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Events from the year 1324 in France
Incumbents
Events
- January 23 – England's envoy to France, Ralph Basset, and Raymond-Bernard de Montpezat, decline to obey an order to appear before King Charles IV of France to answer for the October 16 burning of Saint-Sardos. King Charles orders their properties forfeited to the crown.
- March 26 – Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France, dies of injuries after falling from a carriage while she and King Charles IV of France were riding from Paris and Avignon. After she fell, she had gone into labor and given birth prematurely to a son, who died shortly afterward.
- May 3 – France's Consistori del Gay Saber holds its first annual contest to determine the best poet in the Kingdom. Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari wins the first prize, the violeta d'aur. The contest continues for 160 years, ceasing in 1484.
- June 13 – King Edward II of England dispatches his envoy, Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke to France in an attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the Saint-Sardos incident. Stopping at Saint-Riquier 10 days later, Pembroke dies of a heart attack before reaching Paris.
- June 24 – King Charles IV of France issues an order declaring the Duchy of Aquitaine, French territory ruled by King Edward II of England, forfeited to the crown. The move comes after King Edward fails to render homage, as Duke of Aquitaine, to King Charles. A French army of 7,000 men is massed at the border of Aquitaine for an invasion.
- July 5 – A royal wedding takes place in France as King Charles IV marries his cousin Joan of Évreux, the 14-year-old daughter of his uncle, Louis, Count of Évreux.
- September 11 – When the body of King Sancho of Majorca arrives in the French city of Perpignan for interment at the Perpignan Cathedral, a mob attacks the funeral procession and steals valuables that had accompanied the corpse.
- September 22 – The War of Saint-Sardos ends after Charles, Count of Valois forces the surrender of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent at La Réole, the last English fortress at the Duchy of Aquitaine. A six-month truce follows
Date unknown
- Artist Jean Pucelle is commissioned to make a book of hours, known as the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, by Joan of Évreux probably as a gift from her husband King Charles IV of France between 1324 and 1328.
- The Gothic sculpture Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux was created sometime between the years 1324 and 1339.
Births
Date unknown
- William the Rich, Marquis of Namur, French nobleman and ruler (d. 1391)
Deaths
- March 26 – Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France (b. 1304)
- March – Louis of France, second son of Charles IV of France and Marie of Luxembourg (b. 1324)
- June 23 – Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (c. 1270)
Notes
- For a full list of laureates (1324–1694) with the flowers awarded and winning works, see Gélis 1912, p. 285 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFGélis1912 (help).
References
- "Charles IV king of France". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- Sumption, Jonathan (23 August 1999). Hundred Years War Vol 1: Trial by Battle. Vol. 1. Faber & Faber. pp. 159–161. ISBN 978-0571200955.
- RHGF XXI, E floribus chronicorum auctore Bernardo Guidonis, p. 733.
- ^ Christian Bouyer: Dictionnaire des Reines de France, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1992,
- Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War, Volume 1: Trial by Battle (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) p.94-95
- Stephen Spinks, Robert the Bruce: Champion of a Nation (Amberley Publishing, 2019)
- David d'Avray, Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage 860–1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2015) p.232
- Philip Daileader, True Citizens: Violence, Memory, and Identity in the Medieval Community of Perpignan, 1162-1397 (BRILL, 2000) p.105
- "Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent (1301–1330): a study of personal loyalty", by Penny Lawne, in Fourteenth Century England, ed. by Chris Given-Wilson (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) p.34
- Keane, Marguerite A. (2 June 2016). Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398). Brill. p. 9. ISBN 978-9004248366.
- Benton, Janetta Rebold (August 27, 2009). Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art. Praeger Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-0275994181.
- "Virgin and Child of Jeanne d'Evreux | Louvre Museum | Paris". www.louvre.fr. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
- Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, "Vierge à l'Enfant de Jeanne d'Évreux", dans Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, catalogue d'exposition du musée du Louvre, Paris, RMN, 1991, n° 51, p. 246-254, ISBN 2-7118-2350-4.
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