1270s in England:

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1250s 1250s in England Events from the 1250s in England.-Events:* 1250** Gascons revolt against English governor Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.** First written reference to Summer is icumen in, one of the oldest known English song lyrics.* 1251...  | 1260s 1260s in England Events from the 1260s in England.-Events:* 1260** Llewelyn the Last attacks English forces in South Wales.** 22 August - Truce agreed between England and Wales.* 1261...  | 1270s | 1280s 1280s in England Events from the 1280s in England.-Events:* 1280** University College, Oxford established.* 1281* 1282** 21 March - Dafydd ap Gruffydd leads rebellion in Wales....  | 1290s 1290s in England Events from the 1290s in England.-Events:* 1290** 21 May - The statute of quo warranto establishes the concept of time immemorial in English law, dating it to the accession of Richard I of England in 1189....

Incumbents

Events

• 1270
  • April - Parliament levies a property tax to support the Eighth Crusade
    Eighth Crusade
    The Eighth Crusade was a crusade launched by Louis IX, King of France, in 1270. The Eighth Crusade is sometimes counted as the Seventh, if the Fifth and Sixth Crusades of Frederick II are counted as a single crusade...
    
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  • 9 September - William Chillenden elected to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • 20 August - Prince Edward
    Edward I of England
    Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons...
    
     participates in the Eighth Crusade.
  • Army of Connaught
    Connacht
    Connacht , formerly anglicised as Connaught, is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the west of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for...
    
     routs English army near Carrick-on-Shannon
    Carrick-on-Shannon
    Carrick-on-Shannon is the county town of County Leitrim in Ireland. It is also the smallest main county town in the country . It is situated on a strategic crossing point of the River Shannon and is the largest town in the county. The population of the town was 3,163 in 2006. It is in the barony...
    
    .
• 1271
  • Prince Edward reaches Acre
    Acre
    The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.The acre is related...
    
     during the Ninth Crusade
    Ninth Crusade
    The Ninth Crusade, which is sometimes grouped with the Eighth Crusade, is commonly considered to be the last major medieval Crusade to the Holy Land. It took place in 1271–1272....
    
    .
• 1272
  • Summer - Pope Gregory X
    Pope Gregory X
    Pope Blessed Gregory X , born Tebaldo Visconti, was Pope from 1271 to 1276. He was elected by the papal election, 1268–1271, the longest papal election in the history of the Roman Catholic Church....
    
     sets aside the election of William Chilldenden to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • 11 October - Robert Kilwardby
    Robert Kilwardby
    Robert Kilwardby was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England and as well as a cardinal.-Life:Kilwardby studied at the University of Paris, then was a teacher of grammar and logic there. He then joined the Dominican Order and studied theology, and became regent at Oxford University before 1261,...
    
     enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
    Archbishop of Canterbury
    The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
    
    .
  • 16 November - King Henry III
    Henry III of England
    Henry III was the son and successor of John as King of England, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the reign of Æthelred the Unready...
    
     dies; Prince Edward succeeds him as Edward I of England.
  • Court of Common Pleas
    Court of Common Pleas (England)
    The Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, was a common law court in the English legal system that covered "common pleas"; actions between subject and subject, which did not concern the king. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century after splitting from the Exchequer of Pleas, the Common...
    
     established as a permanent body, and receives its first chief justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
    
    .
  • The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers
    Worshipful Company of Cordwainers
    The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Cordwainers were workers in fine leather; the Company gets its name from "cordwain" , the white leather produced from goatskin in Cordova, Spain...
    
     receives the right to regulate the leather
    Leather
    Leather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different manufacturing processes, ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.-Forms:...
    
     trade in London
    London
    London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
    
    .
• 1273
  • Edward pays homage
    Homage (medieval)
    Homage in the Middle Ages was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position . It was a symbolic acknowledgment to the lord that the vassal was, literally, his man . The oath known as...
    
     to Philip III of France
    Philip III of France
    Philip III , called the Bold , was the King of France, succeeding his father, Louis IX, and reigning from 1270 to 1285. He was a member of the House of Capet.-Biography:...
    
    .
• 1274
  • 2 August - Edward I returns to England from the Ninth Crusade
    Ninth Crusade
    The Ninth Crusade, which is sometimes grouped with the Eighth Crusade, is commonly considered to be the last major medieval Crusade to the Holy Land. It took place in 1271–1272....
    
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  • 19 August - Coronation of Edward I.
  • The Hundred Rolls
    Hundred Rolls
    The Hundred Rolls are a census of England and parts of what is now Wales taken in the late thirteenth century. Often considered an attempt to produce a second Domesday Book, they are named for the hundreds by which most returns were recorded....
    
     are commissioned, enquiring into the rights of English landowners.
  • Merton College, Oxford
    Merton College, Oxford
    Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to...
    
     receives its statutes, the first English university college to do so.
• 1275
  • 25 April - Edward I's first parliament
    Parliament of England
    The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England. In 1066, William of Normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws...
    
     meets.
  • May - Parliament imposes the first regular customs duty on wool
    Wool
    Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....
    
     and leather
    Leather
    Leather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different manufacturing processes, ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.-Forms:...
    
