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The 1340s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1340, and ended on December 31, 1349.

Events

1340

• January 26 – King Edward III of England declares himself King of France at Ghent, Flanders.
• March 6 – Bohemian Crusade: The Church authorizes a military expedition against heretics.
• April 8 – Marinid galleys, under the command of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Azafi, rout the Castellan fleet, off the coast of Algeciras.
• April–July – Trapezuntine Civil War: An abortive uprising occurs against Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond, the first of a number of coups, revolts, and succession disputes.
• June 7 – Rotterdam is officially declared a city.
• June 24
  • Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The English fleet, under the command of Edward III of England, battles the French fleet, under that of Admiral Hugues Quiéret and treasurer Nicolas Béhuchet, assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys under Egidio Bocanegra, on the Low Countries coast. The French fleet is virtually destroyed, and both of its commanders are killed.
  • Valdemar IV of Denmark, son of deceased King Christopher II, is elected to the throne, following 8 years of interregnum.
• July 26 – Hundred Years' War – Battle of Saint-Omer: The French defeat the English.
• September 25 – Hundred Years' War: The temporary Truce of Espléchin is signed between England and France.
• October 30 – Battle of Río Salado in Spain: The kings of Castile and Portugal defeat the Nasrid ruler of Granada and his Moroccan allies.

Date unknown

• Europe has about 74 million inhabitants.
• An epidemic in northern Italy is recorded by Augustine of Trent, in his Epistola astrologica.
• The Monarchy of Japan reaches its 2,000 year anniversary (according to traditional starting dates).

1341

• January 1 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) affects Crimea (disputed event).
• January 18 – The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded.
• April 8 – Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
• September–October – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 (between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for the infant John V Palaiologos) breaks out.

Date unknown

• The Breton War of Succession begins, over the control of the Duchy of Brittany.
• Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple.
• Tbilisi becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra, after the city of Smirna. George V (the Brilliant) returns Jerusalem and the Grave of Christ from the Muslims.
• Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.
• Casimir III of Poland builds a masonry castle in Lublin, and encircles the city with defensive walls.
• The sultan of Delhi Muhammad bin Tughluq chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Yuan Dynasty China.
• A great flood in the river Periyar in modern-day southern India leads to the river changing its course, the closing of Muziris, the opening up of Cochin (Kochi) harbour, submersion of some islands, and birth of some new islands.
• Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair, about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.
• Approximate date – Magnus Erikssons landslag (the Country Law of Magnus IV of Sweden) is promulgated.
• The danish king Valdemar IV Atterdag sells southern Halland for 8000 mark to king Magnus Eriksson of Sweden in order to finance the reunification of Denmark.
• Saint Bridget of Sweden and her husband Ulf Gudmarsson went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

1342

January–December

• January 21–June 27 – An-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt, rules prior to being deposed by his half-brother As-Salih Ismail.
• May 7 – Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII, as the 198th Pope.
• July 16 – Louis I becomes king of Hungary.
• July 18 – Battle of Zava: Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeats the Sarbadars.
• July 22 – St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
• August 15 – Louis "the Child", age 4, succeeds his father, Peter II, king of Sicily and duke of Athens; he is crowned on September 15 in Palermo Cathedral.
• September 4 – John III of Trebizond (John III Comnenus) becomes emperor of Trebizond.

Date unknown

• Guy de Lusignan becomes Constantine II, King of Armenia (Gosdantin, Կոստանդին Բ).
• The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch is transferred to Damascus, under Ignatius II.
• Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol.
• Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 – The Zealots seize power in Thessalonica, expelling its aristocrats and declaring themselves in favour of the regency.

1343

January–December

• January 14 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.
• January 27 – Pope Clement VI issues his bull Unigenitus, defining the doctrine of "The Treasury of Merits" or "The Treasury of the Church" as the basis for the issuance of indulgences by the Catholic Church.
• April 23 – The St. George's Night Uprising begins in Estonia.
• May 4 – St. George's Night Uprising: The "Four Estonian kings" are murdered, at the negotiations with the Livonian Order.
• August 15 – Magnus IV of Sweden abdicates from the throne of Norway, in favor of his son Haakon VI of Norway. However, Haakon is still a minor, allowing Magnus to remain de facto ruler.
• August 31 – A naval league is formed between the Pope, the Republic of Venice, the Knights Hospitaller and the Kingdom of Cyprus, to prepare the Smyrniote Crusades.
• November 25 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake, devastates the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.

