on August 23. Wallace is hanged, drawn and quartered – strangled by hanging – but cut down while still alive, emasculated, disemboweled (with his bowels burned before him), beheaded, and then cut into four parts. Wallace's head is placed on a spike above the London Bridge, and his limbs are displayed separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling, and Perth. September – King Edward I (Longshanks) issues ordinances for the government of Scotland. He issues the first commission of Trailbaston – which empowers him to appoint judicial commissions to punish crimes (such as homicide, theft, arson, and rape) and certain trespasses. Edward adds also conspiracy to the list of presentments. Asia December 20 – Battle of Amroha: Mongol forces (some 30,000 men) invade the Delhi Sultanate again in northern India. Sultan Alauddin Khalji dispatches a cavalry force led by Vizier Ghazi Malik, to repulse the Mongols. During the battle (somewhere in the Amroha district), the Delhi forces inflict a crushing defeat upon the invaders. Many Mongols are taken prisoner and incorporated into the Delhi army. By topic Religion June 5 – Clement V, formerly archbishop of Bordeaux, succeeds Pope Benedict XI as the 195th pope of the Catholic Church (until 1314). Births June 2 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur (or Abu Sa'id), Mongol ruler (d. 1335) August 18 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese general (shogun) (d. 1358) September 25 – Al-Mahdi Ali, Yemeni imam and politician (d. 1372) September 29 – Henry XIV, German nobleman and co-ruler (d. 1339) October 28 – Minbyauk Thihapate, Burmese ruler of Sagaing (d. 1364) November 5 – Robert Clifford, English nobleman and knight (d. 1344) Agnes of Bohemia, Bohemian princess (House of Přemyslid) (d. 1337) Arnoul d'Audrehem, French nobleman, knight and marshal (d. 1370) Elizabeth of Poland, queen consort of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1380) Gao Ming (or Gao Zecheng), Chinese poet and playwright (d. 1370) Isabella of Aragon (or Elisabeth), German queen consort (d. 1330) Khatsun Namkha Lekpa Gyaltsen, Tibetan religious leader (d. 1343) Konoe Mototsugu, Japanese nobleman (kugyō) and regent (d. 1354) Louis the Junker, German nobleman, knight and co-ruler (d. 1345) Peter of Aragon, Spanish prince (infante) and counsellor (d. 1381) Peter Thomas, French monk, archbishop and theologian (d. 1366) Philippe de Cabassoles, French bishop and papal legate (d. 1372) Shiba Takatsune, Japanese general and warlord (daimyo) (d. 1367) Thomas of Frignano, Italian cardinal and Minister General (d. 1381) Yi Ja-heung, Korean nobleman, official and