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Events from the 1270s in England.

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Incumbents

Monarch - Henry III (to 16 November 1272), Edward I

Events

  • 1270
  • April - Parliament levies a property tax to support the Eighth Crusade.
  • 9 September - William Chillenden elected to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • 20 August - Prince Edward participates in the Ninth Crusade with his wife Eleanor of Castile.
  • Battle of Áth-an-Chip: The army of the Irish Kingdom of Connacht routs the English army near Carrick-on-Shannon.
  • 1271
  • Prince Edward reaches Acre during the Ninth Crusade.
  • 1272
  • Summer - Pope Gregory X sets aside the election of William Chilldenden to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • 24 September - Prince Edward leaves Acre at the end of the Ninth Crusade for Sicily.
  • 11 October - Robert Kilwardby enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 16 November - King Henry III dies; Prince Edward succeeds him as Edward I of England.
  • Court of Common Pleas established as a permanent body, and receives its first chief justice (Gilbert of Preston).
  • The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers receives the right to regulate the leather trade in London.
  • 1273
  • Edward pays homage to Philip III of France.
  • 1274
  • 2 August - Edward I returns to England from the Ninth Crusade.
  • 19 August - Coronation of Edward I.
  • The Hundred Rolls are commissioned, enquiring into the rights of English landowners.
  • Merton College, Oxford receives its statutes, the first English university college to do so.
  • 1275
  • 22 April - Edward I's first parliament meets and passes the first Statute of Westminster, codifying the existing law in England, in 51 chapters of Norman French, and defining legal privileges.
  • May - Parliament imposes the first regular customs duty on wool and leather.
  • 11 September - Earthquake in southern England damages churches at Glastonbury.
  • Llywelyn ap Gruffudd refuses to pay homage to Edward I; Llywelyn's proxy bride Eleanor de Montfort (Edward's cousin) is captured at sea off the south-west of England and held prisoner at Windsor Castle as a bargaining counter for Llywelyn's compliance.
  • New statute forbids Jews from charging interest on loans.
  • 1276
  • November - Edward I invades Wales.
  • Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use.
  • 1277
  • 9 November - Treaty of Aberconwy: Llywelyn to retain control of Gwynedd in return for paying homage to England; Edward to rule the remainder of Wales.
  • St George's Cross is first recorded in use as the national flag of England.
  • 1278
  • June or July - Robert Burnell elected to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • 7 August - Statute of Gloucester defines competences of local courts and establishes legal procedures for claiming a right to privileges.
  • 13 October - The King allows his cousin Eleanor de Montfort to marry Llywelyn ap Gruffudd at Worcester Cathedral.
  • 17 November - All Jews in England imprisoned on suspicion of coin clipping.
  • 1279
  • January - Pope Nicholas III quashes the election of Robert Burnell to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • 25 January - John Peckham enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • The first of the Statutes of Mortmain prevents land from passing into possession of the church.
  • December - New coinage issued, including the first groats and round farthings and a new silver halfpenny.
  • Itinerant royal judges are ordered to inquire into confederacies against justice, thus effectively making conspiracy a crime.
  • The Royal Mint moves to the Tower of London by this year.
  • Further round of Hundred Rolls commissioned.

    • Births

  • 1270
  • Approximate date - Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, military leader (executed 1323)
  • 1271
  • May - Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I (died 1307)
  • 1273
  • 24 November - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I (died 1284)
  • 1274
  • Approximate date - Adam Murimuth, ecclesiastic and chronicler (died 1347)
  • 1275
  • 18 August - Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere (died 1322)
  • Approximate date - Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (died 1324)
  • 1276
  • Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (died in battle 1322)
  • 1278
  • Approximate date - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, politician (executed 1322)

    • Deaths

  • 1270
  • 18 July - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury, (born c. 1217)
  • Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk (born 1212)
  • 1271
  • 13 March - Henry of Almain, crusader (born 1235)
  • Richard de Grey, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (year of birth unknown)
  • 1272
  • 18 March - John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (born 1246)
  • 2 April - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (born 1209)
  • 16 November - King Henry III (born 1207)
  • Bartholomeus Anglicus, Franciscan monk and encyclopedia author (born before 1203)
  • Approximate date - William of Sherwood, logician (born c.1200)
  • 1275
  • 26 February - Margaret of England, daughter of Henry III of England and consort of Alexander III of Scotland (born 1240)
  • 13 April - Eleanor of England (born 1215)
  • 24 September - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (born 1208)
  • 1277
  • 27 October - Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor and founder of Merton College, Oxford (born c. 1205)
  • 1279
  • 11 September - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 1215)
  • Walter Giffard, Lord Chancellor and archbishop (year of birth unknown)

    • References

    1270s in England Wikipedia
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