Date unknown

• Tsar Dušan conquers Albania.

1344

January–December

• March 26 – Reconquista: The Siege of Algeciras (1342–44), one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder is used, ends with the Muslim city of Algeciras surrendering and being incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.
• April 17 – Constantine II, King of Armenia, is killed in an uprising and succeeded by a distant cousin, Constantine III.
• April 23 – The St. George's Night Uprising: The Livonian Order hangs Vesse, the rebel Estonian Elder of Saaremaa Island.
• May 13 – Battle of Pallene: A Christian fleet defeats a Turkish fleet at Pallene, Chalcidice.
• October 24 – Smyrniote Crusade: A Christian fleet succeeds in taking the port city of Smyrna from the Aydinid Turks.
• December 6 – Five-year-old Erik Magnusson, the eldest son of King Magnus IV of Sweden, is appointed heir to the Swedish throne, even though Sweden is an elective monarchy at this time.

Date unknown

• King Edward III of England introduces three new gold coins, the florin, leopard, and helm. Unfortunately, the amount of gold in the coins does not match their value of 6 shillings, 3 shillings, and 1 shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down, by August of this year.
• Bablake School is founded in Coventry, England by the dowager Queen Isabella.
• The Compagnia dei Bardi in Florence goes bankrupt, along with the Peruzzi Bank and the Acciaiuoli Bank.
• A large public dial clock is installed in the tower of the Palazzo Capitaniato, Padua, commissioned by Prince Ubertino I da Carrara and supervised by Jacopo Dondi dell'Orologio.
• A famine occurs in China.
• King Peter IV of Aragon defeats and deposes his cousin, James III of Majorca, thereby absorbing the Balearic Kingdom of Majorca into the Crown of Aragon.

1345

• January 17 – The Turks attack Smyrna.
• March 15 – The Miracle of the Host occurs (as commemorated in Amsterdam).
• March 24 – Guy de Chauliac observes the planets Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars conjoined in the sky, under the sign of Aquarius, and a solar eclipse on the same day. This sign is interpreted as foreboding by many, and Chauliac will later blame it for the Black Plague.
• April – Edward III of England offers "defiance" of Philip VI of France.
• April 22 – Battle of Gamenario: The Lombards defeat the Angevins in the northwest region of present-day Italy, just southeast of Turin.
• May – The Turks, led by Umur Beg, sail from Asia Minor to the Balkan Peninsula, and raid Bulgarian territory.
• "Summer" (undated) – Louis IV's son, Louis VI the Roman, marries Cunigunde, a Lithuanian princess.
• July 7 – Battle of Peritheorion: the forces of Momchil, autonomous ruler of the Rhodope, are defeated by the Turkish allies of John VI Kantakouzenos.
• August – Gascon campaign of 1345 - Battle of Bergerac, Gascony: English troops are victorious over the French.
• September – Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland are inherited by Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and remain part of the imperial crown domain until 1347.
• September 18 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria, is assassinated in Naples (d. in Aversa).
• September 26 – Battle of Warns: The Frisians defeat the forces of Holland under William II, Count of Hainaut, in the midst of the Friso-Hollandic Wars.
• October 21 – Battle of Auberoche in Gascony: The English defeat the French.
• November 8 – The English take La Réole in Gascony.
• December – The English take Aiguillon in Gascony.

