- Jan 30 Pelagio Galvani, Leonese ecclesiastical lawyer, and Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. va. 1165)
- Apr 11 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
- May 1 Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
- Jul 24 Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- Nov 16 Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic and philosopher (The Meccan Revelations), dies at 75
- Nov 16 Saint Edmund of Abingdon, English bishop (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1233-40), dies