1397

---

title: "1397" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1397"] topic_path: "general/1397" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1397" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::callout[type=note] 1397 ::

Year 1397 (MCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

• January – Mircea I takes back the throne of Wallachia.
• February 10 – John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset in England.
• March 18 – The Duchy of Milan, led by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, declares war against the Republic of Florence, led by Chancellor Coluccio Salutati, on the Italian peninsula.

April–June

• April 20 – At Kalaburagi in the Bahmani Kingdom (now in India's state of Karnataka) Ghiyath-ad-din Shah becomes the new Shah upon the death of his father, Mohammed Shah II.
• May 17 – Callistus II Xanthopoulos becomes the new Patriarch to lead the Eastern Orthodox Church after the death of the previous Patriarch Antony IV.
• June 14 – Shams-ud-Din Shah becomes the new Shah of the the Bahmani Kingdom (now in India's state of Karnataka) upon the death of his brother, Ghiyath-ad-din Shah.
• June 17 – Eric of Pomerania is crowned in Kalmar (Sweden) as ruler of the Kalmar Union, a personal union of the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney) and Sweden (including Finland and Åland) engineered by Queen Margaret I of Denmark, his great-aunt and adoptive mother, who retains de facto power in the realm.

July–December

• July 12 – King Richard II of England orders the arrest of members of a group of powerful barons known as the Lords Appellant, including Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel. Gloucester is murdered while under house arrest on September 9 and Arundel is behaded on September 21. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Thomas_of_Woodstock.jpg" caption="The murder of King Richard's uncle, Thomas of Gloucester"] ::

• August 28 – As part of a division of the state of Holstein, the northernmost member of the Holy Roman Empire, between Count Albert II and his brother Count Gerhard VI (following the death of their uncle, Nicholas, Gerhard receives the Duchy of Schleswig and nearly all of Rendsburg, while Albert receives HOlstein-Segeberg.

• September 9 – While under house arrest at Calais, awaiting trial for treason against his nephew, King Richard II of England, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester is assassinated.

• September 29

  • John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter, by his half-brother King Richard II of England.
  • Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's brother, is created Duke of Surrey by King Richard.
  • Ralph Neville, Baron Neville is created as the first Earl of Westmorland.

• October 13 – Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London since June 8 when he was chosen by King Richard II following the June 6 death of the Lord Mayor Adam Bamme, is overwhelmingly approved by London's freemen to serve permanently after Whittington had negotiated a deal to settle its debt to the King for £10,000.

• October –

  • The Lin Kuan rebellion by the Kam people and Miao people of China in the Huguang province (now parts of the Hubei and Hunan provinces, against the Ming dynasty, ends after less than a year as Lin Kuan and his surviving followers are executed. Historical accounts indicate that more than 21,000 of the Kam civilians were killed during the suppression of the insurrection.
  • Matthew I of Constantinople becomes the new Patriarch to lead the Eastern Orthodox Church to replace the previous Patriarch, Callistus II Xanthopoulos.

• November 8 – Thomas Arundel, accused of high treason by King Richard II of England, is replaced by Roger Walden as Archbishop of Canterbury.

• December 31 – The Peace of Breno is signed in Val Camonica to temporarily halt the fighting between between the Guelphs (who favor the Republic of Venice) and the Ghibellines (who favor the Duchy of Milan) in the fighting between the two nations.

Date unknown

• The Ottomans capture the town of Vidin, the capital of the Tsardom of Vidin, the only remaining independent Bulgarian state. Emperor Ivan Sratsimir of Vidin is taken prisoner by early this year and later disappears while his son Constantine II becomes Emperor in his place.
• Temür Qutlugh is crowned as the Khan of Golden Horde with the help of general Edigu, although Edigu continues to hold the real power.
• The Università, a form of local government, is established in Malta.
• The Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery is founded in northwestern Russia.
• The Sretensky Monastery is founded in Moscow.
• The first hospital in al-Andalus is created, at Granada.
• Neuhausergasse 4, the brewer of Spaten, is listed on the register of Munich breweries.
• Gregory of Tatev writes the Book of Questions, a ten-volume encyclopedic work, at the Tatev Monastery, in Armenia.

Births

• February 21 – Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1471)
• May 15 – Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)
• August 10 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
• November 15 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
• date unknown
  • Chimalpopoca, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (d. 1427)
  • Tlacaelel, Aztec nobleman (d. 1487)
  • Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1482)
  • John de Ros, 7th Baron Ros, English noble and soldier (d. 1421)
  • Paolo Uccello, Florentine painter (d. 1475)

Deaths

• January 11 – Skirgaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania
• February 18 – Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (b. 1340)
• March 14 – Henry VIII the Sparrow, Duke of Żagań–Głogów (b. c. 1357)
• April 25 – Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (b. 1350)
• June 3 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
• June 16 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
• July 15 – Catherine of Henneberg, German ruler (b. c. 1334)
• September 2 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer
• September 8 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1355)
• September 15 – Adam Easton, English cardinal
• September 21 – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
• October 6 – Vuk Branković, Serbian lord (b. 1345)

References

References

1. Brunelli, Giampiero. (2017). "Savelli, Paolo".
2. (2004). "A History of India". Psychology Press.
3. [[Joan M. Hussey]], The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, [[Oxford University Press]] (1986), p. 289
4. Erich Trapp, et al.,''Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit'' (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1976) ISBN 3-7001-3003-1
5. Seward, Desmond. (1982). "The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453". Atheneum.
6. Detlev Kraack, "Die frühen Schauenburger als Grafen von Holstein und Stormarn (12.-14. Jahrhundert)" ("The early Schauenburg family as Counts of Holstein and Stormarn (12th-14th centuries)", in: E. Imberger, D. Lohmeier and I. Momsen (eds.): ''Die Fürsten des Landes. Herzöge und Grafen von Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg'' ("The princes of the land: Dukes and counts of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg) (Neumünster, 2008) pp.28-51
7. "Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of", ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (11th ed.), Volume 12, ed. by Hugh Chisholm (Cambridge University Press, 1911) p.130
8. Sutton, Anne. (2004). "[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]".
9. D. Norman Geary, ''The Kam People of China: Turning Nineteen'' (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) pp. 9-11 ISBN 9780700715015
10. Erich Trapp, et al.,''Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit'' (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1976) ISBN 3-7001-3003-1
11. Biblioteca civica Angelo Mai Bergamo, ms. MAB 031 [https://www.bdl.servizirl.it/vufind/Record/BDL-OGGETTO-5152. online], Gregorio di Valcamonica 1698, p. 409
12. "Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts – Hospitals". U.S. National Library of Medicine.
13. "Nicholas V {{!}} Vatican Library & Dum Diversas".
14. (July 2, 2016). "Chimalpopoca, "Escudo humeante (1417-1426)".

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::