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unusual facts about Irish Bruce Wars 1315-1318



Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman

The ruler of Tlemcen, Ibn Tashufin (r. 1318-1337), initiated hostilities against Ifriqiya, besieged Béjaïa, and sent an army into Tunisia that defeated the Hafsid king Abu Yahya Abu Bakr II, who fled to Constantine while the Zayyanids occupied Tunis.

Anne of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria

Anna of Austria (1318–1343) was the youngest daughter of Frederick the Fair, of Austria and his wife, Isabella of Aragon.

Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere

Although very hostile to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, Bartholomew helped to make peace between the king and the earl in 1318, and was a member of the middle party which detested alike Edward's minions, like the Despensers, and his violent enemies like Lancaster.

Beatrice of Bâgé

Beatrice of Savoy, (1278–1318), better known as Béatrice de Bâgé was born at Bâgé-le-Châtel, in Provence Fance, the second daughter of Count Amadeus V of Savoy and Sybille of Bâgé, she was a member of the House of Savoy.

Beatrice of Hungary

Beatrice of Luxembourg, the queen consort of Charles I of Hungary from 1318-1319

Birger of Sweden

Birger, King of Sweden also called Birger Magnusson (c. 1280–1321), King of Sweden 1290-1318

Bunratty Castle

In that year a major battle was fought at Dysert O'Dea as part of the Irish Bruce Wars, in which both Thomas De Clare and his son Richard were killed.

Chagatai Khanate

Included among these are Kebek (1309, 1318–1326), who instituted a standardization of the coinage and selected a sedentary capital (at Qarshi), and Tarmashirin (1326–1334), who converted to Islam and raided the Sultanate of Delhi in India.

Constantine II, King of Armenia

He had married twice, firstly in Constantinople ca 1318 or 1318 to a Kantakouzene (died ca 1330), without issue, and secondly in 1330–1332, Theodora Syrgiannaina (died 1347/1349), sister of the pinkernes ("cupbearer") Syrgiannes Palaiologos Philanthropenos, with whom he fathered two children.

David Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi

The title of Baron Strabolgi was created in 1318 for the tenth Earl of Atholl.

Duke of Leinster

Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare (1318–1390), third and youngest son of the 2nd Earl

Eleanor Lancaster

Eleanor of Lancaster (1318–1372), fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth

Emperor Go-Fushimi

Fushimi acted as cloistered emperor for a period, but after a while, from 1313 to 1318, Go-Fushimi acted in that function.

Framwellgate Bridge

In 1318 Robert Neville, the "Peacock of the North", murdered his cousin, the Bishop's Steward Sir Richard Fitzmarmaduke, at Framwellgate Bridge.

Georges Poulet

In these four volumes, Poulet conducts an exhaustive examination of the work of French authors such as Molière, Proust, Flaubert, and Baudelaire to find the expression of what he calls the cogito, or consciousness, of each writer (Leitch et al. 1318).

Gilles Aycelin de Montaigu

:This article is not about Gilles I Aycelin de Montaigu (d.1318)

Henry I, Count of Montbéliard

Henry I of Montfaucon (before 1318–1367) became Count of Montbéliard and Lord of Montfaucon through his marriage to Agnes, the daughter of Reginald of Burgundy, Count of Montbéliard.

Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster

Eleanor of Lancaster, (about 1318-1371/72) married (1) John De Beaumont and (2) 5 Feb. 1344/5, Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and had descendants

Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady

The Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady (Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap) was a religious confraternity founded in 1318 in 's-Hertogenbosch to promote the veneration of the Mother of God.

Jacopo da Carrara

Jacopo I da Carrara, (died 1324), called the Great, founder Carraresi dynasty that ruled Padua from 1318 to 1405

Jacopo I da Carrara

Jacopo or Giacomo I da Carrara, called the Great (Grande), was the founder of the Carraresi dynasty that ruled Padua from 1318 to 1405.

Karl von Trier

On March 12, 1318 Karl accepted the position of Grand Master again during a general meeting in Erfurt, although he did not return to Prussia.

Karnala Fort

Its exact date of formation is not know but likely it predates 1400 CE as under the Devagiri Yadavs(1248–1318) and under the Tughlaq rulers (1318–1347), Karnala was the capital of the north Konkan districts of their respective empires.

Konrad I, Duke of Głogów

By 1271, Konrad married his second wife, Sophie (b. ca. 1259 - d. 24 August 1318), daughter of Dietrich the Wise, Margrave of Landsberg (second son of Henry III, Margrave of Meissen) and — according to some sources — widow of the last legitimate male member of the House of Hohenstaufen, Conradin, King of Sicily and Jerusalen.

Matilda of Hainaut

Matilda of Hainaut (29 November 1293 – 1331) was the Princess of Achaea from 1313 to 1318.

Nicholas I, Duke of Troppau

King Henry's successor John of Luxembourg however redeemed the pawn and in 1318 re-installed Nicholas's son Nicholas II as duke.

Nicholas II, Duke of Opava

He was a supporter of King John of Luxembourg of Bohemia, who gave him Opava as a fief in 1318 and at the same time raised it to an independent duchy.

Pratapbimba

The islands were wrested from Pratapbimba's control by Mubarak Khan, a self-proclaimed regent of the Khilji dynasty, who occupied Mahim and Salsette in 1318.

Prignani

Pope Urban VI (1318 – 1389), Bartholomew Prignani, Roman Catholic Pope

Shanti Ashram

Shanti Ashram was founded for the first time by Swami Nigamananda on Akshay Tritiya at Kumilla Durgapur in 1314 B.S. Then Shanti Ashram was shifted to Gendaria in Dhaka in 1318 B.S. Sri Gouranga Anath Niketan was founded there on 26th Agrahayana 1318 B.S. The noble purpose behind it is to serve the distressed, the grieved, the sick and the poor.

St Mary's Abbey, York

In 1318 the abbot received royal permission to raise the height of the wall and crenelate it; a stretch of this wall still runs along Bootham and Marygate to the River Ouse.

Veera Ballala III

By 1318, the Seuna kingdom had been completely destroyed and Devagiri occupied by the Delhi Sultan.

Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat

Yolande Palaiologina or Violant (Moncalvo, June 1318 – Chambery, December 24, 1342) was the daughter of Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat and Argentina Spinola, a Genoese lady, daughter of Opicino Spinola.


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