Elizabeth's third child, Gertrude of Altenberg ( 1227 – 1297 ), was born several weeks after the death of her father ; she became abbess of the monastery of Altenberg near Wetzlar.

The oldest record about Rzepin dates back to 1297 and it regards the presence of pleban de Repin ( Repin ’ s parson ) Iacobus Craft at a ceremony of granting the village of Wystok to the Paradyż monastery.

The city received municipal rights in 1250 from the Wrocław Duke Henry III the White, and was fortified in 1297.

* 1297 ( Kōan 10, 10th month ): In the 14th year of Go-Uda-tennō's reign ( 後宇多天皇14年 ), the emperor abdicated ; and the succession (‘‘ senso ’’) was received by his cousin.

In 1297 it appears that the Earl ceased his allegiance to Edward I, held his lands of the Scottish Crown, and was favourably received by Sir William Wallace, with whom he had been in bitter battle the previous year!

He was only eleven when his father died on September 11, 1298 from wounds he received at the Battle of Furnes on August 20, 1297 against the Flemish people.

Andronikos III Palaiologos, Latinized as Andronicus III Palaeologus (; 25 March 1297 – 15 June 1341 ) was Byzantine emperor from 1328 to 1341, after being rival emperor since 1321.

It is dated from 1297, as a " mail, defensive covering worn in combat " from Old French armoire, itself derived from the Latin armatura " arms and / or equipment " with the root arma " arms or gear ".

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

Copy of Magna Carta from 1297

The County of Roscommon was separated from Connacht before 1292, and the first session of the Irish parliament in 1297 created the new shires of County Kildare, Meath and Ulster.

First attested in English in 1297, the word pain comes from the Old French peine, in turn from Latin poena, " punishment, penalty " ( in L. L.

The First War of Scottish Independence can be loosely divided into four phases: the initial English invasion and success in 1296 ; the campaigns led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and various Scottish Guardians from 1297 until John Comyn negotiated for the general Scottish submission in February 1304 ; the renewed campaigns led by Robert the Bruce following his killing of The Red Comyn in Dumfries in 1306 to his and the Scottish victory at Bannockburn in 1314 ; and a final phase of Scottish diplomatic initiatives and military campaigns in Scotland, Ireland and Northern England from 1314 until the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.

" Giant " is the English word ( coined 1297 ) commonly used for such beings, derived from one of the most famed examples: the gigantes ( Greek " γίγαντες ") of Greek mythology.

Richard of Wallingford, abbot from 1297 to 1336 and a mathematician and astronomer, designed a celebrated clock, which was completed by William of Walsham after his death, but apparently destroyed during the reformation.

After Floris V had been murdered in 1296, the local Frisian besieged the castle, but in 1297 an army from Holland thwarted their efforts to starve out the inhabitants, which included Medemblik citizens.

Though one chronicle claims he accompanied his father to England in 1297, the first reliable reference to him is from Gascony later that year, when he served in the company of Edward I.

The Irish House of Commons () was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland, that existed from 1297 until 1800.

The king was not the only one to be upset by the archbishop ; the abbot of Oseney, in 1297, was so affected by a rebuke from him that he suffered a fatal heart attack.

The first sense of " assume " in the OED is " to take unto ( oneself ), receive, accept, adopt .” The term was originally employed in religious contexts as in “ to receive up into heaven ,” especially “ the reception of the Virgin Mary into heaven, with body preserved from corruption ,” ( 1297 CE ) but it was also simply used to refer to “ receive into association ” or “ adopt into partnership .” Moreover, other senses of assumere included ( i ) “ investing oneself with ( an attribute ), ” ( ii ) “ to undertake ” ( especially in Law ), ( iii ) “ to take to oneself in appearance only, to pretend to possess ,” and ( iv ) “ to suppose a thing to be ” ( all senses from OED entry on “ assume ”; the OED entry for “ assumption ” is almost perfectly symmetrical in senses ).

# Guta ( Jutte / Bona ) ( 13 March 1271 – 18 June 1297, Prague ), married 24 January 1285 to King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and became the mother of king Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary, of queen Anne of Bohemia ( 1290 – 1313 ), duchess of Carinthia, and of queen Elisabeth of Bohemia ( 1292 – 1330 ), countess of Luxembourg.

* Alexios II of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond ( 1297 – 1330 )

* Charles II of Alençon ( 1297 – 1346 )

* Alexius II of Trebizond ( 1297 – 1330 ), Emperor of Trebizond

Władysław, sold his rights to the Duchy of Kraków to King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia in 1297 and accepted him as his suzerain in 1299.

* 1297 – 1305 Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ( Wacław II Czeski )

Then a part of the Silesian Duchy of Legnica under Bolesław II the Bald, the town from 1297 belonged to the Duchy of Jawor under Bolko I the Strict.

# Hethum II ( b. 14 January 1266 / 13 January 1267 – murdered 7 November 1307 ), King of Armenia ( ruled 1289 to 1293, 1294 to 1297, 1299 to 1307 ).

# John II of Trebizond, 1262 – 1297

* John II of Trebizond ( c. 1262 – 1297 )

Joan of Bar ( 1297 France – 1361 London ) was the younger daughter of Henry III, Count of Bar and Princess Eleanor of England, and niece of Edward II of England.

The troubled reign of John II ( 1280 – 1297 ) included a reconciliation with the Byzantine Empire and the end of Trapezuntine claims to Constantinople.

Trebizond reached its greatest wealth and influence during the long reign of Alexios II ( 1297 – 1330 ).

His son and successor Andronicus II repudiated the union, and Bekkos was forced to abdicate, being eventually exiled and imprisoned until his death in 1297.

* Charles II, Count of Alençon ( 1297 – 26 August 1346 at the Battle of Crécy ).

Their son, the grandson of Andronikos II, was Andronikos III Palaiologos ( 1297 – 1341 ).

William IV's son Walram ( Count from 1278 to 1297 ) remained a fierce opponent of the Bishopric, supporting Duke John I of Brabant at the 1288 Battle of Worringen against Archbishop Siegfried II of Westerburg.

John II Megas Komnenos ( Greek: Ιωάννης Β ΄ Μέγας Κομνηνός, Iōannēs II Megas Komnēnos ) ( c. 1262 – August 16, 1297 ) was Emperor of Trebizond from 1280 to 1297.

Charles II of Alençon, called the Magnanimous ( 1297 – 26 August 1346 ) was the second son of Charles of Valois and his first wife Margaret, and brother of Philip VI, King of France.

* 1270 – 1297: Conrad II of Rietberg

* August 3 – Kestutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania ( b. 1297 )

At Pentecost 1297 the Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Saxony, and King of Bohemia joined together to enforce their interests.

In 1297 it was ceded by the count of Saarbrücken to the Duke of Lorraine, and passed with Lorraine in 1766 to France.