* 1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.

First the Ottomans won at 1371 on the Maritsa River — where the Serb forces were led by the King Vukasin Mrnjavcevic, the father of Prince Marko and the co-ruler of the last emperor from the Serbian Nemanjic dynasty.

In particular, a Serb expedition to expel the Turks from Adrianople led by the Serbian brothers King Vukašin and Despot Uglješa, was defeated on September 26, 1371, by Murad's Murat capable second lieutenant Lala Şâhin Paşa, the first governor ( beylerbey ) of Rumeli.

Mary was born in 1371 to King Louis the Great and his second wife, Elizabeth of Bosnia, and was the older of the two daughters of Louis and Elizabeth to survive childhood.

* David II of Scotland ( 1324 – 1371 ) King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce by his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh ( d. 1327 ), was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife.

* March 5 – King David II of Scotland ( d. 1371 )

On his marriage to Infanta Constance of Castile in 1371, John assumed ( officially from 29 January 1372 ) the title of King of Castile and León in right of his wife, and insisted his fellow English nobles henceforth address him as ' my lord of Spain.

* King David II in 1371

* David II of Scotland ( 1324 – 1371 ), David Bruce, King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce

Robert II ( early 1316 – 19 April 1390 ) became King of Scots in 1371 as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.

His father became king in 1371 after the unexpected death of the childless King David.

David II ( Medieval Gaelic: Daibhidh a Briuis, Modern Gaelic: Dàibhidh Bruis ; Norman French: Dauid de Brus ; 5 March 1324 – 22 February 1371 ) was King of Scots from 7 June 1329 until his death.

In late 1370 or early 1371, Vukašin crowned Marko Young King.

Her father first remarried in 1371 to Infanta Constance of Castile, daughter of King Peter of Castile.

During the reign of their infirm father as King Robert II ( 1371 – 1390 ), Robert Stewart and his older brother Lord Carrick functioned as Regents of Scotland, Kings in all but name, with Albany serving as High Chamberlain of Scotland.

First the Ottomans won at 1371 on the Maritsa River — where the Serb forces were led by the King Vukasin Mrnjavcevic, the father of Prince Marko and the co-ruler of the last emperor from the Serbian Nemanjic dynasty.

Jeanne d ' Évreux ( 1310 – 4 March 1371 ) was the third wife of King Charles IV of France, daughter of his uncle Louis d ' Évreux and Margaret of Artois.

In 1371 her only daughter Joan was engaged with John, eldest son and heir of King Peter IV of Aragon ; however, she died during the journey to Aragon for her marriage on 16 September 1371 in Béziers.

In 1390 King Robert II ( reigned 1371 – 1390 ) granted the castle to Sir Henry Douglas, the husband of his niece Marjory.

According to Mavro Orbini ( 1607 ), it was used by King Vukašin ( 1365 – 1371 ) and Tsar Lazar ( 1371 – 1389 ).

After David II's death, Robert II, the first of the Stewart kings, came to the throne in 1371.

The Earldom of Carrick merged into the crown of Scotland with the accession in 1306 of the Earl of Carrick, Robert the Bruce, who transferred the title to his son David in 1328 ( the title became automatically subsidiary to the Dukedom of Rothesay in 1469 ); the High Stewardship merged into the crown with the accession of Robert, 7th High Steward of Scotland as Robert III in 1371 ; the Dukedom of Rothesay was created by Robert III of Scotland for his son David in 1398.

David's Tower was begun around 1367, and was incomplete when David died at the castle in 1371, being completed by his successor, Robert II, in the 1370s.

This was rejected and Robert succeeded to the throne at the age of 55 following David's unexpected death in 1371.

David was buried at Holyrood Abbey almost immediately but an armed protest by William, Earl of Douglas delayed Robert II's coronation until 26 March 1371.

In June 1371 Robert agreed to a defensive treaty with the French, and although there were no outright hostilities during 1372, the English garrisons were reinforced and placed under an increased state of vigilance.

" Donaldson goes further and debates the legality of the canon law marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Mure following the papal dispensation but acknowledges that the acts of succession in 1371 and 1372 although sealing the matter in the eyes of Parliament did not end the generational feud of the descendants of Elizabeth Mure and of those of Euphemia Ross.

Michael Lynch points out that Robert II's reign from 1371 until the lieutenancy of Carrick in 1384 had been one exemplified by continued prosperity and stability and which Abbot Bower described as a period of " tranquility, prosperity and peace ".

Robert was crowned at Scone Abbey on 27 March 1371 and before this date had given John — now styled Steward of Scotland — the ancestral lands surrounding the Firth of Clyde.

In the later books, down to the reign of Robert I ( 1371 ), he was aided by Fordun's Gesta Annalia, but from that point to the close the work is original and of contemporary importance, especially for James I, with whose death it ends.

After the death of David II in 1371, Barbour served in the royal court of Robert II in a number of capacities.

His successors were again clerics until the appointment of Robert Thorpe in 1371, probably due to pressure from Parliament.

Under the early Stewart kings Robert II ( reigned 1371 – 1390 ) and Robert III ( reigned 1390 – 1406 ), the earliest surviving parts of the castle were built.

The seventh Great Steward, Robert, ascended the Scots throne as Robert II in 1371.

The death of Robert I in 1329 left Scotland with a four-year-old king, David II ( 1329 – 1371 ).

* February 2 – Joan II of Naples, Queen of Naples ( b. 1371 )

When the majority of the Castilian nobles refused to accept a Portuguese sovereign, and welcomed the former king's illegitimate half-brother as Henry II of Castile, Ferdinand allied himself with the Moors and Aragonese ; but in 1371 Pope Gregory XI intervened, and it was decided that Ferdinand should renounce his claim and marry Eleanor, the daughter of his successful rival.

After the Wassenberg line became extinct in 1371 following the deaths of Reginald II's childless sons Edward II ( on 24 August, from wounds suffered in the Battle of Baesweiler ) and Reginald III ( on 4 December ), the ensuing Guelders War of Succession saw William I of Jülich emerge victorious.

* Arnold II van Hoorn ( 1371 – 1379 )

On 22 February 1371 David II ( who was preparing to marry the earl of March's sister, Agnes Dunbar ) unexpectedly died, presumably to the relief of both John and his father.

David II died unexpectedly and at the height of his power in Edinburgh Castle on 22 February 1371.

David II visited it towards the end of his reign in 1371.

Noted accordingly in the records of the Scottish parliament, held at Scone 26 March 1371, at the coronation of Robert II, William de Seton is named among the " Nobiles Barones ", as " Dominus de Seton ".

* David II of Scotland ( 1324 – 1371 )