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(Note: Although some of the people named herein no longer "play" with Clann Fhaoilcheire in the SCA, they are still part of our history and so are still included.)
| Year | Historical | Clann Fhaoilcheire |
|---|---|---|
| 1284 | Statute of Rhuddlan (4 Mar); Alfonso X, King of Castile-Leon, dies (4 Apr); Edward II (of Caernarvon), 4th son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile (daughter of Ferdinand III), born (25 Apr or 25 Aug?); The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Germany, takes 130 children (26 June); Sturla Thordsson, Law Man and Skald, dies on his 70th bithday (29 Jul); execution of Majd al-Mulk (14 Aug) | |
| 1285 | A ghost dances at the wedding of Alexander III, King of Scots, and Joleteta, daughter of the Count de Dreux, at Jedburgh (14 Apr); Philip IV "the Fair" succeeds to French throne (10 May); King John of Jerusalem and Cyprus dies (20 May); Hospitalers surrender Marqab to Kala'un (23 May); St. Philip Benizi dies (23 Aug) | |
| 1286 | Alexander III, King of Scots, killed when thrown from his horse (16 Mar); Othon de Grandson returns to Gascony (6 Apr); Henry, son of King Hugh III, crowned King of Jerusalem (5 or 15 Aug) | |
| 1287 | Pope Honorius IV dies(3 Apr); revolt of Rhys ap Meredudd (8 Jun) | |
| 1288 | Election of Pope Nicholas IV (13 Feb); Scotland legalizes women proposing marriage to men on Leap Day - if the man refused, he was required to pay a fine. (29 Feb); Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captures Tripoli (or 1288?) (29 Apr); Battle of Woeringen (5 Jun); Sa'd ad-Daula becomes Supreme Inspector of Taxes in Persia(6 Jun) | Muirghein born (Aug) |
| 1289 | Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captures Tripoli (or 1288?) (29 Apr); Othon de Grandson and William Hotham leave for Italy (10 May); coronation of Charles of Salerno as King of Sicily (29 May); Alfonso, King of Aragon dies (18 Jul) | |
| 1290 | Edward II betrothed to Margaret of Scotland (Mar.); Beatrice, Dante's inspiration, dies (9 Jun); Murder of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (10 Jul); Edward I expels the Jews from England (18 Jul or 31 Aug); a treaty safeguarding liberties of Scots against the English (18 Jul); Queen Margaret a.k.a the Maid of Norway ("Eiriksdotter") died en route from Norway to Scotland (26 Sep) OR Margaret of Scotland dies in Orkney (Oct.); Eleanor of Castile dies | Louisa born (approx.) |
| 1291 | Siege of Acre by Islam begins (5 Apr); a body of Templars make a night raid on the Moslem camp at the Siege of Acre and are all killed (14 Apr); Rudolph Hapsburg purchases the rights to govern Lucerne, Switz. (16 Apr); Henry II of Lusignan, King of Cyprus, arrives at Acre with reinforcements (4 May); Edward I of England invites the Scots clergy and nobility to meet with him at Norham, to discuss who shall be King of Scots (10 May); Moslems take the Maudite Tower of Acre (16 May); Fall of Acre to the Mameluks--end of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (18 May); William de Beaujeu, 21st Master of the Templars, dies (18 May); the Templar's Temple at Acre is destroyed (28 May); Edward of England summons the Northern levies to Norham, and speaks of his hereditary right to the Crown of Scotland (3 Jun); competitors for the Scottish throne, meeting at Northam on the Tweed, agreed to give entire possession of Scotland to Edward I while he decided on the next King of Scots. (4 Jun); Bruce, Baliol, and seven others acknowledge Edward I of England as sovereign over Scotland (5 Jun); Queen Eleanor, widow of King Henry III of England, dies (25 June); the Castle of the Sea (Sidon) falls to the Mameluks (14 Jul); Rudolph I, King of Germany, dies (15 Jul); Mameluks take Haifa (30 Jul); Mameluks take Beirut--end of Latin resence in Palestine and Syria (31 Jul); The Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation (1 Aug); Castle Pilgrim (Outremer) abandoned by the Templars--end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land (14 Aug); Isabella (daughter of Philip IV of France and wife of Edward II) born (?); James II succeeds Alfonso III as king of Aragon (1291-1327) | |
