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Year 1198 (MCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

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EnglandEdit

  • John of England captures a party of 18 French knights and many men-at-arms, in the ongoing conflict against France.<ref>King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 47</ref> His brother, King Richard I (the Lionheart) introduces a new Great Seal – in an attempt to keep the war against France funded. The government proclaims that charters previously struck with the old seal are no longer valid and must be renewed with a fresh payment.<ref>King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 62</ref> The office of Lord Warden of the Stannaries is also introduced, to tax the produce of tin mines in Cornwall and Devon.<ref>King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 124</ref>
  • September 27Battle of Gisors: Richard I defeats the French forces led by Philip II (Augustus) at Courcelles-lès-Gisors, in Picardy. Richard captures three castles on the border of the Vexin. The French troops, many of them mounted, crowd the bridge leading into Gisors Castle but it collapses beneath them. The French king is among those who plunge into the water in his armor. Many French knights drown, but Philip is pulled to safety.

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  • December 11Averroes (or Ibn Rushd), Arab polymath and physician, dies. He is the author of more than 100 books, for which he is known in the western world as The Commentator and Father of Rationalism.<ref>Gill, John (2009). Andalucía: A Cultural History, pp. 108–110. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN.</ref>

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