1300s in England

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Events from the 1300s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Edward I (to 7 July 1307), Edward II

Events

The Hereford Mappa Mundi

• 1300
  • 10 March - Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. It is generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket.
  • 28 March - Edward I agrees to the issuing of "Articles of the Charters", establishing punishments for infringing the Magna Carta.^[1]
  • April - Sterling confirmed as the only official coin of the realm; Royal mint moved to the Tower of London.^[1]
  • 10 October - First War of Scottish Independence: At the urging of the Pope, Edward I makes a temporary truce with Scotland.^[1]
  • Around this date, the Hereford Mappa Mundi is prepared in Hereford Cathedral.^[2]
• 1301
  • 7 February - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.^[3]
  • First War of Scottish Independence: England secures control of Scotland south of the River Forth.
• 1302
  • 26 January - Robert I of Scotland makes a truce with Edward I.^[1]
• 1303
  • 1 February - Edward I issues the Carta Mercatoria, allowing foreign merchants free entry and departure with their goods.^[4]
  • 24 February - First War of Scottish Independence: Scottish victory at the Battle of Roslin.
  • 20 May - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to England from France.^[3]
  • Winter - Wars of Scottish Independence: Edward I resumes his campaign against William Wallace and others in Scotland, holding court in Dunfermline Abbey.
  • Approximate date - The Avoirdupois system of weights and measures comes into use.
• 1304
  • February - John "Red" Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, negotiates a peace with England in the Wars of Scottish Independence at Strathord near Perth.
  • March - Scottish Parliament submits to English rule.^[1]
  • 20 July - Fall of Stirling Castle: Edward I takes the last rebel stronghold in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
• 1305
  • 5 August - English troops capture William Wallace, leader of the resistance to the English occupation of Scotland.
  • 23 August - Wallace executed in London.^[5]
  • September - Edward I issues ordinances for the government of Scotland.^[1]
  • Edward I issues the first commission of Trailbaston.^[5]
• 1306
  • 1 February - Pope Clement V confirms Ralph Baldock as Bishop of London.^[6]
  • May - Hugh the younger Despenser, favourite of Edward of Caernarvon, is married to heiress Eleanor de Clare.
  • May - Great festival at Westminster to celebrate the knighthood of Edward of Caernarvon.^[1]
  • 19 June - Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels at the Battle of Methven.^[5]
  • In London, a city ordinance decrees that heating with coal is forbidden when parliament is in session. The ordinance is not particularly effective.
  • Completion of Wells Cathedral chapter house, in Decorated Gothic style.^[1]
• 1307
  • January - Statute of Carlisle forbids religious foundations from sending money to their mother houses abroad.^[1]
  • 10 May - Battle of Loudon Hill: Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat an English army.^[1]
  • 7 July - Edward II becomes King of England following the death of Edward I whilst campaigning in Scotland.^[5]
  • 6 August - Edward II's alleged lover Piers Gaveston is made Earl of Cornwall.^[1]
• 1308
  • 9–11 January - Knights Templar arrested in England;^[7] Edward II appropriates their lands.^[1]
  • 25 January - King Edward II marries Isabella of France.^[5]
  • 25 February - Coronation of King Edward II.^[3]
  • 18 May - Edward forced to banish Piers Gaveston by his barons.^[5]
• 1309
  • 27 July - Parliament allows Gaveston to return in exchange for an agreement to reform the royal administration.^[1]
  • Sumptuary law attempts to curb conspicuous consumption of food by the nobility.
  • Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, bought by the Percy family, later Earls of Northumberland.

Births

• 1300
  • 1 June - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (died 1338)
  • Laurence Minot, poet (died 1352)
• 1301
  • 5 August - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, politician (died 1330)
  • 24 September - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, soldier (died 1372)
  • William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury, nobleman (died 1344)
• 1304
  • William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon
• 1343 Geoffrey Chaucer, writer/poet (died 1400)

Deaths

• 1302
  • 9 March - Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel (born 1267)
• 1304
  • 27 September - John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier
• 1306
  • Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (born 1270)
• 1307
  • 7 April - Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I of England (born 1271)
  • 7 July - King Edward I of England (born 1239)^[3]

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 93–96. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. "The Mappa Mundi, Hereford Cathedral website". Archived from the original on 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
4. Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1303". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
5. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 152–154. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
6. Robert Bartlett, The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages, p 17
7. Perkins, Clarence (July 1909). "The Trial of the Knights Templars in England". English Historical Review 24 (95): 432–447. doi:10.1093/ehr/xxiv.xcv.432. JSTOR 550361.

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