* In 1314, the brothers d ' Aulnoy, who were lovers to the daughters-in-law of king Philip IV of France, were flayed alive, then castrated and beheaded ; and their bodies were exposed on a gibbet.

** Philip IV ( 1285 – 1314 )

* Philip IV ( 1285 – 1314 )

An Augustinian, he had studied theology in Paris under St. Thomas of Aquinas to become one of the most authoritative thinkers of his time, and tutor to French king Philip IV the Fair, ( 1268-29 November 1314 ).

** Philip IV the Fair, 1285 – 1314

More administrative reforms were made by Philip IV, also called Philip the Fair ( reigned 1285 – 1314 ).

King Philip IV of France ( 1268 – 1314 ) In 1305, the new Pope Clement V, based in France, sent letters to both the Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay and the Hospitaller Grand Master Fulk de Villaret to discuss the possibility of merging the two Orders.

The last Grand Master was Jacques de Molay, burned at the stake in Paris in 1314 by order of King Philip IV.

Philip was warned against leaving by Enguerrand de Marigny, and he died soon after in November 1314 in a hunting accident.

In the spring of 1314, Edward Bruce laid siege to Stirling Castle, whose governor, Philip de Mowbray, agreed to capitulate if not relieved before 24 June 1314.

* Philip IV of France ( d. 1314 )

Around Lent of 1314, Edward Bruce, brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which was commanded by Sir Philip Mowbray.

* Philip IV the Fair ( 1268 – 1314 ) and Isabella of Aragon ( 1247 – 1271 )

Under Louis IX ( Saint Louis ) ( 1226 – 1270 ) and Philip IV ( Philip the Fair ) ( 1284 – 1314 ) the Merovingian palace was extended and more heavily fortified.

Philip IV (, April – June 1268 – 29 November 1314 ), called the Fair, was King of France from 1285 until his death.

In 1314, Philip had the last Masters of the Templars, Jacques de Molay and Geoffroi de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy, burned at the stake.

In 1314, Margaret, Blanche and Joan — the latter two being the wives of Louis ' brothers Charles and Philip, respectively — were arrested on charges of infidelity.

# Philip IV ( 1268 – 29 November 1314 ), his successor, married Joan I of Navarre

Philip was influenced both by the troubles and unrest that his father had encountered during 1314, and the difficulties that his older brother – Louis X, known as " the Quarreler " had faced during the intervening few years.

* Philip IV of France, aka Philip I of Navarre ( 1268 – 1314 )

When de Molay later retracted his confession, Philip had him slowly burned upon a scaffold on an island in the River Seine in Paris, in March 1314.

After him all kings and emperors relied on the lands of their own family ( Hausmacht ): Louis IV of Wittelsbach ( king 1314, emperor 1328 – 47 ) relied on his lands in Bavaria ; Charles IV of Luxembourg, the grandson of Henry VII, drew strength from his own lands in Bohemia.

Duke Louis IV was elected German king in 1314 and crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328.

His attempts to follow his father as King of the Romans failed with the election of Louis IV of Wittelsbach in 1314.

Louis IV ( German: Ludwig ) ( 1 April 1282, Munich – 11 October 1347 ), called the Bavarian, of the house of Wittelsbach, was the King of Germany ( King of the Romans ) from 1314, the King of Italy from 1327 and the Holy Roman Emperor from 1328.

The family provided two Holy Roman Emperors: Louis IV ( 1314 – 1347 ) and Charles VII ( 1742 – 1745 ), both members of the Bavarian branch of the family, and one German King with Rupert of the Palatinate ( 1400 – 1410 ), a member of the Palatinate branch.

Charles married his first wife, Blanche of Burgundy, the daughter of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy in 1308, but Blanche was caught up in the Tour de Nesle scandals of 1314 and imprisoned.

Then followed the rapid succession of the last Direct Capetian kings of France between 1314 and 1328, the three sons of Philip IV.

After Louis IV ( 1314 – 47 ) had defeated his rival Frederick, Duke of Austria, at the battle of Mühldorf ( 18 September 1322 ), and had invaded Lombardy to further the cause of the Ghibelline Visconti, John XXII ordered the whole question of right to the German throne to be brought before the papal tribunal and, on 8 October 1323, began canonical proceedings against Louis.

In 1314, Duke Louis IV of Bavaria ( who would become Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor ) and Frederick the Handsome, a Habsburg prince, each claimed the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor.

Joan was implicated in Queen Margaret's adultery case during 1314 ; Margaret was accused and convicted of adultery with two knights, upon the testimony of their sister-in-law, Isabella.

Princess Joan, the remaining daughter of Louis X by the late Queen Margaret, was one obvious candidate, but suspicion still hung over her as a result of the scandal in 1314, including concerns over her actual parentage.

When Elizabeth's only brother Gilbert, 7th Earl of Hertford was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 aged only 23 and leaving no surviving issue, his property was equally divided between his three full sisters, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Margaret.

Following the death of their brother, Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, Margaret and her sisters, Elizabeth and Eleanor de Clare received a share of the inheritance.

He married Margaret de Clare, ( daughter of the Earl of Hertford who was also 3rd Earl of Gloucester ( a 1218 creation, extinct in 1314 )).

In 1305, Margaret married her cousin once removed, Louis X of France, King of Navarre, who in 1314 acceded to the French throne as Louis X.

Early in 1314, Margaret was allegedly caught in an act of adultery in the Tour de Nesle Affair.

In 1314, Château Gaillard was the prison of Margaret of Burgundy and Blanche of Artois, two French noblewomen ; they were locked up and had their heads shaved for committing adultery.

With her sisters, Elizabeth de Clare and Margaret de Clare, she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother, Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Gloucester at Bannockburn in 1314.

* Catherine ( 1255 / 1257 – after 1314 ), wife of King Stefan Dragutin of Serbia

The death of the young Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, at the Battle of Bannockburn ( 1314 ) entailed the break-up of the Honour of Clare, as he and his young wife were childless and the lands were distributed among three co-heiresses.

Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby ( 9 October 1267 – shortly before 25 March 1314 ) was born at North Molton, Devonshire, the only son of Roger La Zouche and his wife, Ela Longespee, daughter of Stephen Longespee and Emmeline de Ridelsford.