January 19 – King Edward II of England appoints the Archbishop of York; the Bishops of Carlisle, Worcester, and Winchester; the Earls of Pembroke, Hereford, and Badlesmere; and six other people to negotiate with Scotland for a final peace treaty or an extension of the Pembroke treaty of 1319 before its expiration on Christmas Day.[1]
January 20 – The English Parliament appoints a commission to inquire about illegal confederacies in Wales against the King.[2]
January 30 – The Welsh Earls of Hereford, Arundel, and Surrey, and 26 other people are forbidden from attending any meetings to discuss matters affecting King Edward II.[2]
February 10 – By papal verdict announced in the Polish town of Brześć, the Teutonic Knights are ordered to return the coastal region of Gdańsk Pomerania to Poland, having annexed and occupied it since 1308. The Teutonic Order appeals the judgment and continues fighting against Poland, with a new Polish–Teutonic War breaking out soon afterward.
April 12 – Sweden's governing council votes to bar foreigners from the royal palace, and to request that the Norwegian council admonish the regent Ingeborg to avoid taking advice from foreigners when making decisions. Ingeborg, who was serving as regent for her minor son, King Magnus, ruler of Sweden and Norway, had become infamous for making decisions without consultation from the councils of either of the kingdoms.
April 14 – Prince Wenceslaus of Płock allies with the Teutonic Knights of Poland and signs an agreement at the city of Golub, pledging to prevent Lithuanian troops from passing through his principality.
May 8 – In Egypt's Mamluk Sultanate, a campaign by Muslims starts against the Christian settlements of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Over 60 churches and monasteries are burned.
May 16 – Johan de Bosco, a French person diagnosed with leprosy, claims that a fellow leper, "Geraldus" is attempting to spread their disease by contaminating wells, fountains, and rivers with bags of powder that will give leprosy to anyone who drinks from the water source. Rumors spread in southern France that French Jews are responsible, and is known as the 1321 lepers' plot.[3]
June 6 – Andronikos II Palaiologos concludes a peace agreement and divides the Byzantine Empire in two. Andronikos III is recognized as co-emperor and receives Thrace and Macedonia. He rewards his followers and gives them towns and regions to administer. Adrianople becomes the new capital.[4]
June 9 – Guillaume Agasse, the head of a leper house in Pamiers, claims in a statement to Bishop Jacques Founier (later Pope Benedict XII) that he had learned that more than fifty officials of leper houses had conspired with the Emirate of Granada to spread leprosy throughout France.[5]
July 1 – María de Molina, grandmother of and regent for 12-year-old King Alfonso XI of Castile, dies at the age of 56, two relatives assume the regency and split Castile between themselves while chaos exists inside the Spanish kingdom. Alfonso's uncle, Don Juan Manuel de Ivrea, and cousin Juan de Castilla y Haro (called Juan el Tuerto or Juan the One-Eyed) remain in power until Alfonso XI reaches majority on 13 August 1325.
July 15 – In England, the "Parliament of Whitebands" convenes with only 38 barons present, to remove suspect counsellors to the King.
August 14 – King Edward II agrees to the demands from his barons to send Hugh Despenser the Elder and his son Hugh Despenser the Younger into exile. The Despensers helped Edward in the administration of his financial and land management affairs. This gives them both the opportunity to frustrate the ambitions of the barons and also the chance to enrich themselves.[10]
October 31 – Edward II captures Leeds Castle after Margaret de Clare, wife of Bartholomew Badlesmere refuses Queen Isabella admittance in her husband's absence. When the Queen seeks to force an entry, Lady Badlesmere instructs her archers to shoot at Isabella and her party, six of whom are killed. After Edward occupies the castle, Lady Badlesmere becomes the first woman to ever be imprisoned in the Tower of London. She will be freed on November 3, 1322.[12][13][14]
November 10 – Canonization of Thomas Aquinas: In Italy, a second inquiry begins at Fossanova, as three commissioners (Pandulpho de Sabbello; Petrus Ferri, Bishop of Anagni; and Andreas, Bishop of Terracina) take testimony from over 100 witnesses until November 27.[9]
December 26 – Faced with an invasion of London during the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster, by troops led by the English rebel, the Baron Badlesmere, King Edward II of England offers safe conduct for any rebels who come over to the royalist side, but orders the Sheriff of Gloucester to arrest Badlesmere.[17]
December 31 – the Duke of Mantua completes the siege of Mirandola, taking control of the Duchy, and then orders the castle of Duke Francesco I Pico to be destroyed.[18]
Winter – Syrgiannes Palaiologos switches support to Andronikos II Palaiologos, fleeing to Constantinople. Rewarded with the title of megas doux, he convinces the emperor to resume the war against Andronikos III.[22]
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^Mortimer, Ian (2010). The Greatest Traitor. Vintage Books. p. 109. ISBN9780099552222.
^Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, p. 263. University Michigan Press. ISBN0-472-08260-4.
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^McKisack, May (1959). The Fourteenth Century 1307–1399, p. 64. Oxford History of England. London: Oxford University Press.
^Emery, Anthony (2006). "Southern England". Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300–1500, p. 305. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-58132-5.
^Paul Doherty, Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II (Robinson, 2003) p.86
^Kathryn Warner, Edward II: The Unconventional King (Amberley Publishing, 2014) p.152
^Pompilio Pozzetti, Lettere Mirandolesi scritte al conte Ottavio Greco, Vol. 3 (Tipografia di Torreggiani e compagno, 1835) p.40
^Nicol, Donald M. (1993). The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453 (second ed.), p. 157. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-43991-6.
^Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, p. 251. University Michigan Press. ISBN0-472-08260-4.
^Bartusis, Mark C. (1997). The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society 1204–1453, p. 87. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN0-8122-1620-2.
^Kazhdan, Alexander (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, p. 1997. Oxford University Press. ISBN0-19-504652-8.
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^Ashley, Mike (1999). The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens, p. 551. London: Robinson Publishers. ISBN1-84119-096-9.
^Peter Allan Lorge (2005). War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900–1795, p. 101. Taylor & Francis. ISBN9780415316910.
