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Famous People Who Died in 1240

  • 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, German 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