1330s

The 1330s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1330, and ended on December 31, 1339.

1330

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January–December

• July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is mortally wounded) are beaten by the Serbs. Bulgaria does not lose any territory to Serbia, but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominantly Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.
• October 19 – King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer, and having him executed.
• November 9–12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered, thus making a firm statement towards the independence of Wallachia.^[1]
• December 6 – The British Isles are hit by a great storm, creating large areas of sand dunes on Anglesey.
• Undated – Vilnius, Lithuania receives its coat-of-arms, granted to the city in the seventh year of its existence.^[2]
• Undated – Ivan Alexander becomes the despot of Lovech.

Significant people

Births

Transcluding articles: 1330, 1331, 1332, 1333, 1334, 1335, 1336, 1337, 1338, and 1339

1330

• June 15 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (d. 1376)^[18]
• July 4 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (d. 1367)
• October 25 – Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
• date unknown
  • Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (d. 1387)
  • Euphemia of Sicily, princess regent of Sicily (d. 1359)
  • Altichiero, Italian painter (d. 1390)
  • Nicolas Flamel, French scribe and manuscript-seller, reputed alchemist (d. 1417)
  • John Gower, English poet (d. 1410)

1331

• February 16 – Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader (d. 1406)
• April 14 – Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1414)
• April 30 – Gaston III, Count of Foix (d. 1391)
• October 4 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)
• date unknown
  • Hamidüddin Aksarayî, Ottoman teacher of Islam (d. 1412)
  • Blanche d'Évreux, queen consort of France (d. 1398)
  • Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince
• probable – Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d. 1388)

1332

• May 27 – Ibn Khaldun, North African Arab historian (d. 1406)
• June 8 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1359)
• June 16 – Isabella de Coucy, English princess, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1379 or 1382)
• June 18 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1391)
• October 10 – King Charles II of Navarre (d. 1387)
• date unknown
  • Pero López de Ayala, Spanish soldier (d. 1407)
  • Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster (d. 1363)
  • Andrea Vanni, Italian painter (d. c. 1414)
  • Hanna van Recklinghausen, Dutch banker
  • Xu Da, Chinese military leader (d. 1385)
• Approximate
  • William Langland, English poet (d. c.1400)^[19]
  • Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (d. 1381)^[20]

1333

• date unknown
  • Kan'ami, Japanese Noh actor and writer (d. 1384)
  • Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1396)
  • Mikhail II of Tver (d. 1399)
  • Peter Parler, German architect (d. 1399)
  • Carlo Zeno, Venetian admiral (d. 1418)

1334

• January 4 – Amadeus VI of Savoy (d. 1383)
• January 13 – King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
• May 25 – Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)
• August 30 – King Pedro of Castile (d. 1369)
• date unknown
  • King James I of Cyprus (d. 1398)
  • Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith, Scottish noble (d. c. 1380)
  • Hayam Wuruk, Javanese ruler (d. 1389)

1335

• May 24 – Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (d. 1349)
• October 27 – Yi Seong-gye, Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty
• Gülçiçek Hatun, first wife of Ottoman Sultan Murad I
• Marko Mrnjavčević, de jure Serbian king
• Milica, wife of Prince Lazar of Serbia (d. 1405)
• Tiphaine Raguenel, Breton astrologer (d. 1373)

1336

• April 9 – Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
• July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
• date unknown
  • Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)
  • Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1406)
• probable
  • Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1371)

1337

• February 25 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg, Czech Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383)
• date unknown
  • Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1410)
  • Jean Froissart, historian and courtier from Hainaut (d. 1405)
  • Bianca of Savoy, lady consort of Milan (d. 1387)
  • Chŏng Mong-ju, Goryeo diplomat and poet (d. 1392)
  • Robert III of Scotland, second monarch from the House of Stewart to rule Scotland (d. 1406)

1338

• January 13 – Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
• January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)^[21]
• February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of France (d. 1378)
• March 23 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, Northern Court emperor during a conflict between two imperial lines (d. 1374)
• October 5 – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)
• November 29 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1368)
• date unknown
  • George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (d. 1420)
  • Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada (d. 1391)
  • Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1388)
  • Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (d. 1383)
  • Margaret de Stafford (d. 1396)
  • Tvrtko I of Bosnia (d. 1391)

1339

• July 23 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (d. 1384)
• November 1 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1365)
• date unknown:
  • Pope Alexander V, Antipope (d. 1410)^[22]
  • Erik Magnusson, king of parts of Sweden 1356–1359 (d. 1359)^[23]
  • Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (d. 1393)
  • Pope Innocent VII (d. 1406)
  • John IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1399)^[24]
  • Juana Manuel of Castile, queen consort of Castile (d. 1381)
  • Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Persian Arab encyclopaedist (d. 1414)

Deaths

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1330

• January 13 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
• January 21 – Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, queen dowager of France (b. 1291)
• March 19 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (b. 1301)
• May 3 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)
• c. July 31 – Tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1280s?)
• August 25 – On or about this date, Sir James Douglas, Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. circa 1286)
• September 28 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292)
• November 29 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Cavallini, Italian artist (b. 1259)
  • Guillaume Durand, French clergyman
  • Immanuel the Roman, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1270)
  • Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian
  • Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, Marinid prince and shaykh al-ghuzat of the Emirate of Granada^[25]

The Battle of Posada (November 9–12, 1330) in Chronicon Pictum. The Basarab I of Wallachia's army ambushes Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30,000-strong invading army. The Vlach (Romanian) warriors roll down rocks over the cliff edges in a place where the Hungarian mounted knights cannot escape from them nor climb the heights to dislodge the attackers.

