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Events

Politics and world affairs

Portugal

May 28: After the death of Alfonso IV, his son Peter I ascended the Portuguese throne. This ends a long-lasting dispute within the House of Burgundy between father and son, which at times took on civil war-like proportions.

France

Spring: Dissatisfaction in France, sparked by a coin devaluation ordered by him, forces the Dauphin Karl, who has been regent for a year, to return to Paris from Metz. At a congress he accepts, against the orders of his father, the reform program of Étienne Marcels, the head of the Paris Commercial Guild. It thus permits the formation of a council composed of the estates, which is to participate in the political decision-making of the crown. The French state is thus adopting a constitutional constitution for the first time, for which Charles is granted a special tax of five million livre by the estates. In the same year he succeeded in negotiating an armistice with England in the Hundred Years' War, although northern France continues to be haunted by mercenary gangs.
9 November: Charles II in French captivity. Navarra manages to escape. According to other sources, he is released. He quickly resumes contact with the allied Englishmen.

Monaco/Genoa

The Republic of Genoa under the doge Simone Boccanegra once again besieges the too powerful Monaco of the Grimaldis. In the defense of the city, lord Charles I is killed. His son Rainier II. closes on 9. August, an agreement with Genoa: he is allowed to keep the castles and the property of his father, but must cede Monaco to Genoa against a payment of 20,000 Florin. Rainier is expelled from Monaco and goes on French service.

Brabant

June 4: The Brabant War of Succession ends with the Peace of Ath, mediated by Duke Wilhelm I of Bavaria. Ludwig von Male, Count of Flanders, and his wife Margarete von Brabant accept the original succession scheme after one year of fighting. Margarete’s older sister Johanna of Brabant and her husband Wenceslas I of Luxembourg take over the rule in the duchies of Brabant and Limburg. In return, Ludwig and Margarete receive the lords Antwerp and Mechelen.

Holy Roman Empire

January 7: The Metz Hoftag ends with the excerpt of Emperor Charles IV from Metz.
The Vogtland War, which began in 1354, ended with the crushing defeat of the Vögte von Weida, Gera and Plauen against Emperor Charles IV. In the course of the war, at least sixty castles are said to have been destroyed in the Vogtland. The guards did not have much to oppose the act of violence, also due to ever higher debts. As a result of the war, the Plauener Vögte lose almost all property. The cities of Mylau and Reichenbach of the younger line fall to the b