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The Japanese emperor Godaigo tries to regain power from the country's feeble-minded regent Tatatoki Hojo, who occupies himself mainly with drinking and dogfights. Now 36, Godaigo is betrayed by an informer but denies everything (see 1331).
Irish authorities accuse housewife Alice Kyteler of witchcraft (see 785). Her first three husbands have died under allegedly mysterious circumstances, leaving their entire estates to her and her son, William Outlawe, thus enraging their other potential heirs. Her fourth is "afflicted with a wasting disease." One of her servant women swears that Kyteler is a witch and that she, herself, has participated in satanic rites on orders from her mistress; Kyteler is excommunicated, she flees to England, and her servant is burnt at the stake.
Nonfiction: Defensor Pacis by the rector of the University of Paris, Marsilius of Padua (Marsiglio dei Mainardini), 34, and Jean de Jandun is a juridical treatise against the temporal power of the pope. Addressed to Louis the Bavarian, the work is denounced by the Vatican, Marsilius will be forced to flee Paris in 1326, Pope John XXII will condemn and excommunicate him in 1327, but Marsilius will help Louis of Bavaria conquer Rome in 1328 and enjoy imperial protection until his death in 1343.
Sugar is imported for the first time into Denmark (see England, 1319; Sweden, 1390).
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