Between 1253 and 1260 the town was incorporated according to the German town law called Środa Śląska Law after Środa Śląska in Silesia, a local variation of the Magdeburg Law, and soon started to grow.

The order, which by 1253 had extensive possessions in Bohemia, soon spread to neighbouring lands.

Marjorie of Carrick ( also Margaret ) ( c. 1253 or 1256 – soon bef.

Marjorie or Margaret ( c. 1253 or 1256 – soon bef.

Andrew died some time after 1253, while he was active as a missionary in Palestine.

Mindaugas, the King of Lithuania, was baptised together with his wife after his coronation in 1253, hoping that this would help stop the Crusaders ' attacks, which it did not.

In August 1253, after much worry about the order's insistence on absolute poverty, Innocent finally approved the rule of the 2nd Order of the Franciscans, the Poor Clares, founded by St. Clare of Assisi, the great friend of St Francis.

In 1253, the Bahrani dynasty of the Usfurids of Banu Uqayl — named after its founder, Usfur ibn Rashid — gained control over eastern Arabia, including the islands of Bahrain.

* Henry ( b. after 1253 – d. young )

# Berengaria ( 1253 – after 1284 ).

The work was discovered among Dōgen ’ s papers by Ejō in 1253, just three months after Dōgen ’ s death.

The Franciscan monastery, il Sacro Convento, and the lower and upper church ( Basilica inferiore e superiore ) of St Francis were begun immediately after his canonization in 1228, and completed in 1253.

In about 1253, he married Elizabeth ( 1240 – after 1290 ), daughter of a chieftain of the Cuman tribes, they settled in Hungary and had the following children:

Only at Easter of 1253, after the Church intervention, the brothers were finally reconciled and Bolesław received the Duchy of Kalisz-Gniezno.

Its prison walls have witnessed the tragic fate of many ' criminals ' who spent their days there-maybe their last-under inhumane conditions, and, periodically, various highly ranked noblemen have also been imprisoned there including rulers such as Archbishop Adalbert III, arrested by his own ministeriales in 1198, Count Albert of Friesach ( in 1253 ), the Styrian governor Siegmund von Dietrichstein, captured by insurgent peasants in 1525, and Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich Raitenau, who died here in 1617 after six years of imprisonment.

It is the third smallest town in Shropshire ( after Clun and Bishop's Castle ), having been granted a town charter in 1253.

However modern sources state that the King's father Robert ( 1253 – 1304 ) married secondly, after 1292, to a lady with the Christian name of Eleanor ( died 1331 ) by whom he had a daughter, Isabel de Bruce, who married Thomas Randolph, Lord Chamberlain of Scotland.

Founded in 1328, it is the second oldest school in the Netherlands with recorded date of establishment ( after the Johan de Witt-gymnasium in Dordrecht, established 1253 ).

In the division of the territory of Seville proclaimed on 1 May 1253, almost a year after the death of his brother Ferdinand III and during the reign of his nephew Alfonso X, Prince Alfonso of Molina received large grants and was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the land distribution due to his status as younger brother of Ferdinand.

Dōgen Zenji ( 道元禅師 ; also Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元, or Koso Joyo Daishi ) ( 19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253 ) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto.

* 1253 – September 22 – Dōgen Zenji, founder of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism in Japan and author of the Shōbōgenzō and other important works ( b. 1200 )

The different component texts — referred to as fascicles — of the Kana Shōbōgenzō were written between 1231 and 1253 — the year of Dōgen's death ( Dōgen, 2002, p. xi ).

" By a careful reading of Dōgen ( 1200 – 1253 ) and a watchful understanding of the inner sense of time, Abe learns and teaches how the objectification of time can alienate us from our own experience of its impermanence.

* Dōgen Zenji ( 1200 – 1253 )

During Louis IX's stay in Acre, Henry I died in 1253, and was succeeded in Cyprus by his infant son Hugh II.