    .
  • Parliament passes the first Statute of Westminster, defining legal privileges.
  • Llywelyn the Last
    Llywelyn the Last
    Llywelyn ap Gruffydd or Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf , sometimes rendered as Llywelyn II, was the last prince of an independent Wales before its conquest by Edward I of England....
    
     refuses to pay homage to Edward I.
  • New statute forbids Jews from charging interest
    Interest
    Interest is a fee paid by a borrower of assets to the owner as a form of compensation for the use of the assets. It is most commonly the price paid for the use of borrowed money, or money earned by deposited funds....
    
     on loans.
• 1276
  • November - Edward I invades Wales
    Wales
    Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
    
    .
• 1277
  • 9 November - Treaty of Aberconwy
    Treaty of Aberconwy
    The Treaty of Aberconwy was signed in 1277 by King Edward I of England and Llewelyn the Last of modern-day Wales, who had fought each other on and off for years over control of the Welsh countryside...
    
    : Llywelyn to retain control of Gwynedd
    Gwynedd
    Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated...
    
     in return for paying homage to England; Edward to rule the remainder of Wales.
• 1278
  • June or July - Robert Burnell
    Robert Burnell
    Robert Burnell was an English bishop who served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1274 to 1292. A native of Shropshire, he served as a minor royal official before entering into the service of Prince Edward, the future King Edward I of England...
    
     elected to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • 7 August - Statute of Gloucester
    Statute of Gloucester
    Statute of Gloucester is one of the most important pieces of legislation enacted in the Parliament of England during the reign of Edward I. The Statute, proclaimed at Gloucester in August 1278, was crucial to the development of English law....
    
     defines competences of local courts and establishes legal procedures for claiming a right to privileges.
  • 17 November - All Jews
    Jews
    The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
    
     in England imprisoned on suspicion of coin clipping
    Coin clipping
    Coin debasement is the act of decreasing the amount of precious metal in a coin, while continuing to circulate it at face value. This was frequently done by governments in order to inflate the amount of currency in circulation; typically, some of the precious metal was replaced by a cheaper metal...
    
    .
• 1279
  • January - Pope Nicholas III
    Pope Nicholas III
    Pope Nicholas III , born Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, Pope from November 25, 1277 to his death in 1280, was a Roman nobleman who had served under eight Popes, been made cardinal-deacon of St...
    
     quashes the election of Robert Burnell to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • 25 January - John Peckham
    John Peckham
    John Peckham was Archbishop of Canterbury in the years 1279–1292. He was a native of Sussex who was educated at Lewes Priory and became a Franciscan friar about 1250. He studied at Paris under Bonaventure, where he later taught theology. From his teaching, he came into conflict with Thomas...
    
     enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • The first of the Statutes of Mortmain
    Statutes of Mortmain
    The Statutes of Mortmain were two enactments, in 1279 and 1290, by King Edward I of England aimed at preserving the kingdom's revenues by preventing land from passing into the possession of the Church. In Medieval England, feudal estates generated taxes upon the inheritance or granting of the estate...
    
     prevents land from passing into possession of the church.
  • December - New coinage issued, including the first groat
    Groat
    Groat or Fuppence is the traditional name of an English silver coin worth four English pence, and also a Scottish coin originally worth fourpence, with later issues being valued at eightpence and one shilling.-Name:...
    
    s and round farthings and a new silver halfpenny.
  • Itinerant royal judge
    Judge
    A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...
    
    s are ordered to inquire into confederacies against justice, thus effectively making conspiracy
    Conspiracy (crime)
    In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherance of that agreement...
    
     a crime.
  • The Royal Mint
    Royal Mint
    The Royal Mint is the body permitted to manufacture, or mint, coins in the United Kingdom. The Mint originated over 1,100 years ago, but since 2009 it operates as Royal Mint Ltd, a company which has an exclusive contract with HM Treasury to supply all coinage for the UK...
    
     moves to the Tower of London
    Tower of London
    Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space...
    
     by this year.
  • Further round of Hundred Rolls
    Hundred Rolls
    The Hundred Rolls are a census of England and parts of what is now Wales taken in the late thirteenth century. Often considered an attempt to produce a second Domesday Book, they are named for the hundreds by which most returns were recorded....
    
     commissioned.

Births

• 1271
  • May - Joan of Acre
    Joan of Acre
    Joan of Acre was an English princess, a daughter of the King Edward I of England and queen Eleanor of Castile...
    
    , daughter of King Edward I
    Edward I of England
    Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons...
    
     (died 1307)
• 1273
  • 24 November - Alphonso, Earl of Chester
    Alphonso, Earl of Chester
    Alphonso was the ninth child of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. During his lifetime, he was first in line to his father's throne of England and to his mother's county of Ponthieu in France....
    