1346

• Spring – A severe Bubonic Plague epidemic begins in the Crimea, marking the first major epidemic of the Black Death.
• March 18 – The French prepare to defend the channel coasts.
• April 1–August 20 – Siege of Aiguillon: The French fail to take Aiguillon from its English defenders.
• April 16 – The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of Southeast Europe.
• May–June – An English invasion fleet assembles at Portsmouth.
• June 9 – Battle of St Pol de Léon: The English army defeats Charles of Blois in Brittany.
• June 15 – Genoese forces led by Simone Vignoso land on the Mediterranean island of Chios and capture it from local Greek control within a week, apart from the Castle of Chios, which resists until 12 September.
• June 20 – The English win a small victory at La Roche-Derrien in Brittany.
• June 24 – The leaders of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres agree to support Edward III.
• July – Edward III orders the closing of English ports to stop information from reaching France.
• July 3 – The English fleet attempts to sail from Portsmouth to Normandy, but is forced back by contrary winds.
• July 11 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.
• July 11–12 – Edward III and the English army cross the English Channel and begin an invasion of France.
• July 12–18 – The English raid and burn neighbouring towns and villages in the Cotentin Peninsula.
• July 26 – Battle of Caen (1346): An English army captures and sacks the French city of Caen.
• August 10 – Jaume Ferrer sets out from Majorca for the "River of Gold", the Senegal River.
• August 24 – Battle of Blanchetaque: The English defeat the French.
• August 26 – Battle of Crécy: The English defeat the French, in the first European battle where gunpowder is used.
• September 4 – The English begin the siege of Calais.
• September–October – Anglo-Gascon offensives overrun large parts of southwest France.
• October 4 – The English capture and sack the French city of Poitiers.
• October 17 – Battle of Neville's Cross: The English army defeats the Scots.
• October–November – Several Mongol towns in the Crimea are cleared of inhabitants by the Black Death.
• Repairs are made in the Hagia Sophia.

1347

January–December

• January 26 – Charles University in Prague is founded by a bull issued by Pope Clement VI, at the request of Charles I, King of Bohemia.
• February 2 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for John V Palaiologos ends with Kantakouzenos entering Constantinople.
• February 26 – The Maona of Chios and Phocaea is formed to manage the overseas possessions of the Republic of Genoa.
• April – The Knights Hospitaller defeat a Turkish fleet, and sink 100 ships off Imbros.
• May
  • The agreement reorganizing the Byzantine Empire's affairs is finalized, as Anna of Savoy's son John V Palaiologos marries Kantakouzenos' 15-year-old daughter Helena.
  • Genoese ships fleeing the 1331 Black Death plague in Theodosia stop in Constantinople, contaminating the city.
• May 20 – Cola di Rienzo, a Roman commoner, declares himself Emperor of Rome, in response to years of baronial power struggles.
• August 2 – The Islamic Bahmani Kingdom is established on the Indian subcontinent.
• September – Hundred Years' War: The English win the city of Calais.
• September 1 – The Black Death reaches the French port city of Marseille.
• October – Ships arrive in the Sicilian city of Messina, carrying people afflicted by the Black Death onboard.
• November
  • Pope Clement VI unites several of Rome's upper-class nobility, who drive Cola di Rienzo out of the city.
  • King Phillip of France meets with the Estates General to ask for funds to further the war effort against the English.
• November 1 – The Black Death spreads to Aix-en-Provence in France.
• December – Plague hits the island of Mallorca.
• December 24 – Pembroke College in the University of Cambridge, England, is founded by Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, as the Hall of Valence Marie.
• December 25 – The first cases of the plague are recorded in the city of Split, in Croatia.
• December 27 – To fund military operations in Corsica, the Republic of Genoa has to borrow at 20%, from an association of creditors known as the Compera nuova acquisitionis Corsicæ.

1348

January–December

• January – Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England, is founded.
• January 25 – The 6.9-magnitude 1348 Friuli earthquake centered in Northern Italy is felt across Europe. Contemporary minds link the quake with the Black Death, fueling fears that the Biblical Apocalypse has arrived.
• February 2 – Battle of Strėva: the Teutonic Order secure a victory over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Sources tell of a blow to Lithuanian leadership, one that the Teutonic Order could not fully make use of due to the Black Death.
• April 7 – Charles University in Prague, founded the previous year by papal bull, is granted privileges by Charles I, King of Bohemia, in a golden bull.
• April 23 – Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
• By June 24 – The Black Death pandemic reaches England, having probably been brought across the English Channel by fleas on rats aboard a ship from Gascony to the south coast port of Melcombe (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset); by November it will have reached London and by 1350 will have killed one third to a half of its population.
• July 6 – A papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death pandemic.
• November 1 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
• November 18 – Emperor Kōmyō of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his son Emperor Sukō, making them the second and third of the Northern Court (Ashikaga Pretenders).

