List of state leaders in 1221

This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1221.

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, Mamluk sultan (1211–1236)
• Japan (Kamakura period)
  • Monarch –
    1. Emperor Juntoku (1210–1221)
    2. Emperor Chūkyō (1221)
    3. Emperor Go-Horikawa (1221–1232)
  • Kamakura shogunate – 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 – Ottokar I (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 – Maelgwn ap Rhys (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 the Isles – Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson (1187–1226)
• 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 and the Algarves – 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)
  • Marquisate of Bodonitsa – Guy Pallavicini (1205–1237)
• County of Toulouse – Raymond VI (1194–1222)
• Republic of Venice – Pietro Ziani Doge of Venice (1205–1229)
• Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal – Yuri II, Grand Prince (1218–1238)
• Duchy of Silesia (Wrocław) – Henry 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)