1309

Year 1309 (MCCCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

1309
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Year 1309: Key Historical Events

Year 1309 (MCCCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January – March

  • January 6: The coronation of Henry of Luxembourg as “King of the Romans” takes place at Aachen, Germany. He will become the Emperor in 1312.
  • February 2: At Avignon, Pope Clement V begins the investigation and posthumous trial of the late Pope Boniface VIII, accused of heresy and sodomy.
  • February 15: King Denis of Portugal grants the Magna Charta Privilegioum, the charter for Portugal’s first university, now known as the University of Coimbra.
  • February 24: King Ferdinand IV of Castile agrees to assist the Kingdom of Aragon in a war against the Islamic Emirate of Granada.
  • March 9: Pope Clement V officially transfers the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Pontiff from Rome to Avignon, marking the start of the Avignon Papacy.
  • March 14: Sultan Muhammad III is deposed after a palace coup in the Emirate of Granada.

April – June

  • April 24: Spanish kings James II of Aragon and Ferdinand IV of Castile persuade Pope Clement V to grant a papal bull for a crusade against Islamic forces in the Iberian peninsula.
  • April 29: Pope Clement V issues a papal bull granting King Ferdinand IV part of clergy taxes to finance the war against Granada.
  • May 5: Robert the Wise becomes the new King of Naples.
  • June 15: The second coronation of Charles I as King of Hungary takes place.

July – September

  • July 3: Portugal joins forces with the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon in their attack on Gibraltar.
  • September 12: Castilian forces besiege and conquer the fortress at Gibraltar, held by Muslim forces for nearly 600 years.

October – December

  • October 18: Pope Clement V signs a mandate allowing trials against the memory of Boniface VIII.
  • October 22: The trial of the Knights Templar arrested in England begins.
  • November 4: Pope Clement V declares the Knights Hospitaller will remain in the Mediterranean region.
  • December 18: Fernando Ponce de León is made the new ruler of several regions in Spain.

Births

  • March 25: Robert de Ferrers, English nobleman and knight (d. 1350)
  • June 9: Rupert I, German nobleman (d. 1390)
  • December 6: Humphrey de Bohun, English nobleman (d. 1361)

Deaths

  • January 4: Angela of Foligno, Italian nun, mystic and writer (b. 1248)
  • May 5: King Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)
  • September 19: Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, Spanish nobleman (b. 1256)