Date unknown

• The Black Death pandemic spreads to central and western Europe and to Cairo.
• Stefan the Mighty, Emperor of Serbia, conquers Thessaly and Epirus.
• The Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo.
• Hundred Years' War (1337–1360): The effects of the Black Death cause a de facto truce to be observed between England and France until 1355.
• Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt.

1349

January–December

• January 22 – An earthquake affects L'Aquila in southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing severe damage, and leaving 2,000 dead.
• February 14 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Strasbourg massacre – Because they are believed by the residents to be the cause of the Black Death, roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death.
• February 19 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: The entire Jewish community in the remote German village of Saulgau is wiped out.
• March 21 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Erfurt massacre – The Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered and expelled in a pogrom.
• March 27 – An earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey.
• May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland.
• May 28 – In Breslau, Silesia, 60 Jews are murdered following a disastrous fire which destroys part of the city.
• August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).
• September 9 – 1349 Apennine earthquakes. An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.
• October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.
• November 8 – Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez, Morocco.
• November 17 – Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
• December 22 – The rise of Alexios III of Trebizond to the throne ends the Trapezuntine Civil Wars.

Ongoing

• The Black Death in England spreads to the north and a ship from England carries it to Askøy and Bjørgvin (modern-day Bergen) in Norway. The disease also breaks out in Mecca and is prevalent in the Île-de-France and the Kingdom of Navarre.

Significant people

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Births

1340

• March 5 – Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375)
• March 6 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
• August – Haakon VI, king of Norway 1355–1380 and of Sweden 1362–1364 (d. 1380)
• October – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (d. 1384)
• November 30 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
• date unknown
  • Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (d. 1397)
  • John of Nepomuk, saint of Bohemia (d. 1393)
  • Narayana Pandit, Indian mathematician (d. 1400)
• probable
  • Margaret Drummond, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1375)
  • Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (d. 1382)

1341

• June 5 – Edmund of Langley, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)
• September 1 – Frederick III the Simple, King of Sicily (d. 1377)
• November 10 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
• date unknown
  • Bonne of Bourbon, Countess regent of Savoy (d. 1402)
  • Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1413)
  • Louis, Duke of Durazzo (d. 1376)
  • Qu You, Chinese novelist (d. 1427)

1342

• January 17 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
• April 6 – Infanta Maria, Marchioness of Tortosa (d. after 1363)
• November 8 – Julian of Norwich, English mystic (approximate date; d. 1413)
• date unknown
  • Levon V Lusignan of Armenia (d. 1393)
  • Avignon Pope Clement VII (d. 1394)
  • Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (d. 1373)
  • John Trevisa, English translator (d. 1402)

1343

• December 19 – William I, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1407)
• date unknown
  • Emperor Chōkei of Japan (d. 1394)
  • Constance of Aragon, queen consort of Sicily (d. 1363)
  • Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (d. 1403)
  • Nang Keo Phimpha, queen of Lan Xang (d. 1438)
  • Tommaso Mocenigo, doge of Venice (d. 1423)
  • Paolo Alboino della Scala, lord of Verona (d. 1375)
  • Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, Scottish ruler (d. 1405)
• probable
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (approximate date) (d. 1400)

1344

• February 9 – Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol (d. 1363)
• September 18 – Marie Valois, French princess, daughter of King John II of France (d. 1404)
• October 10 – Mary Plantagenet, duchess consort of Brittany, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1362)
• date unknown
  • Beatrix of Bavaria, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1359)
  • Azzo X d'Este, Italian condottiero (d. 1415)
  • John I, Count of La Marche (d. 1393)
  • Parameswara, Malay Srivijayan prince (d. 1424)