| 1292 | First Scottish Parliament assembles at Scone (9 Feb); Massacre of Berwick by Edward I of England (30 Mar); Pope Nicolas IV dies (4 Apr); Adolph of Nassau becomes King of Germany (5 May); Roger Bacon dies (11 Jun); Robert de Bruce (grandfather of King Robert I) loses claim to Scottish throne to John de Baliol when succession suit decided by Edward I (17 Nov). Baliol crowned (30 Nov) | |
| 1293 | Tibald Gaudin, 22nd Master of the Templars, dies (16 Apr); earthquake at Kamakura, Japan (20 May) | |
| 1294 | Scottish throne to John Baliol (date?); Kublai Khan dies (12 Feb); Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V (4 Jul) | |
| 1295 | Death of St. Gil of Santarem (14 May); Scotland and France sign anti-English covenant (4 Jul); Marco Polo brings pasta recipe to Italy | |
| 1296 | Bull of Pope Boniface VIII "Clericis Laicos" (2 Mar); Scots War of Independence begins (28 Mar); Edward's army enters Scotland and destroys Berwick (Mar); Scots defeated by Edward I of Endland at Battle of Dunbar (27 Apr); Pope (Saint) Celestine V dies (19 May); Duke du Brabant murdered (26 June); John Baliol resigns crown to Edward I (10 Jul), who annexes Scotland to England; Scottish coronation stone "moved" from Scone to Westminster by Edward I of England (8 Aug); a priest, Matthew of York, and William le Waleys, are accused of burglary of 3 shillings worth of beer, in Perth (8 Aug); John, King of Bohemia, born (10 Aug) | Bran born (in Ireland) |
| 1297 | Death of St. Margaret of Cortona (22 Feb); the Pope gives Corsica and Sardinia to James II, King of Aragon (4 Apr); Wallace leads men who killed William Hesilrig, sheriff of Lanark (May); Battle of Cambuskenneth (10 Sep); Wallace defeats John de Warenne, earl of Surrey and English governor of Scotland, near Stirling Bridge (11 or 14? Sep); Edward I confirms the Charters with additions (12 Oct) | Louisa goes with her father when he gets involved with Wallace; Rodhlann born (in Ireland); Seosaidh born |
| 1298 | Wallace routs English at the Battle of Black Ironside (12 Jun); Battle of Goellheim: an army under Albert of Austria defeats and kills Adolf of Nassua near Worms, Germany (2 Jul); Edward I of England crosses the Tweed at Coldstream (3 Jul); Edward I defeats Scots (incl. Wallace) at Falkirk (apparent first use of the English longbow in formal warfare) (22 Jul); Wallace next seen in France; coronation of Albert I, King of Germany (24 Aug) | |
| 1299 | Osman Emir of Ottoman Turks begins reign (ends 1326); Edward I of England marries Margaret (sister of Philip IV of France) (4 Sep) | Branwen born (approx.) |
| 1300 | Edward I invades Scotland (June-Nov.); first Papal Jubilee; the beginning (in the tale) of Dante's "Inferno" | Caitriona born |
| 1301 | Edward I revives the title Prince of Wales, confers it on his son Edward of Caernarvon (7 Feb); Hugh Picard runs over and kills Petronilla, three year old daughter of William de Wyntonia, with his horse while she was playing in the street (4 May); coronation of Charles I, King of Hungary (15 Jun); Richard le Mazon, aged 8, drowns while playing on a bridge (19 Jul) | Connor born |
