page_title: Timeline of Paris
section_title: 13th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Paris / The Middle Ages / 13th century
caption_attribution_description: Sainte Chapelle - Upper Chapel, Paris, France
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.
context_section_description: 1200
  Battles between the sergeants of the Provost of Paris and students, which cause the death of five students. When the Paris students threaten to leave the city, Philip Augustus grants the students the right to be judged exclusively by the tribunal of the Bishop of Paris. This marks the beginning of the legal status of the University of Paris.
  1202
  Completion of the fortress of the Louvre.
  The Abbot of Saint-Geneviève purchases the clos Garlande on the Left Bank and builds houses in the neighborhood for students.
  1207
  Pope Innocent III limits the number of chairs of theology at the University to eight, to maintain control over the University.
  1209
  The second college of the University is founded; the Collège des pauvres écoliers de Saint-Honoré, for thirteen students without funds.
  1210
  Pope Innocent III permits the teachers of the University to form a corporation, and in 1212 gives them a degree of independence from the authority of the Bishop of Paris.
  Ten Amauriciens, students of the scholar Amaury de Chartres, are condemned for heresy and burned at the stake outside of Paris, beyond the rampart gate porte des Champeaux, for making too much of the works of Aristotle.
  1215 – The University of Paris is chartered by Pope Innocent III.
  1219
  16 November – Pope Innocent III prohibits the teaching of Roman, or civil law, at the University; only canon law can be taught.
  December – Conflicts between the Bishop of Paris and the University, which is supported by the new Pope, Honorius III.
  1229
  26 February – More street battles between students and the sergeants of the Provost of Paris. On April 15, the University temporarily leaves the city in protest, and some of the teachers depart for Oxford and Cambridge.
  1230
  Paris scriptoria producing illuminated manuscripts flourish. The style of the Paris school is copied throughout France.
  1231
  Draining of the marshes Le Marais begins.
  c. 1240
  For the first time, the ringing of the bells of the churches of Paris is regulated by clocks, so that all sound at about the same time. The time of day becomes an important feature in regulating the work and life of the city.
  1246
  The University of Paris is granted financial and judicial autonomy, and its own seal.
  Founding of the College and Priory of Saint-Bernard, to house the Cistercian monks who have come to Paris to study theology.
  1248
  Saint Bonaventure begins to teach at the University of Paris.
  26 April – Consecration of Sainte-Chapelle, built to house sacred relics from the Holy Land purchased by Louis IX (Saint Louis).
  c. 1250
  Founding of the Parlement of Paris (Curia Regis), to advise the King on legal matters and later to make judicial decisions.
  1252
  Saint Thomas Aquinas begins to teach at the University of Paris, and remains until 1259. He returns between 1269 and 1272.
  1254
  June – Alphonse de Poitiers, brother of Louis IX, moves into his recently built townhouse (hôtel d'Hosteriche) near the Louvre. Following his example, other princes of the blood and members of the high aristocracy built princely residences in the same neighborhood.
  1256
  10 June – First stone laid for the Abbaye royale de Longchamp, the royal convent of Longchamp, by Isabelle, Louis IX's sister.
  1257
  1 September – Opening of a new college of the university founded by Robert de Sorbon, advisor to the King, later known as the College of Sorbonne.
  1260
  Geoffroy de Courfraud is named the first chevalier de guet, or knight of the watchmen, responsible for security in the city.
  Corporation of surgeons and corporation of barbers are organized.
  1261
  Étienne Boileau is named the first prévôt, or provost of Paris, the royal administrator of the city.
  A new college is organized for students of the Abbey of Cluny.
  1263
  Évroïn de Valenciennes becomes the first recorded provost of the merchants of Paris, a position which gradually becomes equivalent to that of mayor.
  1280
  December – A major flood washes away two arches of the Grand Pont and one arch of the Petit Pont, and encircles the city on the right bank.
  1291
  May – King Philip IV, ("Philip the Fair"), expels the money-
caption: Sainte-Chapelle, the masterpiece of flamboyant Gothic architecture, consecrated in 1248.
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