List of state leaders in 1221

1220 state leaders - Events of 1221 - 1222 state leaders - State leaders by year

Africa

• Kingdom of Ghana (Susu Kingdom) - Sumanguru Kante (~1200–1235)
• Kanem Empire - Dunama II Dibbalem, Saifawa Mai of Kanem (1210–1224)

Asia

• China (Jin Dynasty) - Emperor Xuanzong (1213–1223)
• China (Southern Song Dynasty) - Emperor Ningzong (1194–1224)
• Korea (Goryeo Kingdom) - Gojong (1213–1259)
• India - Iltutmish, Mameluk sultan of India (1211–1236)
• Japan (Kamakura period)
  • Monarch –
    1. Emperor Juntoku (1210–1221)
    2. Emperor Chūkyō (1221)
    3. Emperor Go-Horikawa (1221–1232)
  • Shogun (Kamakura) - vacant
  • Shikken - Hōjō Yoshitoki (1205–1224)
• Khmer Empire - Indravarman II? (1220–1243)
• Mongol Empire - Genghis Khan (1206–1227)
• Western Xia - Emperor Shenzong (1211–1223)

Europe

• Principality of Achaea - Geoffrey I of Villehardouin (1209-c. 1228)
• County of Angoulême - Hugh I (1218–1249)
• Duchy of Aquitaine - Henry II (1216–1254)
• Kingdom of Aragon - James I (1213–1276)
• Duchy of Athens - Otto de la Roche (1205–1225)
• Duchy of Austria - Leopold VI (1198–1230)
• County of Auvergne - Guy II (1195–1224)
• Dauphinate of Auvergne - Dalfi d'Alvernha (Robert IV) (1169–1235)
• Margraviate of Baden - Frederick (1216–1231)
• County of Bar - Henry II (1214–1239)
• County of Barcelona - James I (1213–1276)
• Duchy of Bavaria - Louis I (1183–1231)
• County of Blois - Margaret, with Walter of Avesnes (1218–1230)
• Kingdom of Bohemia - Premysl I Ottokar (1198–1230)
• County of Boulogne - Matilda II (1216- c. 1260)
• Duchy of Brabant - Henry I (1190–1235)
• Duchy of Brittany - Peter I (1213–1237)
• Second Bulgarian Empire - Ivan Asen II, Tsar of Bulgaria (1218–1241)
• Duchy of Burgundy - Hugh IV (1218–1272)
• Duchy of Carinthia - Bernhard (1201–1256)
• Kingdom of Castile - Ferdinand III, the Saint (1217–1252)
• County of Champagne - Theobald IV (1201–1253)
• Deheubarth - Maelgwyn ap Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth (1199–1230), disputed with Rhys the Hoarse (1216–1234)
• Kingdom of Denmark - Valdemar II, the Victorious (1202–1241)
• Duchy of Demmin - Warcislaw III (1219–1264)
• Kingdom of England - Henry III (1216–1272)
• Despotate of Epirus - Theodore Ducas (1214–1230)
• County of Flanders - Jeanne (1205–1244)
• Kingdom of France - Philip II (1180–1223)
• Duchy of Gdańsk - Swietopelk II the Great (1215–1266)
• County of Guelders - Gerard IV (1207–1229)
• Kingdom of Gwynedd - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd (1194–1240)
• County of Hainaut - Jeanne (1205–1244)
• County of Holland - William I (1203–1222)
• Holy Roman Empire - Frederick II (1211–1250)
• Kingdom of Hungary - Andrew II (1205–1235)
• Lordship of Ireland - Henry III of England (1216–1272)
• Kingdom of Mann and the Isles - Raghnall mac Gofraidh (1187–1229)
• Kievan Rus' - Mstislav III, Grand Prince of Kiev (1214–1223)
• Duchy of Lorraine - Matthias II (1220–1251)
• County of Maine - John Capet (1219–1232)
• March of Montferrat - William IV (1207–1225)
• County of Namur - Philip II (1217–1226)
• Kingdom of Navarre - Sancho VII the Strong (1194–1234)
• Duchy of the Archipelago (Naxos) - Marco Sanudo (1207–1227)
• Duchy of Normandy - Henry III (claimed, 1216–1259)
• Kingdom of Norway - Haakon IV (1217–1263)
• Duchy of Opole - Casimir I (1211–1230)
• County of Poitiers - Alfonso (1220–1271)
• Kingdom of Poland - Leszek the White (1211–1227)
• Kingdom of Portugal - Afonso II, the Fat (1212–1233)
• Powys Fadog - Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, Prince of Powys Fadog (1191–1236)
• County of Provence - Ramon Berenguer IV (1209–1245)
• Duchy of Rugia - Wizlaw I (1218–1249)
• Duchy of Saxony - Albert I (1212–1260)
• Kingdom of Scotland - Alexander II (1214–1249)
• Kingdom of Serbia - Stefan Nemanjić (1196–1228)
• Duchy of Sławno - Boguslaw III (1190–1223)
• Duchy of Swabia - Henry II (1216–1235)
• Kingdom of Sweden - John I (1216–1222)
• Duchy of Szczecin - Dobry (1220–1278)
• Kingdom of Thessalonica - Demetrius (1207–1224)
• County of Toulouse - Raymond VI (1194–1222)
• Republic of Venice - Pietro Ziani Doge of Venice (1205–1229)
• Vladimir-Suzdal - Yuri II, Grand Prince (1218–1238)
• Duchy of Silesia (Wrocław) - Henry I the Bearded (1201–1238)
• County of Württemberg - Hartmann (1194–1240)

Middle East and North Africa

• Abbasid Caliphate - An-Nasir, Caliph of Baghdad (1180–1225)
• Emirate of Aleppo - Al-Aziz (1216–1236)
• Almohad Caliphate - Abu Ya'qub Yusuf II (1213–1224)
• Principality of Antioch - Bohemond IV (1219–1233)
• Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia - Isabella (1219–1252)
• Ayyubid Sultanate - Al-Kamil, Sultan of Egypt (1218–1238)
• Baghdad - An-Nasir, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (1180–1225)
• Byzantine Empire - in exile in the Empire of Nicaea - Theodore I Lascaris (1204–1222)
• Kingdom of Cyprus - Henry I (1218–1253)
• Sultanate of Damascus - Al-Mu'azzam (1218–1227)
• Kingdom of Georgia - Giorgi IV Lasha (1213–1223)
• Hamah –
  1. Al-Mansur I Ayyubid Emir of Hamah (1191–1221)
  2. Al-Nasir Ayyubid Emir of Hamah (1221–1229)
• Emirate of Homs - Al-Mujahid (1186–1240)
• Kingdom of Jerusalem (in Acre) - Yolande (1212–1228) (John of Brienne, regent, 1212–1225)
• The Jezirah - Al-Ashraf Ayyubid ruler of the Jezirah (1218–1237)
• Latin Empire of Constantinople - Conon of Bethune, regent (1219–1221) in the absence of Robert of Courtenay
• Sultanate of Rûm - Kayqubad I (1220–1237)
• Empire of Trebizond - Alexius I (1204–1222)
• County of Tripoli - Bohemond IV (1219–1233)
• Emirate of Yemen - Al-Mas'ud Yusuf (1215–1229)