| 1302 | Anglo-Scot 9-month truce (26 Jan); Dante threatened with burning should he return to Florence (10 Mar); supposed marriage date of Romeo and Juliet (11 Mar); Matins of Bruges (17 Mar or 18 May?); the weaver Peter de Coningk leads a massacre of the Flemish oligarchs (18 May); England regains Gascony (20 May); Robert Bruce deserts to English; Philip IV (the Fair) holds "States General" at Paris; peace of Caltabellotta between Naples and Sicily; Battle of Courtrai (?) | Muirghein (14) moves to Ireland after her father is killed; Eile born |
| 1303 | Battle of Roslin (English invasion of Scotland halted) (24 Feb); St. Ives (Ivo) of Brittany dies (19 May); peace treaty signed between England and France over the town of Gascony (20 May); Pope Benedict XI dies (7 Jul); Hugh de Pairaud, Treasurer of the Templars, signs a private agreement of mutual support with Philip IV "the Fair" of France (10 Aug); Battle of Mons-et-Pevele (18 Aug); Pope Boniface VIII captured at Anagni | |
| 1304 | Muhammad ibn Battutah, Moroccan Arab traveler and travel writer born (24 Feb); Pope Benedict XI excommunicates William de Nogaret for his part in leading the attack on Pope Boniface (7 Jun); Petrarch born (20 Jul) | Eoin born |
| 1305 | Eye glasses mentioned in a sermon preached in Italy (23 Feb); Queen Joan of France, dies (4 Apr); Papacy transferred to Avignon; Clement V elected Pope (June 1305-1314); William Wallace captured near Glasgow (3 Aug), arrives in London and is tried and convicted for treason (22 Aug), and executed (23 Aug); St. Nicholas of Tolentino dies (10 Sep); new "constitution" partitions Scotland into four judicial areas (Sep); Edward I of England standardizes the yard and acre | Louisa at Wallace's execution |
| 1306 | Murder of the Red Comyn (10 Feb); Robert Bruce crowned King of Scots at Scone (25 or 27? Mar); Pope Clement V excommunicates Robert Bruce (18 May); King Edward I of England gives the Duchy of Aquitaine to his son (20 May); Edward II knighted (22 May); King Philip IV "the Fair" of France gives a secret commission to William de Nogaret (see 21 Jul) (19 or 21 June); Robert Bruce defeated by DeValence (Earl of Pembroke) at Methven (26 June) and Dalry (by the Lord of Lorne on 11 Aug); secret commission from Philip "The Fair" results in the arrest of and confiscation of all the goods and money of, every Jew in France (21 Jul); King Philip of France arrests and imprisons all Jews in France (22 Jul); Wenceslas III, King of Poland, murdered (8 Aug); Bruce's wife and other Scottish ladies captured by English (held three years), and dozens of his supporters executed | |
| 1307 | The Douglas Larder: Douglas Castle, Scotland, was captured and destroyed by it's owner, the Black Douglas (19 Mar); Two of Bruce's brothers captured and executed (spring?); Marmaduke de Tweng's first Faire opens at Kendal, England (29 Apr); Robert I, "the Bruce" Scotland defeats the Earl of Pembroke at the Battle of Loudon Hill (10 May); Edward I dies at Burgh-on-Sands at the "very great age" of 68 (7 Jul) (or 7 Mar?), succeeded by Edward II; the Templars hold a General Chapter meeting in Paris (24 Jul); Pope Clement writes to Philip "the Fair" (24 Aug); Philip IV "the Fair" of France gives out a sealed mandate, not to be opened until 12 October (14 Sep); destruction of the Order of Knights Templar (1307-1312); "bitter civil war" in Scotland as Bruce consolidates power (3-4 years?) | Seosaidh begins fostering in England |
