* 1342 – Catherine of Bohemia ( d. 1395 )

* 1404 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy ( b. 1342 )

* 1342 – Pope Benedict XII ( b. 1285 )

* Pope Clement VI ( 1291 – 1352, r. 1342 – 52 )

The reign of Louis the Great ( 1342 – 1382 ) is considered the golden age of Croatian medieval history.

** Charles I ( 1310 – 1342 )

** Louis I ( 1342 – 1382 )

* Pelka ( 1342 – 1365 ).

* Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine ( Ninfale d ' Ameto, 1341 – 1342 )

* 1342 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1404 )

* 1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon ( b. 1279 )

The first extends from popes Benedict XII ( 1334 – 1342 ) to Martin V ( 1417 – 1431 ), or in one manuscript to Eugene IV ( 1431 – 1447 ).

* Napoleone Orsini Frangipani ( 1263 – 1342 ), Italian cardinal

* 1342 – Julian of Norwich, English saint ( d. 1416 )

* Charles I of Hungary ( 1288 – 1342 ) military, diplomatic and financial reformer, restoring the Kingdom of Hungary to power.

* Louis the Great of Hungary ( king: ( 1342 – 1382 ) King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem, Sicily and Poland from 1370.

* September 16 – Avignon Pope Clement VII ( b. 1342 )

* Pope Benedict XII: 1334 – 1342

* Pope Clement VI: 1342 – 1352

* Pope Benedict XII: 1334 – 1342

* Pope Clement VI: 1342 – 1352

* January 16 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford ( b. 1342 )

* Nicholas I ( Croatian: Nikola, Hungarian: Miklós ) Lacković, Ban of Slavonia ( 1342 – 43 ), Voivode of Transylvania ( 1367 – 1369 ).

Born in 1342, Philip gained his cognomen the Bold when, at the age of 14, he fought beside and was captured with his father at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.

Although dissatisfied with his return to Florence, Boccaccio continued to work, producing Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine ( also known as Ameto ) a mix of prose and poems, in 1341, completing the fifty canto allegorical poem Amorosa visione in 1342, and Fiammetta in 1343.

This event, along with another town fire in 1342, the Black Death in 1349, 1356 and 1365, but above all the rise of the Territorial Princes, led to a gradual decline.

After Michael of Cesena's death in 1342, William became the leader of the small band of Franciscan dissidents living in exile with Louis IV.

In 1342 Louis also acquired Tyrol for the Wittelsbach by voiding the first marriage of Margarete Maultasch with John Henry of Bohemia and marrying her to his own son Louis V, thus alienating the house of Luxemburg even more.

He was cremated as a part of a fully pagan ceremony in 1342, which included a human sacrifice, with favourite servant and several German slaves being burned on the pyre with the corpse.

In 1340 and 1342 he again tried to negotiate peace with the Scots, but afterward left public politics to care for his diocese and accumulate a library.

At the beginning of 1364, after the failure of the negotiations of Évran, Montfort, with the assistance of John Chandos, came to attack Auray, which had been in the hands of Franco-Bretons since 1342.

When Margaret, Countess of Tyrol married the Bavarian, Duke Louis V the Brandenburger, in 1342, Kitzbühel was temporarily united with the County of Tyrol ( that in turn became a Bavarian dominion as a result of the marriage until Louis ' death ).

In the 14th Century ( estimated around 1342 ) the quadrille evolved more and more in an intricate dance, with its foundation in dances like cotillions.

Two Birmingham merchants represented Warwickshire at the council held in York in 1322 to discuss the standardisation of wool staples, and others attended the Westminster wool merchants assemblies of 1340, 1342 and 1343, a period when at least one Birmingham merchant was trading considerable amounts of wool with continental Europe.

Though released on parole in September, it was not until May 1342 that he reached a final settlement with the French.

Like other Florentine bankers and companies having difficulty with bankruptcy at the time, in September 1342 they supported the move to invite Walter VI of Brienne to become the next signor of Florence.

This first alliance was followed in 1311 by an alliance with Fribourg, a 1334 alliance with Solothurn, 1342 with Murten and 1395 with La Neuveville.

In 1342 following this marriage Walter settled the manors of Alveston and Erdecote and the hundred of " Langele " on himself and his wife for their joint lives and the life of the survivor of them, with remainder to their joint issue, and in default of such issue with remainder to Peter Corbet of Syston and his heirs.

The Christ Church manuscript says that Higden wrote it down to the year 1342 ; the fine manuscript at Christ's College, Cambridge, states that he wrote to the year 1344, after which date, with the omission of two years, John of Malvern, a monk of Worcester, carried the history on to 1357, at which date it ends.

Summer 1342 he was together with the Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu given command of the covering force protecting France from attacks from the north while king Philip VI campaigned in Brittany.

The keep was built by Pierre IV of La Garnache, then an enclosure equipped with towers was built around the lower courtyard. The castle resisted numerous attacks from the English in 1342 and 1360, and again in 1386 under the command of the Earl of Arundel

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