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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: 1257 births, 1257 by country, 1257 deaths, 1257 establishments, 1257 in Europe, 1257 works, Conflicts in 1257, College de Sorbonne, Shajar al-Durr, Przemys I of Greater Poland, Aybak, Main Market Square, Krakow, Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen, Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples, Constance of Wroc aw, Przemys II, Battle of Cadfan, Lanfranc Cigala, Yolanda of Lusignan, Haakon the Young, Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly, Nicholas Farnham, Saint Hyacinth, List of state leaders in 1257, Cecco d'Ascoli, Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, Roger Weseham, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of L'Aquila, Owen de la Pole, Agnes of Habsburg, John I, Count of Hainaut, Richard Blund, Battle of Creadran Cille, William of Cassingham, Nicholas Trivet, Choe Hang, Poppo von Osterna, Yuan Haowen, Maria of Antioch-Armenia, John Byset, Simon of Elmham, Goffraidh O Donaill, 1257 in Ireland, Stephen Bauzan, Walter Suffield, Ulaghchi, Valdemar III, Duke of Schleswig, Bostan, Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon, Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, William III of Baux, Simone Mestaguerra, 1257 in poetry. Excerpt: Shajar al-Durr (Arabic:, "Tree of Pearls") (Royal name: al-Malikah Ismat ad-Din Umm-Khalil Shajar al-Durr (Arabic: ) (Nicknamed:, Umm Khalil; mother of Khalil) (d. 1257, Cairo) was the widow of the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub who played a crucial role after his death during the Seventh Crusade against Egypt (1249-1250). She was regarded by Muslim historians and chroniclers of the Mamluk time as being of Turkic origin. She became the Sultana of Egypt on May 2, 1250, marking the end of the Ayyubid reign and the starting of the Mamluk era. Shajar al-Durr was purchased as a bondmaid by as-Salih Ayyub. in the Levant before he became a Sultan and accompanied him with his Mamluk Baibar...
