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<h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <h3>Buildings</h3> <ul><li>1240 – Construction begins of the <a href="/facts/Castel_del_Monte_(Apulia)/PqlNszCq">Castel del Monte</a> in <a href="/facts/Apulia/svvnMLN5">Apulia</a>, <a href="/facts/Italy/tUf0PDYF">Italy</a>, for <a href="/facts/Holy_Roman_Emperor_Frederick_II/bRH1VNPd">Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor</a>; used by Frederick primarily as a <a href="/facts/Hunting/z1XhJdB2">hunting</a> lodge.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li>1242 – <a href="/facts/Heddal_Stave_Church/lY1gEzaF">Heddal Stave Church</a> in <a href="/facts/Norway/wlDRKRTR">Norway</a> consecrated, built in the first half of the 13th century.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>1242 – Rebuilding of <a href="/facts/Peyrepertuse/aFdhmEY1">Peyrepertuse</a> Castle in <a href="/facts/France/CxIeIKM3">France</a> to its current form begun.</li> <li>c.1245 – Rebuilding of <a href="/facts/Westminster_Abbey/txMva2Xf">Westminster Abbey</a> begun.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>1246 – <a href="/facts/Lakshmi_Narasimha_Temple,_Nuggehalli/98lXjowG">Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli</a> built in the <a href="/facts/Hoysala_Empire/gk3DX5g4">Hoysala Empire</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li>1247 <ul><li><a href="/facts/Basilica_of_St._Cunibert,_Cologne/ET7W0ftt">Basilica of St. Cunibert, Cologne</a>, consecrated.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>Inauguration of <a href="/facts/St._Mary%27s_Church,_Sigtuna/pBustHHa">St. Mary's Church, Sigtuna</a>, Sweden.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>Start of reconstruction of <a href="/facts/Bassac_Abbey/GzUT8UxA">Bassac Abbey</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li>Approximate start of construction of original <a href="/facts/Pagoda_of_Monk_Wansong/kDB6cUAa">Pagoda of Monk Wansong</a> in <a href="/facts/Beijing/Bg4puFBv">Beijing</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>1248 <ul><li>April 26 – Consecration of <a href="/facts/Sainte_Chapelle/LoJ54rnW">Sainte Chapelle</a>, <a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>August 15 – The foundation stone of <a href="/facts/Cologne_Cathedral/uBjfSxgj">Cologne Cathedral</a> in <a href="/facts/Cologne/U2qmyGga">Cologne</a> is laid<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> by Archbishop <a href="/facts/Konrad_von_Hochstaden/fH0elQw8">Konrad von Hochstaden</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>1249 – <a href="/facts/Sadasiva_Temple,_Nuggehalli/J6H0zBLn">Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli</a> built in the <a href="/facts/Hoysala_Empire/gk3DX5g4">Hoysala Empire</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>1245 – c. June: <a href="/facts/Elias_of_Dereham/6YnWFrLP">Elias of Dereham</a>, English canon and building designer<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>David Abulafia (1992) Frederick II: a medieval emperor pp 288. Oxford University Press US ISBN 0-19-508040-8 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sgufggLomo8C&dq=Castel+del+Monte+begun&pg=PA288" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=sgufggLomo8C&dq=Castel+del+Monte+begun&pg=PA288</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Heddal stave church | a divine building built by a troll | Norway". 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2022-04-11. <a href="https://talknorway.no/heddal-stave-church-a-divine-building-built-by-a-troll-norway/" target="_blank">https://talknorway.no/heddal-stave-church-a-divine-building-built-by-a-troll-norway/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"om-stavkirken-no | www.heddalstavkirke.no" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-04-11. <a href="https://www.heddalstavkirke.no/om-stavkirken-no/" target="_blank">https://www.heddalstavkirke.no/om-stavkirken-no/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3. <a href="978-0-500-20316-3" target="_blank">978-0-500-20316-3</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Evans, Kirsti (1997). Epic narratives in the Hoysaḷa temples: the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr, and Amṛtapura. Brill. p. 258. ISBN 90-04-10575-1. <a href="90-04-10575-1" target="_blank">90-04-10575-1</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Stead, Adam (2013). "Rebuilding St. Kunibert: Artistic Integration, Patronage, and Institutional Identities in Thirteenth-Century Cologne" (PDF). University of Toronto Library. Retrieved 11 April 2022. <a href="https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/70148/1/Stead_Adam_R_201311_PhD_thesis.pdf" target="_blank">https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/70148/1/Stead_Adam_R_201311_PhD_thesis.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Viberg, Andreas; Wikström, A. (2011-01-01). "St. Mary's Dominican Convent in Sigtuna Revisited. Geophysical and archaeological investigations". Fornvännen. 106: 322–333. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261114078" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261114078</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Unique Places in Poitou-Charentes - Off the Beaten Path - VirtualTourist". 2014-12-24. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 2022-04-11. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141224110359/http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Poitou_Charentes/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Poitou_Charentes-MISC-BR-1.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20141224110359/http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Poitou_Charentes/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Poitou_Charentes-MISC-BR-1.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain. "The Ste Chapelle (Paris-Buildings)". Grove Encyclopedia of Art. <a href="/wiki/Alain_Erlande-Brandenburg" target="_blank">/wiki/Alain_Erlande-Brandenburg</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>John Henry Parker (1846) A companion to the fourth ed. of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture pp 89. J.H. Parker <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jwoFAAAAYAAJ&dq=1248+%22Cologne+Cathedral%22&pg=PA89" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=jwoFAAAAYAAJ&dq=1248+%22Cologne+Cathedral%22&pg=PA89</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Madhusudan A. Dhaky (1977) The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture pp 20. Abhinav Publications ISBN 81-7017-065-6 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VyW32NwcMr4C&dq=1249+Sadasiva+temple&pg=PA20" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=VyW32NwcMr4C&dq=1249+Sadasiva+temple&pg=PA20</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2004-09-23). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/37391. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37391. Retrieved 2022-04-11. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37391" target="_blank">http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37391</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>