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Louis IV (German: Ludwig; 1 April 1282 – 11 October 1347), called the Bavarian ( Ludwig der Bayer, Latin: Ludovicus Bavarus ), was King of the Romans from 1314, King of Italy from 1327, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1328 until his death in 1347. Louis' election as king of Germany in 1314 was controversial, as his Habsburg cousin Frederick the ...
With his northern borders secured, Edward felt free to continue his major offensive against France, laying siege to the town of Calais. The operation was the greatest English venture of the Hundred Years' War, involving an army of 32,000 men. The siege started on 4 September 1346, and lasted until the town surrendered on 3 August 1347.
Life. John was born on either 24 or 30 June 1286 [a] and baptised on 7 November of that year. [1] He was the son of William de Warenne, the only son of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey. His mother was Joan, daughter of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford . Warenne was only six months old when his father died.
Catherine of Siena. Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), known as Catherine of Siena ( Italian: Caterina da Siena ), was an Italian mystic and pious laywoman who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy. Canonized in 1461, she is revered as a saint and as a Doctor of the ...
Henry O'Neill ( Irish: Anrí Ó Néill) was a king of Tyrone and lord of Clandeboye in medieval Ireland. He was the son of Brian O'Neill, and a grandson of Hugh Boy O'Neill. O'Neill succeeded his kinsman Donnell O'Neill as king of Tyrone in 1325. In 1338 O'Neill as part of a peace treaty was granted a war-ravaged region of south Antrim, from ...
Bavor, římský král z rodu Wittelsbachů (* 1292) 14. října – Petr I. z Rožmberka, český šlechtic (* 1291) 15. listopadu – Jakub I. z Urgellu, aragonský infant a hrabě z Urgellu (* 1321) – Jan z Viktringu, opat cisterciáckého kláštera ve Viktringu v Korutanech (* cca 1270) – Johana III. Burgundská, burgundská ...
The Battle of Crotoy was a naval battle which occurred on 25 June 1347 at the mouth of the Somme off the Le Crotoy, when a French fleet of 40 ships gathered in attempted to relieve Calais, [1] where an English army under the command of King Edward III of England was besieging the French town during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War ...
