

His son Al-Kamil becomes the effective ruler ( viceroy) of Egypt. During his reign, he promotes trade and good relations with the Crusader States.

John accomplishes this by arguing that he has failed to get the necessary papal dispensation to marry Isabella of Gloucester. In order to remarry, John needs to abandon his first wife, Isabella of Gloucester. August 25 – Eager to make peace with Aymer Taillefer, count of Angoulême, John marries his 15-year-old daughter Isabella of Angoulême at Bordeaux.The agreement recognizes John as overlord of most of the English owned lands in France, but John has to give Philip the lands of Norman Vexin and Évreux and a large sum of money (some 20,000 marks) – a "relief" payment for recognition of John's sovereignty of Brittany. May 22 – The Kings John ( Lackland) and Philip II ( Augustus) sign a peace treaty at Le Goulet, an island in the middle of the Seine River, near Vernon in Normandy.On February 23, Baldwin IX, count of Flanders and his brother Henry of Flanders take the cross at Bruges (modern Belgium), and agree to take part in the Fourth Crusade called by Pope Innocent III (see 1199).

Meanwhile, Boniface and various nobles are mustering an expeditionary army (mainly forces from France and the Holy Roman Empire) at Paris. Spring – Boniface I, marquis of Montferrat, sends envoys to Venice, Genoa and other city-states to negotiate a contract for transport to the Levant.
