List of state leaders in 1258

This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1258.

Asia

• China (Southern Song dynasty) – Emperor Lizong (1224–1264)
• Korea (Goryeo Kingdom) – Gojong (1213–1259)
• Japan (Kamakura period)
  • Monarch – Emperor Go-Fukakusa (1246–1260)
  • Kamakura shogunate – Prince Munetaka (1252–1266)
  • Shikken – Hōjō Nagatoki (1256–1264)
• Khmer Empire – Jayavarman VIII (1243–1295)
• Mongol Empire – Möngke Khan (1251–1260)
• Pagan Kingdom – Narathihapate (1254–1287)
• Kingdom of Sukhothai – Si Inthrathit (1238–1270)

Europe

Balkans

• Principality of Achaea – William II of Villehardouin (1246–1278)
• Duchy of the Archipelago – Angelo Sanudo (1227–1262)
• Duchy of Athens – Guy I de la Roche (1225–1263)
• Bulgarian Empire – Constantine Tikh, Tsar of Bulgaria (1257–1277)
• Latin Empire of Constantinople – Baldwin II (1228–1261)
• Despotate of Epirus – Michael II Komnenos Doukas (1230–1267)
• Lordship of Negroponte – Felicia dalle Carceri (1216–1262)
• Kingdom of Serbia – Stephen Uroš I (1243–1276)
• Kingdom of Thessalonica – William (1253–1284)

British Isles

• Kingdom of England – Henry III (1216–1272)
• Kingdom of Gwynedd – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1246–1282)
• Kingdom of Scotland – Alexander III (1249–1286)

Central Europe

• Kingdom of Hungary – Béla IV (1235–1270)
• Kingdom of Lithuania – Mindaugas (1253–1263)
• Livonia – Burchard von Hornhausen, Master of the Livonian Knights (1256–1260)
• Duchy of Poland – Bolesław V the Chaste, High Duke of Poland (1243–1279)
• Teutonic Knights Domains – Anno von Sangershausen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1256–1273)

Greater France

• County of Angoulême – Hugh II (1249–1260)
• County of Champagne – Theobald V (1253–1270)
• County of Flanders – Margaret II (1244–1278)
• Kingdom of France – Louis IX (1226–1270)
  • County of Anjou – Charles (1247–1285)
  • County of Artois – Robert II (1250–1302)
  • County of Blois – John I (1241–1280)
  • Duchy of Brittany – John I (1237–1286)
  • Duchy of Burgundy – Hugh IV (1218–1271)
  • County of Champagne – Theobald V (1253–1270)
  • County of Flanders – Guy (1252–1305)
  • Duchy of Guyenne – Henry II (1216–1272)
  • County of Poitou – Alphonse (1225–1271)
  • County of Toulouse – Alphonse (1249–1271)

Holy Roman Empire

• Holy Roman Emperor- (disputed election) Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (1257–1272) and Alfonso X of Castile, King of the Romans (1257–1284)
• Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben – Henry II (1252–1267)
• Kingdom of Bohemia – Ottokar II (1253–1278)
• Margraviate of Brandenburg – John I and Otto III, jointly (1220–1266)
• Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg – Albert I and John jointly (1252–1267)
• County of Burgundy – Hugh III and Adelaide I (1248–1266)
• Duchy of Carinthia – Ulrich III (1256–1269)
• County of Cleves – Dietrich V (1201–1260)
• Dauphiné Viennois – Guigues VII (1237–1269)
• County of Guelders – Otto II, the Lame (1229–1271)
• County of Holland – Floris V (1256–1296)
• County of Jülich – William IV (1219–1278)
• Prince-Bishopric of Liège – Henry of Guelders (1247–1274)
• Duchy of Limburg – Waleran IV (1247–1279)
• Duchy of Lower Bavaria – Henry XIII (1253–1290)
• County of Luxembourg – Henry V (1256–1264)
• County of Mark – Engelbert I (1249–1277)
• Margraviate of Meissen – Henry III (1221–1288)
• Bishopric of Münster – Otto II (1247–1259)
• County of Namur – Henry V (1247–1281)
• County of Provence – Charles (1246–1285)
• County of Savoy – Boniface (1253–1263)
• Duchy of Saxony – Albert II (1212–1260)
• Duchy of Swabia – Conradin (1254–1268)
• Archbishopric of Trier – Arnold II von Isenburg (1242–1259)
• Duchy of Upper Bavaria – Louis II (1253–1294)

Iberian Peninsula

• Kingdom of Aragon – James I (1213–1276)
• Crown of Castile – Alfonso X (1252–1284)
• Emirate of Granada – Muhammad I (1237–1273)
• Kingdom of Navarre – Theobald II (1253–1270)
• Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves – Afonso III (1249–1279)

Italy

• Papal States – Pope Alexander IV (1254–1261)
• Kingdom of Sicily – Conradin and Manfred (1258–1266)

Scandinavia

• Kingdom of Denmark – Christopher I (1252–1259)
• Kingdom of Norway – Haakon IV (1217–1263)
• Kingdom of Sweden
  • Monarch – Valdemar I (1250–1275)
  • Regent – Birger Jarl, regent of Sweden (1250–1266)

Russia

• Novgorod Republic –
  1. Vasily Aleksandrovich, elected prince of Novgorod (1255–1258)
  2. Alexander Nevsky, elected prince of Novgorod (1258–1260)
• Principality of Tver – Yaroslav of Tver (1247–1271)
• Principality of Vladimir – Alexander Nevsky (1252–1263)

Middle East and North Africa

• Abbasid Caliphate – Al-Musta'sim (1242–1258)
• Principality of Antioch – Bohemond VI (1252–1268)
• Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia – Hethum I (1226–1270)
• Kingdom of Cyprus – Hugh II (1253–1267)
• Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt – Al-Mansur Ali (1257–1259)
• Ilkhanate – Hulagu Khan (1256–1265)
• Kingdom of Jerusalem – Conradin (1254–1268)
• Empire of Nicaea –
  1. Theodore II Laskaris (1254–1258)
  2. John IV Laskaris (1258–1261)
• Sultanate of Rûm – Kaykaus II (1246–1262) and Kilij Arslan IV (1248–1260) (co-rulers)
• Karamanids – Karaman Bey (1257–1261)
• Syria – An-Nasir Yusuf, Sultan of Damascus (1250–1260)
• Empire of Trebizond – Manuel I (1238–1263)