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* 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
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* Albert II of Germany ( 1397 – 1439 ), King of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, Duke of Austria
The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).
Paolo Uccello ( 1397 – 10 December 1475 ), born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.
During the Kalmar Union ( 1397 – 1523 ), controlling Stockholm was crucial to anyone aspiring to control the kingdom, and the city was consequently repeatedly besieged by various Swedish-Danish fractions.
* Sejong the Great of Joseon, a Korean monarch who developed hangul, the native Korean alphabet ( 1397 – 1450 ).
Albert the Magnanimous KG ( 10 August 1397 – 27 October 1439 ) was King of Hungary from 1437 until his death.
* January 7 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England ( d. 1397 )
1397 and Chaucer
He was killed in a judicial duel in 1397, the last scion of his ancient house, and left some amatory poems behind him, while one is extant only in a translation by Chaucer, who makes flattering mention of him.
1397 and Canterbury
On 8 November 1397 he was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury in succession to Thomas Arundel, who had just been banished from the realm, but he lost this position when the new king Henry IV restored Arundel in 1399, and after a short imprisonment he passed into retirement, being, as he himself says, " in the dust and under feet of men.
Thomas Arundel ( 1353 – 19 February 1414 ) was Archbishop of Canterbury in 1397 and from 1399 until his death, an outspoken opponent of the Lollards.
His brother was Thomas Arundel who was Bishop of Ely from 1374 to 1388, then Archbishop of York from 1388 to 1397, then Archbishop of Canterbury.
Henry Yevele, the master mason whose work included the rebuilding of Westminster Hall and the naves of Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, was a parishioner and rebuilt the chapel on London Bridge between 1384 and 1397.
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His tax declarations for some years indicate that he was born in 1397, but in 1446 he claimed to be born in 1396.
The Tang Code was largely retained by later codes such as the early Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) code of 1397, yet there were several revisions in later times, such as improved property rights for women during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).
The common belief that he served three rather than four times as Lord Mayor stems from the City's records ' Liber Albus ' compiled at his request by the City Clerk John Carpenter wherein his name appears only three times as the remainder term of his deceased predecessor Adam Bamme and his own consequent term immediately afterwards appear as one entry for 1397.
Later, after the fires of 1347 and 1351, Haarlem was again granted a Portiuncula indulgence in 1397 for funding to rebuild the church.
On 13 June 1397, she was able to unite the three Scandinavian kingdoms in a personal union under one crown for her successor Eric of Pomerania by the Kalmar Union.
Along with her three brothers, Joan had been privately declared legitimate by their cousin Richard II of England in 1390, but for various reasons their father secured another such declaration from Parliament in January 1397.
* John de la Pole ( died c. 1397 ), MP for Derbyshire ( UK Parliament constituency ) in 1377 and 1394
Paphlagonian is a monstrous giant ( 74-9 ), a snoring sorcerer ( 103 ), a mountain torrent ( 137 ), a hook-footed eagle ( 197 ), garlic pickle ( 199 ), a mud-stirrer ( 306 ), a fisherman watching for shoals of fish ( 313 ), a butchered pig ( 375-81 ), a bee browsing blooms of corruption ( 403 ), a dog-headed ape ( 416 ), a storm by sea and land ( 430-40 ), a giant hurling crags ( 626-29 ), a storm surge at sea ( 691-93 ), a thieving nurse ( 716-18 ), a fishermen hunting eels ( 864-67 ), a boiling pot ( 919-22 ), a lion fighting gnats ( 1037-8 ), a dogfox ( 1067 ), a beggar ( 182-3 ) and finally a sausage seller in the city gates ( 1397 ).
Chrysoloras arrived in the winter of 1397, an event remembered by one his most famous pupils, the humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni, as a great new opportunity: there were many teachers of law, but no one had studied Greek in Italy for 700 years.
Samuel fled Castile-León, Spain, in 1397 for Lisbon, Portugal, and reverted to Judaism-shedding his Converso after living among Christians for six years.
He was close to his cousin King Richard II, and was created Earl of Rutland ( for the term of his father's life ) by him in 1390, Earl of Cork ( Ireland ) in about 1394, and then Duke of Aumale in 1397.
Richard II managed to dispose of the Lords Appellant in 1397, and Thomas was imprisoned in Calais to await trial for treason.
On 29 September 1397, due to his support for King Richard II against the Lords Appellant, Neville was created the 1st Earl of Westmorland.
The first town acquired was Weggis ( in 1380 ), Rothenburg, Kriens, Horw, Sempach and Hochdorf ( all in 1394 ), Wolhusen and Entlebuch ( 1405 ), the so-called " Habsburger region " to the northeast of the town of Lucerne ( 1406 ), Willisau ( 1407 ), Sursee and Beromünster ( 1415 ), Malters ( 1477 ) and Littau ( 1481 ), while in 1803, in exchange for Hitzkirch, Merenschwand ( held since 1397 ) was given up.
In 1397, Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, was punished by King Richard II for being a member of the Lords Appellant.
President Bush announced his support for a Palestinian state, opening the way for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1397, supporting a two-state solution.
It was created in 1397 for Richard II's cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, due to his support for the King in his struggle against their uncle Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
On 12 July 1397 he was arrested for his opposition to Richard II, as well as plotting with Gloucester to imprison the king.
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