preachers, in an attempt to aid proselytizing to Moors. He also discovers diethyl ether. Rabban Bar Sauma, Chinese Nestorian monk, embarks on a pilgrimage from China to Jerusalem. He travels to Hotan, Kashgar, Taraz and Khorasan (modern Afghanistan). The era of the tosafot (medieval commentators on the Talmud) ends (it began in 1100). Births August 18 – Bartholomew Badlesmere, English nobleman (d. 1322) September 27 – John II (the Peaceful), Dutch nobleman (d. 1312) October 20 – Chungseon (or Wang Jang), Korean ruler (d. 1325) Andrew Horn, English scholar, chamberlain and writer (d. 1328) Aymer de Valence, Anglo-French nobleman and knight (d. 1324) Dnyaneshwar, Indian Hindu poet, philosopher and writer (d. 1296) Eleanor of Brittany, Anglo-Norman Benedictine abbess (d. 1342) Fernando de la Cerda, Spanish nobleman and prince (d. 1322) Fujiwara no Tamefuji, Japanese nobleman and poet (d. 1324) Gasan Jōseki, Japanese Sōtō Zen monk and disciple (d. 1366) Gerard of Lunel, French nobleman, monk and hermit (d. 1298) Gregory of Raska, Serbian copyist, bishop and writer (d. 1321) Gueraula de Codines, Spanish folk healer and occultist (d. 1340) Hōjō Morotoki, Japanese nobleman and regent (shikken) (d. 1311) Hugues de Bouville, French nobleman and chamberlain (d. 1331) Jón Halldórsson, Norwegian cleric, priest and bishop (d. 1339) Musō Soseki, Japanese Rinzai Zen monk and teacher (d. 1351) Peter of Zittau, Bohemian abbot, historian and writer (d. 1339) Takatsukasa Fuyuhira, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1327) William of Alnwick, English friar, bishop and theologian (d. 1333) Deaths January 6 – Raymond of Penyafort, Spanish priest (b. 1175) January 26 – Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German poet (b. 1200) February 8 – Paio Peres Correia, Portuguese Grand Master February 11 – Urania of Worms, German Jewish precentress February 26 – Margaret of England, queen of Scotland (b. 1240) March 5 – Shi Tianze, Chinese general and politician (b. 1202) March 9 – Fujiwara no Chōshi, Japanese empress (b. 1218) March 24 – Beatrice of England, countess of Richmond (b. 1242) April 13 – Eleanor of England, countess of Leicester (b. 1215) May 6 – Marie of Brienne, Latin empress and regent (b. 1224) May 21 – Cecile of Baux, Savoyan noblewoman and regent May 29 – Sophie of Thuringia, duchess of Brabant (b. 1224) June 17 – Arghun Aqa (the Elder), Mongol nobleman (b. 1210) August 15 – Lorenzo Tiepolo (or Theupolo), doge of Venice September 8 – Nuño González de Lara, Spanish nobleman