| 1308 | Edward II marries Isabella of France (25 Jan); Coronation of Edward II; King Albert of Germany murdered by his disinherited nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands (1 May); Battle of Inverurie (23 May); the Consistory of Poitiers (29 May); the Pope summons witnesses for the Templar trials (8 Aug); senior officers of the Templars interviewed by three Cardinals at Chinon, France (17 Aug); English Common Law stops a pair of French Inquisitors who have arrived in England to prosecute the Templars (13 Sep); Robert Bruce holds a parliament at Ardchattan in Gaelic; death of Duns Scotus | Maire born |
| 1309 | Pope Clement V arrives in Avignon (9 Mar) | |
| 1310 | Scottish clergy recognizes Robert Bruce as king; Edward II forced to appoint Lord Ordainers for better ruling of England; Henry VII's expedition to Italy; 54 Knights Templars burned in France (12 May); coronation of Charles I of Hungary (27 Aug); Edward III born (13 Nov) | |
| 1311 | Seosaidh and Branwen first meet | |
| 1312 | Royal Embassy arrives in Vienne from Philip IV "the Fair," of France, to convince the Pope to condemn the Templars (17 Feb); Philip IV "the Fair," of France arrives in Vienne at the head of an army, which convinces to Pope to condemn the Templars (20 Mar); Pope Clement V dissolves the Knights Templar (22 Mar or 3 Apr); Council of Vienne abolishes the Templars and condemns the Beguines (6 May); Piers Galveston, Earl of Cornwall, beheaded (19 June); Coronation of Henry VII as Holy Roman Emperor (29 June) | |
| 1313 | Robert Bruce captures Dumfries, Scotland (7 Feb); Edinburgh Castle retaken from the English (14 Mar); Coronation of Edward Bruce as King of Ireland (1 May); Robert Bruce lands on the Isle of Man (18 May); Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, dies (24 Aug); Baliol dies? | Rodhlann badly injured in tavern fire, and Muirghein heals him; Seosaidh's father killed in clan skirmish, making Seosaidh Laird of Duncreig; Muirghein (whose uncle was killed in same skirmish) returns from Ireland to become Baintighearna of Wolfestead |
| 1314 | Burning of 39 Knights Templar in France, including 23rd (and Last) Master of the Templars, Jacques de Molay (18 Mar); Pope Clement V dies (20 Apr); writs of summons to military service sent to eight earls to rendevoux at Berwick (10 June); Edward II relieves the siege of Edinburgh (21 June); the army of Edward II crosses the Bannockburn (23 June); Battle of Bannockburn -- Robert Bruce's victory over Edward II (24 June); | Domhnall leads the MacFaoilcheire's, including Seosaidh (16), at Bannockburn; Louisa's father Dubhgaill and Marie's father? killed; Louisa and Seosaidh meet |
| 1315 | Invasion of Ireland by Edward Bruce (25 May 1315-1319); Raymond Lully dies (29 Mar); A Scots National Assembly is held at Ayr (27 Apr); Raymond Lully dies (29 June); Gates of Paris treacherously opened for Charles, King of Navarre (31 Jul); Pisa defeats Florence at battle of Montecatini (29 Aug); Edmund the Butler given land as reward for putting down English rebels (1 Sep); Battle of Connor, victory for Edward Bruce in Ireland (10 Sep); privateer Thomas Dun sailed into Holyhead, captured an English ship, and over-ran the isle of Anglesay (12 Sep) | |
| 1316 | End of the revolt by Llywelyn Bren against the Normans (16 Mar); Edward Bruce crowned High King of Ireland; Robert II of Scotland (d. 1390) born to Walter III and Margory (daughter of Robert Bruce) (2 Mar); King Louis X of France dies (5 Jun); Battle of Athenry (Irish rising in support of Edward Bruce) (10 Aug); Robert I "the Bruce" defeated by the Lord of Lorne at the Battle of Dalry (11 Aug); artillery first used in warfare, at Battle of Crecy (France) (26 Aug); Philip V ascends French throne | Seosaidh & Branwen wed |
| 1317 | The French Inquisition is set after the Spirituals (17 Feb) | |
| 1318 | Cornerstone laid for a monastery endowed by Othon de Grandson (18 Apr); Edward Bruce killed in Battle of Faughart, near Dundalk, by Baron Roger Mortimer (14 Oct) | |
