Landgraviate within the Holy Roman Empire.

However, he was not canonised until Henry III lifted his objections in 1247.

In 1247, his brother Louis IX made him Count of Anjou and Maine, as appanages of the French crown.

Charles became the next in line to receive the Counties, but was formally invested only in 1247.

In 1247, while Charles had gone to France to receive the Counties of Anjou and Maine, the local nobility ( represented by Barral of Baux and Boniface of Castellane ) joined with Beatrice and the three Imperial cities to form a defensive league against him.

* August 22 – John II, Count of Hainaut ( b. 1247 )

* November 28 – Yishan Yining, Zen monk and writer from China who taught in Japan ( b. 1247 )

** Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Persian writer and historian ( b. 1247 )

* January 18 – Robert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter, English baron ( b. 1247 )

** Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan ( b. 1247 )

** Philippe de Rémi ( b. c. 1247 )