1300 to 1399 | Mark Holinshed S His

Done to 1321

1300. Edward I reissues the Charter of the Forest with new clauses. Knights will enforce Magna Carta and sheriffs elected to rule their own counties.

1302.Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam Sanctum which some historians consider one of the most extreme statements of Papal spiritual supremacy ever made.

1305. William Wallace executed in London. A brutal death to deter other rebels.

1307. Statute of Carlisle.......The English statute usually called Statute of Provisors (25 Edw. 3. Stat. 4), otherwise termed "The Statute of Provisors of Benefices", or anciently De provisoribus. This measure was central to a long disagreement between the English kings and the Roman Curia, concerning filling of ecclesiastical benefices.

1307. 7 July Edward I, king for 34 years, died of Dysentery at Burgh-by-Sands near Carlisle.

Edward II is the new king.

1308. 25 February. Coronation of Edward II and his 12 year old Queen Isabella. His boyfriend Piers Gaveston is in close attendance on the king, and carried the crown, which upset the bride and her family and disgusted the barons.

1309 Pope Clement V: 1305–1314 (curia moved to Avignon March 9, 1309 -1377)

1311. Piers Gaveston, the king's boyfriend is exiled to France by the English barons albeit that he is detested by the French king.

1312. May. The Order of the Knights Templar is abolished by Pope Clement V

1312. Back in England Peirs Gaveston was, at Warwick condemned to death.

On 19 June, he was taken out on the road towards Kenilworth as far as Blacklow Hill, here, two Welshmen ran him through with a sword and beheaded him.
Gaveston's body was simply left behind at the site of his execution. There is now a monument to him on Blacklow Hill

1314. English forces routed during the Battle of Bannockburn by King Robert the Bruce.

1315 - 16. Heavy rain caused consecutive harvest failures and famine. Sporadic riots broke out notably in Bristol.

1321. Hugh Dispenser the Younger, Edward II new boyfriend is banished from England by the barons. Dispenser is said to have committed land theft and in exile became a pirate in the English Chanel.

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