1331

• January 14 – Odoric of Pordenone, Italian explorer
• April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (b. c. 1257)
• May 12 – Engelbert of Admont, abbot of Admont in Styria
• October 27 – Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273)
• November 11 – Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (b. c. 1285)
• December 26 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)
• December 30 – Bernard Gui, French inquisitor (b. 1261 or 1262)
• date unknown – Matilda of Hainaut, Princess of Achaea (b. 1293)

1332

• January 8 – Andronikos III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond
• February – Henry Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey (b. c. 1265)
• February 13 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)
• March 13 – Theodore Metochites, Byzantine Empire statesman, author, man of learning, and patron of the arts (b. 1270)
• June 16 – Adam de Brome, founder of Oriel College, Oxford
• July 20 – Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland
• August 2 – King Christopher II of Denmark (b. 1276)
• August 11 – at the Battle of Dupplin Moor^[4]
  • Domhnall II, Earl of Mar
  • Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland
  • Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray
  • Muireadhach III, Earl of Menteith
  • Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale
• September 4 – García de Ayerbe, Spanish bishop and crusade theorist^[26]
• date unknown
  • Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, Emperor Wenzong of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1304)
  • Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1326)
• approximate date – Mary of Woodstock, English princess (b. 1279)

1333

• February 7 – Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (b. 1246)
• March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian
• March 2 – King Wladyslaw I of Poland (b. 1261)
• June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (b. 1312)
• June 18 – Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1312)
• July 19 (at the Battle of Halidon Hill):
  • John Campbell, Earl of Atholl
  • Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick
  • Sir Archibald Douglas
  • Maol Choluim II, Earl of Lennox
  • Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland
• July 28 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309)
• November 9 – Empress Saionji Kishi of Japan (b. c.1303)
• October 16 – Antipope Nicholas V
• date unknown
  • Prince Morikuni, 9th and last shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. (b. 1301)
  • Nichimoku, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu (b. 1260)

1334

• January 17 – John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (b. c. 1266)
• December 4 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)^[27]
• date unknown – Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili of Persia (b. 1251)
• Isabella de Vesci, politically active French noblewoman (b. 1260s)

1335

• April 2 – Duke Henry of Carinthia
• August 12 – Prince Moriyoshi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1308)
• August 23 – Heilwige Bloemardinne, Dutch Christian mystic (b. c. 1265)
• October 31 – Marie of Évreux, French noblewoman (b. 1303)
• December 1 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (b. 1305)

1336

Emperor Go-Fushimi

• January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)
• February 25 – Margiris, Duke of Samogitia
• March 20 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. c. 1270)^[28]
• May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
• July 4 – Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271)
• September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)
• date unknown
  • Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)
  • Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid ruler
  • Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher (b. c. 1260)
  • Hugh II of Arborea
  • Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)
  • Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)
  • Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician (b. 1292)
  • Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician
  • Turgut Alp, Kayı and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.

1337

• January 8 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter (b. 1267)
• June 7 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
• June 15 – Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan and leader of a group of Fraticelli (b. 1247)
• June 25 – Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)
• June 30 – Eleanor de Clare, politically active English noble (b. 1290)
• date unknown
  • Changshi, khan of the Chagatai Khanate
  • William Frangipani, Latin Archbishop of Patras
  • Musa I of Mali, ruler of the Malian Empire (b. c.1280)
  • Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shōgun (b. 1326, d. either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory)

1338

• April 8 – Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London
• April 24 – Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. c. 1270)
• May – John Wishart, Scottish bishop
• May 5 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)
• May 23 – Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (b. 1287)
• June 10 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318; d. in battle)
• July – Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch
• August 4 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300)
• August 17 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301; d. in battle)
• August 22 – William II, Duke of Athens (b. 1312)
• December 21 – Thomas Hemenhale, Bishop of Worcester
• date unknown
  • Alfonso Fadrique, Sicilian noble
  • Awhadi Maraghai, Persian poet
  • Marino Sanuto the Elder, Venetian statesman and geographer (b. c. 1260)
  • Nitta Yoshiaki, Japanese samurai
• probable – Prince Narinaga, Japanese shōgun (b. 1325)

1339

Emperor Go-Daigo

• February 17 – Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)^[29]
• May 26 – Aldona Ona, Queen of Poland (b. c. 1309)
• August 16 – Azzone Visconti, founder of the state of Milan (b. 1302)^[30]
• August 25 – Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (b. 1260)
• September 1 – Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1305)
• September 19 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)^[31]
• October 29 – Grand Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (b. 1301)