1329

Year 1329 (MCCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February 1 – King John of Bohemia (of the Teutonic Order) captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders.
• February 18 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia, begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces (possibly in 1332).
• March 27 – Pope John XXII issues a bull condemning some teachings of Meister Eckhart (who died last year) as heretical.
• April – Antipope Nicholas V is excommunicated by Pope John XXII.
• June 6 – Edward III of England pays homage to Philip VI of France for Aquitaine.
• June 7 – David II becomes King of Scots at age 5; he will rule Scotland for nearly 42 years.
• June 10 – Braganstown massacre, County Louth, Ireland: Over 160 are killed.
• June 11 – Battle of Maltepe (Pelekanon): Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire.
• August 4 – Wittelsbach possessions are divided by the Treaty of Pavia into those of the Bavarian line and those of Palatinate line. Both lines will be reunited in 1777.

Date unknown

• Aimone of Savoy becomes Count of Savoy.
• Construction begins on the Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Andrew in Frombork, Poland.
• Michael of Cesena is deposed as General of the Franciscans.
• Stefan UroÅ¡ IV DuÅ¡an of Serbia defeats Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia.
• Wiesbaden is granted the right of coinage by Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

Births

• September 26 – Anne of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1353)
• November 22 – Elisabeth of Meissen, Burgravine consort of Nuremberg (d. 1375)
• November 29 – John I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1340)
• date unknown
• Fairuzabadi, Persian Arab lexicographer (d. 1414)
• Prince Lazar of Serbia (d. 1389)
• Philip II, Prince of Taranto (d. 1374)
• Hosokawa Yoriyuki, Japanese samurai (d. 1392)

Deaths

• January 17 – Saint Roseline, Carthusian nun (b. 1263)
• April 21 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
• May 9 – John Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells
• May 31 – Albertino Mussato, Italian statesman and writer (b. 1261)
• June 7 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
• August 30 – Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan dynasty and the Mongol Empire (b. 1300)
• October 27 – Mahaut, Countess of Artois (b. 1268)
• date unknown
• Walter Herok, Bishop of Aberdeen
• Michael of Imereti
• Oshin of Korikos, regent of Armenia (assassinated)
• Edward, Count of Savoy (b. 1284)
• Maol Íosa IV, Earl of Strathearn
• random serf in the montenegren province of austria

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