Morta ( baptized c. 1252 by the bishop of Chełmno, died c. 1263 ) was the Grand Duchess of Lithuania ( until 1253 ) and later Queen of Lithuania ( 1253 – 1262 ).

Grosseteste died on 9 October 1253.

In 1253, King Wenceslaus died and Ottokar succeeded his father as King of Bohemia.

He died on 23 September 1253 and Ottokar II succeeded him.

She was firstly married in 1250 to Henry I of Cyprus, who died in 1253.

After dedicating St Edmund's Chapel at Dover, he died at the Maison Dieu there at midnight on 3 April 1253, where he had been ordered by the Pope to preach a crusade.

One year later, on 23 September 1253, King Wenceslaus I died.

The Anthem came to existence in 1253, along with the canonization of saint Stanisław Szczepanowski ( September 8 in Assisi ), who died a martyrs death on April 11, 1079.

* Henry I of Cyprus ( died 1253 )

* 1253. Owen Ó hEidhin, Lord of Hy-Fiachrach Aidhne, died.

After Bishop Nicholas of Riga died in 1253, Suerbeer finally received the Bishopric of Riga he had claimed over 10 years.

Mahaut or Matilda II of Boulogne ( also known as Mathilde, Maud de Dammartin ; died 1260 ) was Countess of Boulogne in her own right and Queen of Portugal by marriage to King Afonso III from 1248 until their divorce in 1253.

Henry I died in 1253, and Louis IX left for France in 1254, leaving John as bailli of Jerusalem.

Agnes nursed her sister Clare during the latter's illness, and shortly thereafter died herself, on 16 November 1253.

* 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.

To ascend the throne, he abdicated from the county of Boulogne and later ( 1253 ) divorced Matilda.

Muban ruled Korea under successive Warrior Leaders until the Mongol Conquest in 1253.

* 1253: First known mention of the name " Gdynia ", as a Pomeranian ( Kashubian ) fishing village.

The Palatinate and Bavaria were originally held by the same individual, but in 1253, they were divided between two members of the House of Wittelsbach.

* 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.

* 1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.

* 1194 – Clare of Assisi, Italian saint ( d. 1253 )

In 1253, Mindaugas was crowned and the Kingdom of Lithuania was established.

During the summer of 1253 he was crowned King of Lithuania, ruling between 300, 000 and 400, 000 subjects.

In the 1990s the historian Edvardas Gudavičius published research supporting an exact coronation date – 6 July 1253.

To eliminate any possible doubts, Nichiren decided to spend some time at Mount Kōya, the centre of esoteric Buddhism, and also in Nara, Japan ’ s ancient capital, where he studied the Ritsu sect, which emphasized strict monastic discipline and ordination. During this time, he became convinced of the pre-eminence of the Lotus Sutra and in 1253, returned to Seichoji.

Among other things, in 1253 Nichiren predicted the Mongol invasions of Japan: a prediction which was validated in 1274.

The mantra he expounded on 28 April 1253, known as the Daimoku or Odaimoku, Nam ( u )- Myōhō-Renge-Kyō, expresses his devotion to that body of teachings.

( The Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus ), Nichiren added to the title the word Namu ( devotion to ), and declared on 28 April 1253, the chanting of the phrase Nam ( u ) Myoho Renge Kyo as his basic practice for revealing one ’ s Buddha nature in daily life.

Then in 1253 Przemysł issued a charter to Thomas of Guben ( Gubin ) for the founding of a town under Magdeburg law, between the castle and the river.

He became Bishop of Verdun in 1253.

The Dominican priest Peter of Verona, martyred by Albigensian heretics in 1252, was raised to the altars, as was Stanislaus of Szczepanów, the great Polish Archbishop of Cracow, both in 1253.

Historian Romas Batūra identifies the city with Voruta, one of the castles of Mindaugas, crowned in 1253 as King of Lithuania.