1308

1308

1308

Calendar year

Year 1308 (MCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Quick Facts Millennium:, Centuries: ...
Edward II cavorting with his favourite Piers Gaveston (left) by Marcus Stone
Quick Facts

Events

January – March

  • January 25 – King Edward II marries the 13-year-old Isabella of France, daughter of King Philip IV of France ("Philip the Fair"). The marriage takes place at Boulogne and Edward leaves his friend and favourite, Piers Gaveston, as regent in his absence. Isabella's wardrobe indicates her wealth and style – she has dresses of silk, velvet, taffeta and cloth along with numerous furs; she has over 72 headdresses and coifs. Isabella brings with her two gold crowns, gold and silver dinnerware and 419 yards of linen. Meanwhile, Edward alienates the nobles by placing Gaveston in such a powerful position, who react by signing the Boulogne agreement on January 31.[1][2]
  • February 1 – Herman I the Tall Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (and co-ruler of Brandenburg with Otto IV), dies and is succeeded as Margrave by his son John V.
  • February 25 – Edward II is crowned at Westminster Abbey under the guidance of Henry Woodlock, bishop of Winchester. During the ceremony, Piers Gaveston is given the honour of carrying the crown. At the banquet that followed, Edward spends more time with Gaveston than with his wife Isabella of France. Isabella's family, who have travelled with her from France, leave to report back to Philip IV of Edward's favouritism for Gaveston over Isabella. As part of the coronation, Edward swears an oath to uphold "the rightful laws and customs which the community of the realm shall have chosen".[3][4]
  • March 8 – King Denis of Portugal, "the Poet King", grants Póvoa de Varzim a charter, the Foral, giving royal lands to 54 families, who found a municipality known as Póvoa around Praça Velha.
  • March 18 – Brothers Andrei Rurik and Lev II Rurik become the co-monarchs of Ruthenia (now part of Ukraine and Poland, with a capital at Lviv), upon the death of their father, King Yuri I of Galicia. The two brothers will reign until their deaths in 1323 at the Battle of Berestia against Mongol invaders.

April – June

July – September

October – December

By place

Europe

England

Asia

By topic

Literature


Births

Deaths

References

  1. [1]
    Weir, Alison (2006). Queen Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England, p. 25. London: Pimlico Books. ISBN 978-0-7126-4194-4.
  2. [2]
    Castor, Helen (2011). She-Wolves: The Woman Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, p. 227. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-5712-3706-7.
  3. [3]
    Haines, Roy Martin (2003). King Edward II: His Life, his reign and its aftermath, 1284–1330, pp. 56–58. Montreal, Canada and Kingston, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-3157-4.
  4. [4]
    Philips, Seymour (2011). Edward II, pp. 140–141. New Haven, CT & London. UK: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-17802-9.
  5. [5]
    Armstrong, Pete (2002). Osprey: Bannockburn 1314 – Robert Bruce's great victory, p. 15. ISBN 1-85532-609-4.
  6. [6]
    Maddicot, J. R. (1970). Thomas of Lancaster, 1307–1322, p. 73. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821837-1.
  7. [7]
    Hamilton, J. S. (1988). Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, 1307–1312: Politics and Patronage in the Reign of Edward II, p. 53. Detroit; London: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2008-2.
  8. [8]
    Kishori Saran Lal, History of the Khaljis (1290-1320) (The Indian Press, 1950) p.135
  9. [9]
    Barbara Frale, and Umberto Eco, The Templars: The Secret History Revealed (translation of Il papato e il processo ai templari) (Arcade Publishing, 2009) p. 168
  10. [10]
    Luciano Petech, Medieval History of Nepal (Fondata Da Giuseppe Tucci, 1984) p.109
  11. [11]
    Albert Failler, "L'occupation de Rhodes par les Hospitaliers", in Revue des études Byzantines (1992) pp. 113–135
  12. [12]
    Peter Jackson (2003). The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History, p. 198. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54329-3.
  13. [13]
    Peter Lock, The Franks in the Aegean, 1204–1500 (Longman Publishing, 1995) p.104
  14. [14]
    Seymour Phillips, Edward II (Yale University Press, 2011) p.152
  15. [15]
    Kishori Saran Lal, History of the Khaljis (1290-1320) (The Indian Press, 1950) p.135
  16. [16]
    Brzezinski, Richard (1998). History of Poland: The Piast Dynasty, p. 24. ISBN 83-7212-019-6.
  17. [17]
    Jones, Michael (2000). The New Cambridge Medieval History, p. 530. Vol. VI: c. 1300–1415. Cambridge University Press.
  18. [18]
    Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 154. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  19. [19]
    Joseph F. O'Callaghan (2011). The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait, p. 122. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-2302-6.
  20. [20]
    John Joseph Saunders (1971). The History of the Mongol Conquests, p. 79. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  21. [21]
    Bernard Grun, (1991). The Timetables of History, p. 185. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
  22. [22]
    Barbour, John. The Bruce, translation by A. A. H. Douglas, 1964.
  23. [23]
    Fordun, John of, Chronicles of the Scottish Nation, ed. W. F. Skene, 1972.
  24. [24]
    Abraham Eraly (2015). The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate, p. 178. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-93-5118-658-8.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 1308, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.