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That last Scottish one is a little sad for goodlooking blokes with a ecret lover actually! :lol:
I mean, imagine, there you are, goodlooking and your parents want that you marry another than the girl next door. And then that ugly fattie from over the road comes to ask you (sees visions of Blackadder's Infanta) :lol: ouch 'Will have to convince parents before next time, will have to convince parents before next year... Or otherwise run off to Gretna Green...'
So, 1278 - August 26 – Battle of Marchfield: Kings Rudolph I of Germany and Ladislaus IV of Hungary defeat King Otakar II of Bohemia in a match of over 80,000 men and the largest battle of knights in the Middle Ages. The battle ends a power struggle between Rudolph and Otakar over the fate of central Europe, and Rudolph's Habsburg family will continue to rule Austria and other captured territories until the end of World War I in 1918.
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1277m and the irony of life. Mameluk leader of Egypt Zahir Baybars, otherwise known as Baybars-al-Bunduqdari, in trying to poison a rival, Malik Kaher, was the subject of a swap of drinking vessels, wshich was awkward because Baybars finished up killing himself. Oddly, he was reputed to have blue eyes, odd for an Egyptian (well one blue and the other with a cataract). Maybe that's why he didn't notice which Koumiss was his!
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1276
January 21 – Pope Innocent V succeeds Pope Gregory X as the 185 th pope .
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1275 - The first of the Statutes of Westminster are passed by the English Parliament, establishing equal treatment of rich and poor, free and fair elections, and definition of bailable and non-bailable offences.
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1274
The Second Council of Lyons, held by the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church convenes to consider the liberation of the Holy Land via Crusades and address the East-West Schism with the Byzantine church. The Council eventually approves a tithe to support efforts to liberate the Holy Land from Muslims, and reaches apparent resolution of the schism which ultimately proves unsuccessful.
In Asia, Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty attempts its first invasion of Japan. The Mongols capture outlying islands, but are then repulsed on the main island at the Battle of Bun'ei by amassed Japanese warriors and a strong storm which batters their forces and fleet. Credit for the storm — called a kamikaze, or divine wind — is given by the Japanese to the god Raiden.
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1273 – Rudolph I of Germany is elected King of Germany over rival candidate King Otakar II of Bohemia
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1272 - King Henry III died on 16 November 1272 at Westminster in London. He was buried in Westminster Abbey
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1271 - 1st September: Pope Gregory X succeeds Clement IX as a compromise candidate between French and Italian cardinals. His election was the result of a three year conclave, the longest to date.
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1270 - The siege of Tunis and the Eighth Crusade end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (Louis IX's brother) and the sultan of Tunis.
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1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
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1268 - February 18 – Battle of Rakvere: The Livonian Order is defeated by Dovmont of Pskov.
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1267
Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps, and Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb. Sinister when compared to some more recent events...
Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV. Also rather sinister, knowing what it led to...
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1266 - February 26 – Battle of Benevento: The army of Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
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1265: Mongol armies raided Thrace! That bloody Nogai Khan up to his old tricks.
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1264 - The Second Barons' War, a civil war in England, begins.
