Year 1328 (MCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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• January 17 Louis IV, "the Bavarian", is crowned Holy Roman Emperor at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Because of conflict with the Avignon Papacy, the ceremony is carried out by a senator and three Italian bishops.

• January 24 Philippa of Hainault marries King Edward III of England a year after his coronation. The marriage produces ten children, the eldest of whom is Edward the Black Prince.

• May 1 Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton: England recognises Scotland as an independent nation, after the Wars of Scottish Independence.

• May 12 Antipope Nicholas V is consecrated at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by the bishop of Venice.

• May 26 William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon, under threat from Pope John XXII.

• May 29 King Philip VI of France is crowned, founding the House of Valois, after the death of King Charles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.

• August 23 Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.

• Undated The Augustiner-Bräu is first recorded as the brewery of an Augustinian monastery at Munich.</onlyinclude>

Births

• April 1 Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1393)

• May 7 Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)

• June 25 William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)

• September 29 Joan of Kent, princess of Wales, spouse of Edward the Black Prince (d. 1385)

• October 9 King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)

• October 21 Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)

• November 11 Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (d. 1360)

• November 25 Antipope Benedict XIII, born Pedro Martínez de Luna (d. 1423)

date unknown

• Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas ("Archibald the Grim", "Black Archibald"), Scottish magnate and warrior (d. 1400)

• Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (d. 1368)

Deaths

• February 1 King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)

• August 15 Yesün Temür, emperor of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1293)

• August 23 Nicolaas Zannekin, Flemish peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel)

• September 26 Ibn Taymiyyah, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (b. 1263)

• October 12 (or 13) Clementia of Hungary, Queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293)

• November 16 Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shōgun (b. 1276)

date unknown

• Meister Eckhart, German theologian (b. 1260)

• Andronikos Angelos Palaiologos, Byzantine nobleman and governor (b. ca. 1282)

References