| 1319 | John II the Good (future king of France) born (16 Apr); Scots defeat English at Battle of Chapter of Myton (20 Sep) | Dylan born to Muirghein |
| 1320 | Declaration of Arbroath (Scotland) (6 Apr); war between France and Flanders ends (2 Jun) | |
| 1321 | The Four Martyrs of Tana killed in Muslim India (7 Apr); Commemoration of Yunus Emre, Sufi poet, mystic (1 May); Dante Alighieri dies (14 Sep) | Connor goes to France |
| 1322 | Philip V of France assassinated by unknown person (June), succeeded by Charles IV; first mention of folk hero Robin Hood; Statute of York; Commons recognized as an essential part of Parliament | Rafael arrives in Scotland (spring); Seosaidh becomes Chief (late May); Connor returns to Scotland (June); Domhnall dies (Nov. or Dec.) |
| 1323 | Truce proclaimed in the Scottish Wars, to last for thirteen years (30 May); Dame Alice Kyteler found guilty of witchcraft, but escapes, with Sarah de Meath (2 Jul) | Heather crosses over (Jan.) & Muirghein becomes "Seanachaidh" |
| 1324 | David II (son of Robert Bruce) born (5 Mar); Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, excommunicated (23 Mar); an entry in the Jornal de la Chambre of King Edward II shows pence a day paid to one "Robyn Hod" for service to the King (25 Apr); John of Nottingham and Robert Marshall test their witchcraft murder plot on an image of Richard de Sowe (3 May) | Connor leaves again for Viking lands (*); Eoin appointed Seosaidh's Galloglass; Seosaidh awarded Arms (March); Branwen returns to Wales (June) (*); Seosaidh forms the Black Storm (Sep.); Rafael adopted (Nov.) |
| 1325 | Ibn Batuta leaves Tangier to make Pilgrimage to Mecca (does not return for 29 years) (13 Jun); Alfonso XI of Castile comes of age | Siobhan nic Collach appointed Steward of Duncreig, House Darkhawk (arts) formed (May); Muirghein and Rodhlann betrothed, and Muirghein awarded Arms (Sep); Seosaidh and Siobhan betrothed, Daniel recognized, Becky adopted (Nov.) |
| 1326 | Louis I (the Great), king of Hungary & Poland, born (5 Mar); Brusa, Anatolia, taken by Orkhan (Ottoman) (6 Apr); Isabella, wife of Edward II of England, and her lover Roger Mortimer invade England and capture the king; Edward III crowned (Xmas Day) | Muirghein and Rodhlann wed (Feb); Seosaidh and Siobhan wed, Dylan's first kilting (May); Louisa crosses over (Dec) |
| 1327 | Edward II deposed by Parliament and murdered at Berkeley Castle (died 21 Sep?); Edward III proclaimed King of England (13 Jan); Coronation of King Edward III of England (29 Jan or 1 Feb); Chartering of the Most Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths of England (30 Mar); Petrarch meets Laura (his inspiration) (6 Apr); James II of Aragon succeeded by son Alfonso IV; Slavs of Tver, Russia, massacre the Mongol population (15 Aug); St. Roch dies (16 Aug) | Rafael and House Darkhawk (including Becky) leave Clan (*) |
| 1328 | King Edward III of England re-marries Phillippa of Hainaut (30 Jan); Charles IV, "the Fair," King of France, dies (1 Feb); Treaty of Edinburgh: Scots independence recognized (17 Mar); Sir Othon de Grandson dies (5 Apr); English Parliament ratifies Treaty of Northampton, acknowledging Robert Bruce's kingship (4 May); Pope John XXII forces William of Ockham to flee from Avignon (26 May); coronation of Philip IV as King of France (29 May); Marriage of David II, King of Scotland (age 4), to Joanna, sister of Edward III of England (12 Jul); Philip VI of France defeats Flemish revolt at battle of Cassel (23 Aug) (or Mount Cassel, 24 Aug?) | |
