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Events

Politics and world affairs

Holy Roman Empire / France

End of June: In the Treaty of Paris it comes between King Philip IV of France and the Roman-German King Henry VII. a peace-like understanding. Disputes should be settled by arbitration.

July 22: After a three-month siege, French troops conquer the city of Lyon, previously part of the Holy Roman Empire. The Treaty of Paris therefore lapses. Diplomatic contacts are temporarily terminated.
August 30: Henry VII deposed Henry of Carinthia as King of Bohemia. He married his son Johann to the daughter of the former Bohemian king Wenceslas II after having leaned to Johann with the Kingdom of Bohemia. This unites Bohemia and Luxembourg as the home power of the Luxembourgers.

October: Henry VII. He attempts a Renovatio imperii and moves to Italy. At the end of October, he crosses Mont Cenis, while his son Johann is left behind as an imperial vicar. The emperor’s dignity in imperial Italy is marked by ongoing power struggles between the emperor-faithful Ghibellines and the papal and emperor-hostile Guelphs. Heinrich initially strives for a balance between the groups.
After arriving in Italy, Heinrich first stays in the Turin area, where a first legation of Lombard cities pays homage to him. In the effort to achieve a balance of interests, the king intervenes repeatedly in the inner conditions of the communes and has their recognition of the imperial supremacy confirmed by documents. In fact, he thus assumes direct government power over the Commune and exercises an arbitration function. The king also tries to establish an administration in Upper Italy with the establishment of royal vicars. His brother-in-law Amadeus V of Savoy, who plays an essential role in this, is appointed Generalstatthalter. Henry’s measures finally create a conflict between the king and the self-confident communes.

End of December: When Henry arrives in front of Milan and enters the city as part of the usual festively staged invasion (adventus regis), he encounters for the first time resistance from anti-imperial forces under the leadership of the city lord Guido della Torre. Nevertheless, there is a superficial reconciliation between Guido and his emperor-friendly opponent Matteo I. Visconti.

Ratsherr Gerhard von Köln takes over the first guard on the newly built tower on the part of the island of Neuwerk that has been part of Hamburg since 1286.

Republic of Venice

June 14: Under the leadership of Baiamonte Tiepolo and the Badoer family, an uprising against Doge Pietro Gradenigo begins in Venice. Tiepolo, descendant of two former Doges, wants to transform the Maritime Republic into an ancestral monarchy. However, since the Doge is warned early, the uprising can already be