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TDIH - January 22




This Day in (Medieval) History: January 22





613 – Byzantine Emperor Flavius Heracles Augustus crowned his son Constantine (then an eight-month-old baby) as co-emperor.



628 – Death of St. Anastasius of Persia, who was strangled to death and decapitated on the orders of the local Marzban (official of the Parthian Empire) along

with seventy other Christians who refused to renounce their religion.



871 – Battle of Basing: a Viking army defeated a West Saxon army led by King Aethelred I and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great.



1051 – Death of Aelfric Puttoc, Archbishop of York.



1188 – Death of King Ferdinand II of Leon.



1263 – Birth of Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian.



1341 – Death of Duke Louis I of Bourbon.



1440 – Birth of Ivan Vasilyevich, who later became Ivan III ("The Great"), Grand Prince of Moscow and first to call himself "tsar" of Russia.



1506 – The first unit of 150 Swiss Guards arrived in Rome to serve as bodyguards for Pope Julius II.