Alphonse took part in two crusades with his brother, St Louis, in 1248 ( the Seventh Crusade ) and in 1270 ( the Eighth Crusade ).

The foundation of the town of Neubrandenburg took place in 1248, when the Margrave of Brandenburg decided to build a town in the northern part of his fief.

A panel painting on oak of St Peter, the only surviving part of a tabernacle shrine ( 1850 x 750 mm ), in the Museum of Oslo University has been attributed to Paris, presumably dating from his visit in 1248.

Another version indicates that the lower part is inspired on the flag that King Ferdinand III of Castile carried in the conquest of Seville in 1248.

William II of Villehardouin took it in 1248, on honourable terms, after three years of siege ; in 1259 William was captured by the Greeks after the battle of Pelagonia and in 1262 it was retroceded to Michael VIII Palaiologos as part of William's ransom.

As a young man, in 1243 he was taken into the Teutonic Order custody as a hostage, part of the ceasefire agreement between his father and the Order, but the Order did not keep their part of this agreement and failed to return Mestwin II who was held by them until 1248 ( for some time in the Order castle in Austria ) when finally released.

Twelve years later, in 1248, he took part in the siege of Seville and captured the Torre de Oro.

Via the Walhonding, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 482 square miles ( 1248 km² ).

When Casimir's elder brother Duke Bolesław I of Masovia died in 1248, he took the occasion and took Dobrzyń Land east of the Vistula River from the heritage of his younger brother Siemowit I.

The Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg had purchased the surrounding Lubusz Land from the Silesian Duke Bolesław II the Bald in 1248.

Louis arrived in Cyprus in 1248, where he gathered an army of his own men, including his brothers Robert of Artois, Charles of Anjou, and Alphonse of Poitiers, and those of Cyprus and Jerusalem, led by the Ibelin family John of Jaffa, Guy of Ibelin, and Balian of Beirut.

Abulcasis ( 936-1013 ) of Cordoba authored The Book of Simples, an important source for later European herbals, while Ibn al-Baitar ( 1197 – 1248 ) of Malaga authored the Corpus of Simples, the most complete Arab herbal which introduced 200 new healing herbs, including tamarind, Aconitum, and nux vomica.

1248 individuals volunteered for the event, including individuals representing Wayne State University and several Ann Arbor High Schools.

In 1248 the abbott of Fecamp had a prison in the village.

The name of the village was recorded in 1248 as Godeston, suggesting an etymology of the Old English personal name Goda and tun " farm, village ", here in the sense " village " rather than " estate " considering the village size.

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

Since Sancho was not a popular king, the order was not hard to enforce ; he was exiled to Castile and Afonso III became king in 1248 after his brother's death.

The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.

It was the seat of the archbishops, who ruled the surrounding area and ( from 1248 to 1880 ) built the great Cologne Cathedral, with sacred relics that made it a destination for many worshippers.

During his first crusade in 1248, Louis was approached by envoys from Eljigidei, the Mongol ruler of Armenia and Persia.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Viator without colleague ( or, less frequently, year 1248 Ab urbe condita ).

Year 1248 ( MCCXLVIII ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

After a short period under an Imperial vicar, Ravenna was returned to the Papal States in 1248 and again to the Traversari until, in 1275, the Da Polenta established their long-lasting seigniory.

If it was really a vassal state, it was contrary to the policy of the Reconquista to allow it to flourish for almost two centuries and a half after the fall of Sevilla in 1248.

León was finally reunited with Castile in 1230, and the following decades saw the capture of Córdoba ( 1236 ), Murcia ( 1243 ) and Seville ( 1248 ).

The History of Jin 《 金史 》 ( compiled by 1345 ) states that in 1232, as the Mongol general Subutai ( 1176 – 1248 ) descended on the Jin stronghold of Kaifeng, the defenders had a " thunder-crash bomb " which " consisted of gunpowder put into an iron container ... then when the fuse was lit ( and the projectile shot off ) there was a great explosion the noise whereof was like thunder, audible for more than a hundred li, and the vegetation was scorched and blasted by the heat over an area of more than half a mou.

