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Year 1315 (MCCCXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Spring – Great Famine of 1315–1317: A famine and pestilence sweeps over Europe, and exacts so frightful a toll of human life that the phenomenon is to be regarded as one of the most impressive features of the period. It covers almost the whole of Northern Europe; the current territory of Ireland, England, France, Netherlands, Germany and Poland. The adverse weather conditions, the ensuing crop failures, and the sharp rise in food prices cause an acute shortage of food that will last for two years. The famine causes millions of deaths (according to estimates, around 10 to 25% of the urban population dies).
• August 19 – King Louis X (the Quarrelsome) marries the 22-year-old Clementia of Hungary (or Clemence), daughter of Charles Martel of Anjou (titular king of Hungary). He and his second wife are five days later crowned at Reims. Louis becomes the 12th Capetian ruler of France. After his coronation, he passes the throne of Navarre to his younger brother, Philip II (the Tall).
• August – Louis X (the Quarrelsome) issues a charter in which he allows the Jews to come back to France. They are allowed to stay in the country only for 12 years, and are forced to wear armbands at all times; Jews can only live in designated communities and are forbidden from usury. Through this, the Jewish community depends upon the king for their right to protection.
• August – Louis X (the Quarrelsome) mobilizes an army along the Flemish border. He prohibits the export of grain and other goods to Flanders – which proves challenging to enforce. Louis pressures officers of the Church at the borderlands, as well as King Edward II, to support his effort to prevent Spanish merchant vessels from trading with the embargoed Flemish cities.
• August 29 – Battle of Montecatini: The Pisan army (some 20,000 men) led by Uguccione della Faggiuola defeats the allied forces of Florence and Naples. During the battle, Philip I manages to escape, but his son Charles of Taranto and his brother Peter Tempesta are killed.
• November 15 – Battle of Morgarten: The Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria on the shore of the Ägerisee, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.
• December – Sultan Ismail I orders the Jews of Granada to wear the yellow badge in public.

England

• July 22 – Siege of Carlisle: Scottish forces led by King Robert I (the Bruce) besiege Carlisle Castle, but the stronghold holds out, due to a well-conducted defense organized by Andrew Harclay. After several unsuccessful attacks, Robert is forced to withdraw on August 1.
• September – Battle of Moiry Pass: Scottish-Irish forces under Edward Bruce, brother of Robert I (the Bruce), defeat an Irish garrison at Moyry Pass, as part of his attempt to revive the High Kingship of Ireland.
• October – Banastre Rebellion: A group of English knights start an uprising in Lancashire and revenge themselves on Thomas of Lancaster. After the rebellion, Liverpool Castle is granted to Robert de Holland.
• Autumn – Scottish forces under James Douglas (the Black) raid Copeland and plunder St. Bees Priory.

Asia

• August 11 – Hōjō Mototoki becomes ruler (shogun) and regent (shikken) of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan.

By topic

Cities and Towns

• Cairo, capital of the Mamluk Sultanate becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Hangzhou in Mongolian China (approximate date).
• Siegfried II, bishop of Hildesheim, provides Dassel in Lower Saxony, Germany with city rights.
• Vlissingen (or Flushing) in the Netherlands is granted city rights.

Births

• February 22 – Chunghye, Korean crown prince and king (d. 1344)
• April 5 – James III (the Unfortunate), king of Majorca (d. 1349)
• May 20 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen consort of France (d. 1349)
• date unknown
  • Gi (or Qi), Chinese concubine and empress consort (d. 1369)
  • Pierre d'Orgemont, French politician and chancellor (d. 1389)
  • Roger Beauchamp, English nobleman and chamberlain (d. 1380)

Deaths

• January 15 – Gyeguk, Korean queen consort of Goryeo (b. 1285)
• March 10 – Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic and writer (b. 1244)
• April 30
  • Enguerrand de Marigny, French Grand Chamberlain (b. 1260)
  • Margaret of Burgundy, queen consort of France (b. 1290)
• May 1 – Margaret of Brandenburg, German noblewoman (b. 1270)
• May 9 – Hugh V, French nobleman (House of Burgundy) (b. 1294)
• June 27 – Mieszko I, Polish nobleman and knight (House of Piast)
• July 24 – Otto II, German nobleman and prince (House of Ascania)
• August 12 – Guy de Beauchamp, English nobleman and magnate
• August 18 – Hōjō Hirotoki, Japanese nobleman and regent (b. 1279)
• August 29 – (Battle of Montecatini)
  • Charles of Taranto, Italian nobleman (House of Anjou) (b. 1296)
  • Peter Tempesta (Storm), Italian nobleman and knight (b. 1291)
• August 31 – Andrea Dotti, Italian nobleman and preacher (b. 1256)
• November 24 – Fulk FitzWarin, English nobleman and landowner
• December 6 – William Greenfield, English rector and archbishop
• December 13 – Gaston I, Occitan nobleman and knight (b. 1287)
• date unknown
  • Abu al-Ghayth ibn Abi Numayy, Hasanid ruler of Mecca
  • Adolph VI, German nobleman, knight and ruler (b. 1256)
  • Esclaramunda of Foix, queen consort of Majorca (b. 1250)
  • Henry of Treviso, German hermit, pilgrim and saint (b. 1250)
  • Ibn al-Raqqam, Andalusian astronomer and jurist (b. 1250)
  • Jean Pitard, French physician, surgeon and writer (b. 1228)
  • John I, French nobleman (House of Chalon-Arlay) (b. 1258)
  • Juan Núñez II, Spanish nobleman (House of Lara) (b. 1276)
  • Lanfranc of Milan, Italian cleric, surgeon and writer (b. 1250)
  • Lu Zhi, Chinese official, politician, poet and writer (b. 1243)
  • Margaret of Villehardouin, Latin noblewoman and princess
  • Nichigen, Japanese Buddhist monk and disciple (b. 1262)
  • Robert FitzPayne, English nobleman, knight and governor
  • Stephen Ákos, Hungarian nobleman and oligarch (b. 1260)

References

1. Jordan, W. C. (1996). The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the early Fourteenth Century, pp. 169–170. Princeton University Press.
2. Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995): An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. 2017. p. 568. ISBN 9781351665667.
3. Chazan, Robert (1979). Church, State, and Jews in the Middle Ages, pp. 79–80. Behrman House.
4. Jordan, William Chester (2005). Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Therines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians, pp. 151–152. Princeton University Press.
5. Kelly, Samantha (2003). The New Solomon: Robert of Naples (1309–1343) and Fourteenth Century Kingship, p. 228. Brill.
6. McCrackan, William Denison (1901). The rise of the Swiss republic: a history. H. Holt.
7. Ulysse R. (1891). Les Signes d'Infamie. Translated by Adler C. and Jacobs J. in the Jewish Encyclopedia: The unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.
8. Armstrong, Pete (2002). Osprey: Bannockburn 1314 – Robert Bruce's great victory, p. 86. ISBN 1-85532-609-4.
9. McNamee, Colin (2010). Rogers, Clifford J. (ed.). The Oxford encyclopedia of medieval warfare and military technology, volume 1, pp. 127–128. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195334036.
10. Armstrong, Pete (2002). Osprey: Bannockburn 1314 – Robert Bruce's great victory, p. 83. ISBN 1-85532-609-4.
11. Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, p. 471. Vol III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1449966386.
12. Wilson, Katharina M.; Wilson, M. (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6.

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