1346
*
July 11 -
Charles IV of
Luxembourg elected emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire.
*
August 26 -
Battle of Crecy after which
Edward the Black Prince honoured the bravery of
John I, Count of Luxemburg and King of
Bohemia also known as
John the Blind who was killed in the fighting, by adopting his arms and motto "Ich Dien" or "I Serve"In addition to the victory at
Crecy, the
English armies have an
annus mirabilis, with further victories over the
French at
Caen and near
Calais, over
Scotland at the
Battle of Neville's Cross and the
Bretons at the
Battle of St Pol de Leon during the
Hundred Years' War.
*
Serbian Empire was proclaimed in
Skopje by
Dusan Silni, occupying much of the
South-Eastern Europe.
* Foundation of the
University of Valladolid.
* Foundation of
Pembroke College,
University of Cambridge.
* The
Teutonic Knights bought
Estonia from
Denmark. See
Danish Estonia.
* King
Edward III reneges on his loans, plunging many banks and the cities around them into an
economic depression(see reference).
*
Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel (died
1397)
*
Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (died
1361)
*
Eustache Deschamps, French poet (died
1405)
*
John I, Duke of Lorraine (died
1390)
*
August 26 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
**
Charles II of Alençon (b.
1297)
**
Louis I of Flanders (born
1304)
**
John I, Count of Luxemburg (born
1296)
**
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (born
1320)
*
John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray* MacKenny, Richard; The City State, 1500-1700. Humanities Press International, Inc: Atlantic Highlands, NJ.