1345

• January 8 – Kadi Burhan al-Din, poet, kadi, and ruler of Sivas (d. 1398)
• March 25 or 1347 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1369)
• October 31 – King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
• December 7 – Thado Minbya, founder of the Ava kingdom (d. 1367)
• date unknown
  • King Charles III of Naples, reign 1381–1386 (d. 1386)
  • Eleanor Maltravers, English noblewoman (d. 1405)
  • John Wolflin (d. 1393)
  • Queen Helen of Bosnia (d. 1399)

1346

• July 20 – Margaret, Countess of Pembroke, English princess, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1361)
• date unknown – Eustache Deschamps, French poet (d. 1406)

1347

• February 6 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess and visionary (d. 1394)
• February 27 – Alberto d'Este, Lord of Ferrara and Modena (d. 1393)
• March 25 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
• March 31 – Frederick III, Duke of Austria, second son of Duke Albert II of Austria (d. 1362)
• July 28 – Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (d. 1412)
• August 29 – John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (d. 1375)
• date unknown
  • Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (d. 1404)
  • Elizabeth of Pomerania, fourth and final wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1393)
  • Emperor Go-Kameyama, 99th Emperor of Japan (d. 1424)
  • Richardis of Schwerin, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1377)

1348

• April 11 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1385)
• date unknown
  • John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (d. 1379)
  • Alice Perrers, politically active English royal mistress and courtier (d. 1400)

1349

• September 9 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
• date unknown
  • Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)
  • Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)

Deaths

1340

• March 31 – Ivan I of Moscow (b. 1288)
• April 5 – William Melton, English archbishop
• April 6 – Emperor Basil Megas Komnenos of Trebizond
• April 7 – Bolesław Jerzy II of Mazovia (b. 1308)
• December 2 – Geoffrey le Scrope, Chief Justice of King Edward III of England
• December 4 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
• December 20 – John I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1329)
• date unknown – Simonida, queen consort of Serbia (b. 1294)

1341

• January 22 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
• March 2 or October 3 – Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1277)
• April 30 – John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1286)
• June – Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1295)
• June 19 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (b. 1270)
• June 15 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
• August 9 – Eleanor of Anjou, queen consort of Sicily (b. 1289)
• August 28 – King Levon IV of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309)
• December – Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
• December 4 – Janisław, Archbishop of Gniezno
• date unknown
  • Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
  • Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (b. 1282)
  • Nicholas I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago
  • Bartholomew II Ghisi, Lord of Tenos and Mykonos, Triarch of Negroponte
• probable – Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson (resisting arrest)

1342

• March 31 – Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Italian Augustinian friar
• April 25 – Pope Benedict XII
• July 16 – King Charles I of Hungary
• September 4 – Anna Anachoutlou, Empress of Trebizond
• November 29 – Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
• date unknown
  • Al-Jaldaki, Persian physician and alchemist
  • Peter Paludanus, French bishop and theologian (b. c. 1275)
  • William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
• probable – Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (b. 1270)

1343

• January 20 – Robert of Naples (b. 1276)
• May 29 – Francesco I Manfredi, lord of Faenza
• June 22 – Aimone, Count of Savoy (b. 1291)
• June 23 – Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi, Italian cardinal (b. c. 1270)
• September 16 – Philip III of Navarre (b. 1306)
• December 15 – Hasan Kucek, Chobanid prince (b. c. 1319)
• date unknown
  • Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman
  • Anne of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria (b. 1318)
  • Veera Ballala III, ruler of the Hoysala Empire (b. 1291)

1344

• January 4 – Robert de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle, English peer (b. 1288)
• January 11 – Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford, Lord High Treasurer of England, Lord Privy Seal, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• January 30 – William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (b. 1301)
• April 17 – Constantine II, King of Armenia (Gosdantin, Կոստանդին Բ)
• June 29 – Joan of Savoy, duchess consort of Brittany, throne claimant of Savoy (b. 1310)
• July 11 – Ulrich III, Count of Württemberg (b. c. 1286)
• July 16 – An-Nasir Ahmad, deposed Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1316)
• date unknown
  • Gersonides, French rabbi and mathematician (b. 1288)
  • Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu
  • Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Wajih ad-Din Mas'ud, leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
  • Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shōgun (b. 1326, d. either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory).
• probable – Simone Martini, Sienese painter (b. 1284)

