1247

1247 was a Year starting on a Tuesday of the Julian Calendar

 Births 

 Angelo da Clareno, Italian priest and religious leader (d. 1337)
 Isabelle of Luxembourg, countess of Flanders (d. 1298)
 John II Avesnes, count of Hainaut and Holland (d. 1304)
 John of Montecorvino, Italian diplomat and bishop (d. 1328)
 Philippe de Rémi, French official and seneschal (d. 1296)
 Rashid al-Din, Persian statesman and historian (d. 1318)
 Robert FitzWalter, English nobleman and knight (d. 1326)
 Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia, Castilian Jewish poet
 Yishan Yining, Chinese monk and calligrapher (d. 1317)
 Yolande II of Nevers, French noblewoman (d. 1280)

 Deaths 

 February 12 – Ermesinde, countess of Luxembourg (b. 1186)
 February 16 – Henry Raspe, landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
 February 25 – Henry IV, duke of Limburg (House of Limburg)
 May 9 – Richard de Bures, French knight and Grand Master
 June 10 – Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Spanish bishop (b. 1170)
 July 8 – Mōri Suemitsu, Japanese nobleman and samurai (b. 1202)
 August 31 – Konrad I of Masovia, Polish nobleman (House of Piast)
 November 5 – Ogasawara Nagatsune, Japanese samurai (b. 1179)
 December 21 – Roger of Salisbury, bishop of Bath and Wells
 December 24 – Shōkū, Japanese Buddhist disciple (b. 1177)
 Helen of Sweden (or Helena), Swedish princess and abbess
 Śārṅgadeva, Indian scholar, musicologist and writer (b. 1175)
 Tomoe Gozen, Japanese female samurai warrior (b. 1157)
 William de Ferrers, English nobleman and knight (b. 1168)