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Year 1430 (MCDXXX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 7 – Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, marries Isabella of Portugal.
• January 10 – Philip the Good founds the Order of the Golden Fleece.
• March 29 – The Ottoman Empire, under Murad II, captures Thessalonica after an eight-year siege.
• May 14 – The French first attempt to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.
• May 23 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
• June 14 – William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.
• July 11 – Battle of Trnava: The Hussites defeat the Hungarian-Moravian-Serbian army.
• October 27 – Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin Vytautas as ruler of Lithuania.

Date unknown

• With the surrender of Chalandritsa and the citadel of Patras to the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, the Principality of Achaea comes to an end.
• Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund of Luxemburg.
• Optical methods are first used in the creation of art.

Births

• March 10 – Oliviero Carafa, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1511)
• March 23 – Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)
• June 13 – Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, Portuguese infante (d. 1506)
• June 27 – Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses (d. 1475)
• October 16 – King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) and his twin Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (d. 1430)
• October 28 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English soldier, son of Reginald West (d. 1475)
• November 11 – Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau, Grand Prior of the Order of St. John (d. 1467)
• date unknown
  • Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord
  • Barbara von Ottenheim, German alleged witch and sculpture model (d. 1484)
  • Isabel Bras Williamson, Scottish merchant (d. 1493)
  • Joana de Castre, Catalan noble (d. 1480)
• probable – Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (d. 1505)
• approximate – Clara Hätzlerin, German scribe (d. 1476)

Deaths

• January 5 – Philippa of England, queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1394)
• January 29 or 1427 – Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (possible date; b. 1360)
• April 18 – John III, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count
• August 4 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
• August 18 – Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)
• October 27 – Vytautas, Grand Prince of Lithuania (b. 1352)
• date unknown
  • Thomas FitzAlan, English noble
  • Christine de Pizan, Italian proto-feminist writer (b. 1364)

References

1. "Margaret of Anjou | queen of England". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
2. Panton, James (2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy. Scarecrow Press. p. 370. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8.
3. Dek, A.W.E. (1970). Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau (in Dutch). Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek. p. 214.
4. "World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan". www.open.edu. Retrieved August 22, 2018.

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