| 1329 | Earl of Kent beheaded (9 Mar); Robert Bruce dies of leprosy (7 June), succeeded by his son David II (1329-1371) (NOTE: He was 5, and in France until 1341); Pope John XXII recognizes the kingship of Robert Bruce (13 Jun) | |
| 1330 | Azzone Visconti takes control of Milan, Italy (15 Mar); Edward the Black Prince born (15 Jun); Serbians defeat Bulgarians, and kill Czar Michael Sisman of Bulgaria (28 Jul); Douglas, "The Good Sir James," dies in Spain (25 Aug) | Briana born to Seosaidh and Siobhan (Aug) |
| 1331 | ||
| 1332 | Randolph, Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland dies (20 Jul); Edward Balliol defeats and kills Donald, Earl of Mar, Regent of Scotland, at the Battle of Dupplin (12 Aug); Edward Balliol (son of John Balliol) crowned at Scone (24 Sep); Edward Balliol deposed by supporters of David II (Dec) | Aislinn born to Seosaidh and Siobhan (Jan) |
| 1333 | English defeat Scots at battle of Halidon Hill (19 Jul) | |
| 1334 | The Mongol Khatun (Princess) Bayalun journeys to Constantinople (14 Jun); Pope John XXII dies at Avignon (4 Dec); Election of Pope Benedict XII (20 Dec); Edward Baliol, King of Scotland, pays homage to Edward III at Blackfriars in Newcastle, gives up five Scottish counties to the English Crown, three months later, the Scottish people turned against him. Edward III brought an army of 50,000 to Newcastle to support Baliol. The King remained on the Borders all winter; Emperor Suko of Japan, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders born | |
| 1335 | Slavery abolished in Sweden; Edward III spends Christmas at Newcastle | Present day for Clan (2007 CE) |
| 1336 | St. Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal dies (8 Jul); discovery of the Canarian Islands (Lanzarotte Malocello) | |
| 1337 | Giotto dies (8 Jan); Edward, son of Edward III of England, becomes the first to bear the title of (Royal) Duke (of Cornwall) (17 Mar); French King Philip VI announces confiscation of Gascony from England - Beginning of the Hundred Years War (24 May) | |
| 1338 | Charles V (the Wise), King of France born (21 Jan); Carlisle Herald presents himself before Edward II (13 Apr); Lionel of Antwerp (third son of Edward III of England) born (29 Nov); Declaration of Rense: Electors of the Holy Roman Empire declare the empire to be a separate entity from the papacy; Treaty of Coblenz forms an alliance between England and the Holy Roman Empire | |
| 1339 | Swiss defeat Burgundians at Laupen (21 Jun) | |
| 1340 | Edward III takes title, "King of France." (26 Jan); Edward III, King of England, sails for Flanders with his army (22 Jun); Naval victory over French fleet at Sluys (off the Flemish coast) gives England the command of the English Channel (24 Jun); Chaucer born (25 Oct); Spanish/Portuguese defeat Moors at Rio Salado (30 Oct); English Parliament passes four statutes providing that taxation shall be imposed only by parliament; birth of John of Gaunt; Jan van Arteveldt and the Flemish rebel against French overlordship. | |
| 1341 | Ivan I Kalita, Grand Prince of Moscow (1328 - 31 Mar 1341) dies; Petrarch crowned Rome's Poet Laureate (8 Apr); Douglas takes Edinburgh Castle from English (17 Apr); St Juliana Falconeri dies (19 Jun) | |
| 1342 | Pope Benedict XII dies (25 Apr); Coronation of Pope Clement VI (19 May); Charles I, King of Hungary dies (16 Jul); English victory over France at MORLAIX (30 Sep); King Edward III of England lands at Brest (19 Oct); David, king of Scotland, and an army of 53,000 horse and foot soldiers besiege Newcastle. are beaten off by Sir John Neville of Hornby, Earl of Moray captured. The Scottish army moved south and captured Durham after a seven day siege (date?) |
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