Daga

Events

1307, the October 13rd, arrest of the Templiers in France by the king Philippe Beautiful the, with the agreement of the pope Clement V.

1311: September 20th, opening of the Council of Vienna, at 10 a.m., in the Saint-Maurice cathedral (in Vienna)

1311 - 1322: There were two sessions of the council of Vienna.

1313: Henri VII, of Luxembourg, dies poisoned by a host.

1314: Monday March 18th, Jacques de Molay, 22e Large Master about the Temple, is burned in front of the people, on a estrade, drawn up vis-a-vis the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, on the Island with the Jews (place which does not exist any more like such today).

1316: the pope Jean XXII succeeds Clément V

Significant characters

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Economy & company

• During the period angevine, the surface of the kingdom of Hungary, without counting the provisional conquests and the vassal dependences, is estimated at 300.000 km ², populated approximately 3 million inhabitants. One counts 49 free royal cities, 638 boroughs enjoying privileges, and some 21.000 villages. Approximately 2,4 million people is free peasants who exploit nearly 300.000 properties commoners or tenures, of 20 ha on average. From 360.000 to 480.000 people are obligations with serfdom. The country counts approximately 2000 big landowners, 40.000 means and a nobility of 150.000 small holders, with only 50.000 townsmen. The population is not very dense and immigration continues, especially in the outlying areas, in Slovakia and Transylvania, with the installation of colonists Rumanian, Moravian, Polish, ruthenes and German.

• Naples account 30.000 inhabitants. Under Robert of Anjou, the kingdom seems stable and prosperous, and its unit rests on the feudal organization. Actually, less populated, equipped with small towns, it is very poor. The export of food products in the South of the Italy is ensured by foreign merchants who on the spot do not leave almost anything the benefit carried out. The lords take their share on the transactions, and the farming community life in a great poverty. The economic crisis of the 14th century will strike full whip the country already weakened. Whole areas will be deserted, and in certain parts of the Sicily, 50% of the villages disappear.

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