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Famous People Who Died in 1265

  • Feb 8 Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler, grandson of Genghis Khan (besieged and pillaged Baghdad) (b. 1217)
  • May 16 Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
  • Aug 4 Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (one of the leaders of the baronial rebellion against Henry III), killed at the Battle of Evesham (b. 1223)
  • Aug 4 Simon de Montfort, English Earl of Leicester (led baronial rebellion against Henry III), dies at the Battle of Eversham
  • Dec 3 Odofredus, Italian jurist