1321

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Year 1321 (MCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[]

January–December[]

• c. May–June – Leper scare: Rumours that lepers (acting on the orders of Jews bribed by Moors) are attempting to poison the Christian population spread throughout southern France.
• August 14 – King Edward II of England reluctantly agrees to demands from his barons to send Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester, and his son Hugh Despenser the Younger into exile.^[1]
• October 29 – King Stephen Uroš II Milutin of Serbia dies. His son Stephen Constantine claims the throne, but Constantine's younger half-brother Stephen Uroš III Dečanski succeeds.

Date unknown[]

• The Byzantine civil war of 1321–28 begins, when Andronikos III Palaiologos initiates an uprising against Andronikos II Palaiologos.^[2]
• A bad harvest brings famine in Europe.
• The Anatolian beylik of Teke is established.
• Gračanica monastery in Kosovo is rebuilt by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin.
• Spitakavor Monastery is completed in Armenia.
• The University of Florence is established.^[3]
• The Kebra Negast is translated from Arabic to Ge'ez, according to its colophon.

Births[]

• February 5 – John II, Marquess of Montferrat (d. 1372)
• July 5 – Joan of The Tower, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1362)
• August 29 – John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
• date unknown
  • James I, Count of Urgell
  • Khwaja Bande Nawaz, Sufi saint (d. 1422)
• probable – Emperor John III of Trebizond (d. 1362)

Deaths[]

• January 12 or 1322 – Maria of Brabant, queen consort of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
• January 13 – Bonacossa Borri, Lady of Milan (b. 1254)
• February 25 – Beatrice d'Avesnes, consort of Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg
• March 18 – Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)
• April 8 – Thomas of Tolentino, Italian Franciscan missionary, martyred (b. c. 1255)
• April 17 – Infanta Blanche of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and Urraca of Castile (b. 1259)
• April 27 – Nicolò Albertini, Italian cardinal statesman (b. c. 1250)
• May 31 – Birger, King of Sweden (b. 1280)
• July 1 – María de Molina, queen consort of Castile (b. c. 1265)
• September 13 or 14 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
• October 29 – Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (b. c. 1253)
• November 9 – Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (b. 1243)

• date unknown
  • Marianus III of Arborea, Giudice
  • Mubarak Khan, Khilji regent, murdered
  • Reginald of Burgundy, Count of Montbéliard
  • Witte van Haemstede, Dutch prince (b. 1280/2)
• probable – Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Arab mathematician (b. 1256)

See also[]

• List of state leaders in 1321
• 1321 in Scotland

References[]