…the antipope moves on to Grosseto and…

The forces of Andronikos fight and lose a battle at Pelekanon (near Nicomedia) against Orhan in 1329.

German monk and mystic, Heinrich Suso, or Seuse, who had studied under the famous mystic Meister Eckhart at Cologne, writes, in about 1329.

“The Little Book of Truth,” a defense of Eckhart, for which he is rebuked by his superiors and deprived of his teaching position at Constance.

He then becomes an itinerant preacher, traveling widely in Switzerland.

Levi ben Gershon (also called Gersonides and Ralbag), a French-born Jewish astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher, produces controversial commentary on Aristotelian philosophy, the Bible, and parts of the Talmud.

Levi, an adherent of the Averroist school in his interpretations and commentaries on Aristotle, discusses many of the critical philosophic problems of his time in his major philosophic work, Milhamot Adonai (“The Wars of the Lord”), written in 1329, when the author is forty-one.

When grappling with an unresolvable contradiction between Aristotle and the Bible, Levi endeavors to accommodate biblical ideas to those of Aristotle, unlike Maimonides, who accepted the biblical word as primary.

This creates opposition for Levi, who falls under suspicion of heresy.

Bergamo, located in the southern foothills of the Alps, ruled in turn by Gauls, Romans, Lombard dukes, and achieving the status of free commune in the twelfth century; is ruled by the Visconti of Milan from 1329.

Limerick, made a shire of Munster in the early thirteenth century, comes under control of the earls of Desmond in 1329.

Robert the Bruce dies at fifty-four on June 7, 1329, and is succeeded by his five-year-old son, whose official coronation as David II will take place in 1331.

Ghibelline leader Can Grande della Scala, the chief lord of the mercantile Scala family of Verona and Vicenza, has conquered many cities, including Padua, …

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Cangrande succeeds in obtaining the title of Imperial Vicar of Mantua from the Emperor, intending to move against the ruling Gonzaga family in that city.

These plans are put on hold however as a change of government at Treviso has produced a number of powerful exiles willing to help him conquer the city in exchange for their reinstatement.

On July 2, 1329 Cangrande leaves Verona for the last time and within a few days his large army is laying siege to Treviso.

Running quickly low on supplies and bereft of external help, the city's overlord Guecello Tempesta surrenders the city to Cangrande.

Cangrande makes his state entry to Treviso on July 18, the crowning moment in his long struggle to subdue the cities of the Trevisan Mark.

However, his triumph is marred, for he has become seriously ill as the result, according to contemporary accounts, of drinking from a polluted spring a few days before.

As soon as he arrives at his lodgings he takes to his bed and on the morning of July 22, 1329, after settling his affairs as best he can, he dies.

Cangrande's body is taken out of Treviso at nightfall and drawn on a bier to …