* Pedro de Gante, Franciscan missionary in Mexico ( c. 1480 – 1572 )

They included five European Franciscan missionaries, one Mexican Franciscan missionary, three Japanese Jesuits and seventeen Japanese laymen including three young boys.

* September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary ( d. 1444 )

** September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary ( d. 1444 )

* August 28 – Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary ( b. 1713 )

* 1289 – Franciscan friars begin missionary work in China.

* October 23 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary ( b. 1499 )

* November 24 – Junipero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary ( d. 1784 )

** Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary ( d. 1590 )

* May 20 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary ( b. 1380 )

* William of Rubruck, Franciscan missionary ( approximate date ; b. c. 1220 )

* Franciscan friars begin missionary work in China.

Also in 1776, Fray Francisco Garces, a Franciscan missionary, spent a week near Havasupai, unsuccessfully attempting to convert a band of Native Americans to Christianity.

* Gerónimo Boscana Christian ( Roman Catholic Franciscan ) missionary

* Antonio de Olivares Christian ( Roman Catholic Franciscan ) missionary

The San Xavier District is the location of a major tourist attraction near Tucson, Mission San Xavier del Bac, the " White Dove of the Desert ," founded in 1700 by the Jesuit missionary and explorer Eusebio Kino, with the current church building constructed by the Tohono O ' odham and Franciscan priests from 1783 to 1797.

Father Padre Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta ( June 7, 1736 – June 26, 1803 ) was a Spanish missionary to Alta California, the second presidente and founder of the California Franciscan Mission Chain.

" The Chief was given the Spanish name Francisco Solano during baptism at the Catholic Mission, and is named after the Spanish Franciscan missionary, Father Francisco Solano.

Later the same year, the Franciscan missionary Francisco Palóu founded the Mission San Francisco de Asís ( Mission Dolores ).

* 1521-Pope Leo X grants Franciscan Francis Quiñones permission and faculties to go as a missionary to the New World together with Juan Clapión

* 1525-Italian Franciscan missionary Giulio Zarco is sent to Michoacán on the western coast of Mexico where he will become very proficient in some of the indigenous languages

* 1539-The Pueblos of what is now the U. S. Southwest are encountered by Spanish Franciscan missionary Marcos de Niza

* 1585-Carmelite leader Jerome Gracian meets with Martin Ignatius de Loyola, a Franciscan missionary from China.

Louis dispatched another envoy to the Mongol court, the Franciscan William of Rubruck, who went to visit the Great Khan Möngke Khan in Mongolia.

* 1328 – William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.

The list of supposed members is immense ; among the more probable candidates are George Bubb Dodington, a fabulously corpulent man in his 60s ; William Hogarth, although hardly a gentleman, has been associated with the club after painting Dashwood as a Franciscan Friar and John Wilkes, though much later, under the pseudonym John of Aylesbury.

William of Ockham (; also Occam, Hockham, or several other spellings ; c. 1288 – c. 1348 ) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey.

William of Ockham joined the Franciscan order at an early age.

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.

* William of Ockham, English Franciscan friar and philosopher ( c. 1285 – 1347 )

* March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian

* 1285 – William of Ockham, English Franciscan to whom Occam's Razor is attributed ( approximate date ; d. 1349 )

These are customarily placed under the rubric of Ockham's razor, named after the 14th century Franciscan friar William of Ockham, who is credited with many different expressions of the maxim, not all of which have yet been found among his extant works.

Louis IV was assisted in his doctrinal dispute with the papacy by Marsilius of Padua and later by the English Franciscan friar and scholar William of Ockham.

Other important Franciscan scholastics were Duns Scotus, Peter Auriol and William of Ockham.

** William of Alnwick, Franciscan theologian ( d. 1333 )

In 1253, the Franciscan monk William of Rubruck reported numerous Europeans in Central Asia.

William Briwere also went on to found the Franciscan Bridgwater Friary in the town.

These include the Franciscan explorers Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in 1245 and William of Rubruck in 1253.

Connected with the University were not only the English College, Douai, founded by William Allen, but also the Irish and Scottish colleges and the Benedictine, Franciscan and Jesuit houses.

* William of Alnwick, ( c. 1275 – 1333 ), Franciscan Theologian and Bishop of Giovinazzo.

The Defensorium seu Correctorium corruptorii librorum Sancti Thomæ Acquinatis against the Franciscan William de la Mare of Oxford is by some attributed to him ; but this remains uncertain.

In 1866, British Captain Charles William Wilson identified the remains of the synagogue, and in 1894, Franciscan Friar Giuseppe Baldi of Naples, the Custodian of the Holy Land, was able to recover a good part of the ruins from the Bedouins.

Her Franciscan confessor, William de St. Pathus, related that on cold nights Margaret would place a robe around Louis ' shoulders, when her deeply religious husband rose to pray.

Twelve years before in 1535 a Franciscan friar named William Peyto ( Peto, Petow ), d. 1558 or 1559, had preached before the King at Greenwich “ that God's judgements were ready to fall upon his head and that dogs would lick his blood, as they had done to Ahab ”.