The town was ruled until 1248 by the counts of Andechs-Merania.

He was born between 1248 and 1250 at an unknown location, possibilities include Galloway, Picardy and Barnard Castle, County Durham.

On separate occasions, in return for loans from the treasury of Guelders, the bishop of Utrecht granted the taxation and administration of the Veluwe, and William II --- Count of both Holland and Zeeland, and who was elected anti-king of the Holy Roman Empire ( 1248 – 1256 )--- similarly granted the same rights over Nijmegen ; as neither ruler proved able to repay their debts, these lands became integral parts of Guelders.

Besides Peter, there was another possible claimant, the fifteen-year-old Thomas III of Piedmont ( 1248 – 82 ), the eldest son of Peter's elder brother Thomas, Count of Flanders.

Until it was completed in 1248, the relics were housed at chapels at the Château de Vincennes and a specially built chapel at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

The chapel was consecrated on 26 April 1248 and Louis ' relics were moved to their new home with great ceremony.

* 1248 – Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.

The first written account of using medicine and entomology to solve ( separate ) criminal cases is attributed to the book of Xi Yuan Lu ( translated as " Washing Away of Wrongs "), written in Song Dynasty China by Song Ci ( 宋慈, 1186 – 1249 ) in 1248.

The city's name, which means " two sisters ", dates from its founding in 1248 by King Ferdinand III of Castile and honours the sisters of Gonzalo Nazareno, one of the king's principal military commanders.

On 25 August 1248, Ommen received city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Prince-Bishop of Utrecht, after the town was pillaged by local robber baron Rudolf of Coevorden and his militia of freemen in both 1215 and in the aftermath of the Battle of Ane of 1227.

Later, in 1248, Louis IX of France proposed ( by Matthew Paris as messenger ) to Haakon to join him for a crusade, with Haakon as commander of the fleet, but Haakon turned the offer down.

During the 15 years to follow, Birger then consolidated his position and was probably one of the most influential men years before being formally given the title jarl in 1248 by King Eric XI.

When the papal diplomat William of Modena visited present Sweden around 1248, he urged the Swedish kings to fulfill the rules of the Catholic Church, an exhortation which Birger seems to have taken as a chance to strengthen his position by simply taking the side of the church against other members of his family ( alternatively possible to interpret as a manifestation of his pious side ).

* Maynooth: a prebend since 1248, the right of presentation was long held by a lay person.

In 1248, a Crusader fleet of 1, 800 boats and ships arrived in Cyprus with the intent of launching a Seventh Crusade against the Muslims by conquering Egypt.

In 1248 he was enticed by discontented nobles to lead a rebellion against his father, King Wenceslaus.

Sancho II (), nicknamed " the Pious " () and " the Caped " or " the Capuched " ( Portuguese: o Capelo ), King of Portugal ( 8 September 1209, Coimbra – 4 January 1248, Toledo ), was the eldest son of Afonso II of Portugal by his wife, Infanta Urraca of Castile.

The techniques and methods first used to produce essential oils were first mentioned by Ibn al-Baitar ( 1188 – 1248 ), an Andalusian physician, pharmacist and chemist .< ref >

In 1248, Wenceslaus had to deal with a rebellion of the Bohemian nobility, led by his own son Ottokar II.

Until the reconquest of Seville by the Christians in 1248, a Mozarab community existed there, though in the course of the 12th century Almoravid persecution had forced many Mozarabs in Al-Andalus to flee northward.

He was the son of Count William II ( 1227 – 1256 ), who was elected King of the Romans of the Holy Roman Empire in 1248, and was slain in 1256 by Frisians when Floris was just two years old.

In 1248 and 1249 the town was destroyed again, this time by the monastery to establish loyalty.

The Seventh Crusade was a crusade led by Louis IX of France from 1248 to 1254.

In 1248 the dukes of Merania became extinct, and the entire region was annexed by the clerical state of Bamberg.

By the reign of Henry III around 1248 the population was large enough to warrant Cholesbury being split off as a separate manor, still controlled by the le Bretons.