Life In Good Measure

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Data for 1319

In the year 1319, three-year-old Magnus Eriksson becomes King of Norway (May 8) and is then elected King of Sweden (the second longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history), thus establishing a union with Norway (Jul 8), Scottish troops defeat an English army in the Battle of Myton in Yorkshire, the first major engagement in the First Scottish War of Independence (Sep 20), James of Aragon renounces his right to inherit the Crown of Aragon and his marriage to Eleanor of Castile, in order to become a monk (Dec 22) - and all these fine people were born:

1319-xxxx Kikuchi Takemitsu* 菊池武光 general - Japan (1373/c.54)
1319-xxxx Märta Ulfsdotter* noblewoman/lady in waiting/daughter of Bridget of Sweden - Sweden (1371/c.52)

1319-0320 Laurence Hastings* nobleman/1st Earl of Pembroke - Allesley, Warwickshire, England (1348/29)

1319-0426 King John II of France* Jean le Bon - Le Mans, France (1364/44)

1319-0905 Peter IV of Aragon* King of Aragon, and of Sardinia and Corsica  - Balaguer, Spain (1387/67)

Updated 9.3.2021
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