1345

• January 17
  • Martino Zaccaria, former Genoese Lord of Chios (killed by Turks at Smyrna)
  • Henry of Asti, titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (killed by Turks at Smyrna)
• September 18 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria (b. 1327)
• September 22 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
• April 14 – Richard Aungerville (also known as Richard De Bury), English writer and bishop (b. 1287)
• June 11 – Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire (lynched by political prisoners)
• July 7 – Momchil, semi-independent brigand ruler in the Rhodope Mountains (killed in battle)
• July 24 – Jacob van Artevelde, Flemish statesman (b. 1290) (killed by mob)
• July 28 – Sancia of Majorca, queen regent of Naples (b. c. 1285)
• September 26 – William II, Count of Hainaut (killed in the Battle of Warns)
• November 13 – Constance of Peñafiel, queen of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)
• date unknown
  • Aedh mac Tairdelbach Ó Conchobair, King of Connacht
  • John Vatatzes, Byzantine general (murdered)
  • John Apokaukos, governor of Thessalonica (executed)

1346

• February 10 – Blessed Clare of Rimini (b. 1282)
• March 28 – Venturino of Bergamo, Dominican preacher (b. 1304)
• August – Muhammad Aytimur, leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar (alternative date is September)
• August 26 (killed in the Battle of Crécy):
  • Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)
  • Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304)
  • Louis II, Count of Blois
  • John of Bohemia (b. 1296)
  • Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
• October – Raghnall Mac Ruaidhrí, Scottish magnate
• October 17 (killed in the Battle of Neville's Cross):
  • John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
  • Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
• November 14 – Ostasio I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna (assassinated)
• November 27 – Saint Gregory of Sinai (b. c. 1260)
• date unknown
  • Eustace Folville, English outlaw
  • Hélion de Villeneuve, Grand Master of the Knights of St John

1347

• February 2 – Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln (b. 1282)
• April 9 – William of Ockham, English philosopher and Franciscan monk (b. c. 1285)
• May 30 – John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, English peer (b. 1290)
• June – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English nobleman (b. 1286)
• June 11 – Bartholomew of San Concordio, Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters (b. 1260)
• October 11 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
• November – Richard de Pilmuir, bishop of Dunkeld
• November 12 – John of Viktring, Austrian chronicler and political advisor in Carinthia (b. 1270–1280)
• November 15 – James I of Urgell, Prince of Aragon (b. 1321)
• date unknown
  • Shah Jalal, Sufi saint of Bengal (b. 1271)
  • Blanca de La Cerda y Lara, Spanish noblewoman (b. 1317)
  • John de Egglescliffe, English bishop
  • Adam Murimuth, English ecclesiastic and chronicler (b. 1274)
  • Peter III of Arborea, Judge of Arborea
  • Lamberto II and Pandolfo da Polenta, brothers and lords of Ravenna and Cervia
  • Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated Chinese poet (b. 1278)
  • Sang Nila Utama, Founder and First King of Singapura

1348

• February 2 – Narimantas, Christian Lithuanian prince of Pinsk (Battle of Strėva)
• June 9 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (Black Death) (b. 1290)
• June 13 – Don Juan Manuel, prince of Villena, Spanish writer (b. 1282)
• July 1 – Joan of England, princess (Black Death) (b. 1333/34)
• August 20 – Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke, English noble (b. 1319)
• August 23 – John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c.1275)
• October 2 – Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln, English noblewoman (b. 1281)

• date unknown
  • Laura de Noves, French countess, presumed beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310)
  • Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (Black Death) (b. 1280)
  • Umur of Aydın, Emir (killed in action) (b. c.1309)
  • Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence (Black Death) (b. c. 1276)

1349

• February 26 – Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (b. c.1260)
• April 3 – Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
• May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
• June – John Clyn, Irish Franciscan friar and chronicler
• June 14 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)
• August 26 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
• September 11 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)
• September 30 – Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. c.1300)
• October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)
• October 25 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315)
• November 18 – Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1310)
• date unknown – Hamdallah Mustawfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)
• probable – William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)

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