    , son of Edward I
    Edward I of England
    Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons...
    
     (died 1284)
• 1274
  • Adam Murimuth
    Adam Murimuth
    Adam Murimuth was an English ecclesiastic and chronicler.-Life:He was born in 1274 or 1275 and studied civil law at the University of Oxford. Between 1312 and 1318 he practised in the papal curia at Avignon...
    
    , ecclesiastic and chronicler (approximate date; died 1347)
• 1275
  • Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere
    Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere
    Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere , English nobleman, was the son and heir of Gunselm de Badlesmere , and fought in the English army both in France and Scotland during the later years of the reign of Edward I of England.-Life:In 1307 he became governor of Bristol Castle. Edward II...
    
     (died 1322)
• 1276
  • Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford
    Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford
    Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford was a member of a powerful Anglo-Norman family of the Welsh Marches and was one of the Ordainers who opposed Edward II's excesses.-Family background :...
    
     (died 1322)

Deaths

• 1270
  • 18 July - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
    Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
    Boniface of Savoy was a medieval Bishop of Belley in France and Archbishop of Canterbury in England. He was the son of the Count of Savoy, and owed his initial ecclesiastical posts to his father. Other members of his family were also clergymen, and a brother succeeded his father as count...
    
    , (born c. 1217)
  • Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk
    Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk
    Roger Bigod was 4th Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England.He was the son of Hugh Bigod, and Matilda, a daughter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and Marshal of England. After the death of his father in 1225 Roger became the ward of William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury...
    
     (born 1212)
• 1271
  • 13 March - Henry of Almain
    Henry of Almain
    Henry of Almain , so called because of his father's German connections as King of the Romans , was the son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall and Isabel Marshal.As a nephew of both Henry III and Simon de Montfort, he wavered between the two at the beginning of the Barons' War, but...
    
    , crusader (born 1235)
  • Richard de Grey
    Richard de Grey
    Richard de Grey of Codnor, Derbyshire, was a landowner who held many important positions during the reign of Henry III of England, including governor of the Channel Islands and later both constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1258 irregularly to 1264.-Family:Richard, 1 Dec...
    
    , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (year of birth unknown)
• 1272
  • 18 March - John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel
    John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel
    John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman. He was also feudal Lord of Clun and Oswestry in the Welsh Marches.-Family:...
    
     (born 1246)
  • 2 April - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
    Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
    Richard of Cornwall was Count of Poitou , 1st Earl of Cornwall and German King...
    
     (born 1209)
  • 16 November - King Henry III
    Henry III of England
    Henry III was the son and successor of John as King of England, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the reign of Æthelred the Unready...
    
     (born 1207)
  • Bartholomeus Anglicus, Franciscan monk and encyclopedia author (born before 1203)
• 1275
  • 26 February - Margaret of England
    Margaret of England
    Margaret of England was a medieval English princess who became Queen of Scots. A daughter of the Plantagenet king Henry III of England and his queen, Eleanor of Provence, she was Queen consort to Alexander III "the Glorious", King of the Scots.- Family :She was the second child of Henry III of...
    
    , daughter of Henry III of England
    Henry III of England
    Henry III was the son and successor of John as King of England, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the reign of Æthelred the Unready...
    
     and consort of Alexander III of Scotland
    Alexander III of Scotland
    Alexander III was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.-Life:...
    
     (born 1240)
  • 13 April - Eleanor of England (born 1215)
  • 24 September - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford
    Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford
    Humphrey de Bohun was 2nd Earl of Hereford and 1st Earl of Essex, as well as Constable of England. He was the son of Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford and Maud of Essex.- Career :...
    
    , Constable of England (born 1208)
• 1277
  • 27 October - Walter de Merton
    Walter de Merton
    Walter de Merton was Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford.-Life:Walter was born probably at Merton in Surrey or educated there; hence the surname. He came of a land-owning family at Basingstoke; beyond that there is no definite information as to the date or place of birth...
    
    , Lord Chancellor
    Lord Chancellor
    The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...
    
     and founder of Merton College, Oxford
    Merton College, Oxford
    Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to...
    
     (born c. 1205)
• 1279
  • 11 September - Robert Kilwardby
    Robert Kilwardby
    Robert Kilwardby was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England and as well as a cardinal.-Life:Kilwardby studied at the University of Paris, then was a teacher of grammar and logic there. He then joined the Dominican Order and studied theology, and became regent at Oxford University before 1261,...
    
    , Archbishop of Canterbury
    Archbishop of Canterbury
    The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
    
     (born c. 1215)
  • Walter Giffard
    Walter Giffard
    Walter Giffard was Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York.-Family:Giffard was the son of Hugh Giffard, of Boyton in Wiltshire; his mother was Sibyl, the daughter and co-heiress of Walter de Cormeilles. Walter was born about 1225, and may have been the oldest son. Hugh and Sybil were...
    
    , Lord Chancellor
    Lord Chancellor
    The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...
    
    and archbishop (year of birth unknown)