A Crusader garrison (some 1,000 men) defend the fortress of Ruad and after a short siege the Knights Templar surrender on September 26. Grand Master Barthélemy de Quincy, all the Templar archers and Syrian Christian troops are executed. By topic Cities and Towns June 12 – The city of Rakvere in Estonia receives Lübeck trade rights. Religion November 18 – Boniface VIII issues the papal bull Unam sanctam, which asserts the superiority of the papacy's spiritual power over secular rulers. The Temple of Confucius is erected in Beijing during the reign of Emperor Temür Khan (or Chengzong) of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty. Births November 30 – Andrew Corsini, Italian prelate and bishop (d. 1374) December 7 – Azzone Visconti, Italian nobleman and knight (d. 1339) Fang Congyi, Chinese Daoist priest and landscape painter (d. 1393) Hōjō Sadayuki, Japanese nobleman, governor and samurai (d. 1333) Konoe Tsunetada, Japanese nobleman (kugyō) and regent (d. 1352) Shihabuddeen Ahmed Koya, Indian Grand Mufti and writer (d. 1374) Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen, Tibetan ruler and politician (d. 1364) Deaths January 2 – Henry I, German nobleman and co-ruler (b. 1230) January 19 – Al-Hakim I, Abbasid ruler (caliph) of Cairo (b. 1247) January 26 – Godfrey Giffard, English Lord Chancellor and bishop February 1 – Andrea dei Conti, Italian priest and mystic (b. 1240) February 10 – Gerald Le Marescal, Irish archdeacon and bishop March 3 – Roger-Bernard III, French nobleman and knight (b. 1243) March 9 – Richard FitzAlan, English nobleman and knight (b. 1267) March 20 – Ralph Walpole, English cleric, archdeacon and bishop April 8 – Muhammad II (al-Faqih), Nasrid ruler of Granada (b. 1235) April 9 – Constance of Sicily, queen and regent of Aragon (b. 1249) May 2 – Blanche of Artois, queen and regent of Navarre (b. 1248) June 30 – Ingeborg Birgersdotter, Swedish noblewoman (b. 1253) July 11 (Battle of the Golden Spurs): Godfrey of Brabant, Dutch nobleman and knight Guy I of Clermont, French nobleman and knight Jacques de Châtillon, French governor and knight John I de Trie, French knight and trouvère (b. 1225) John I of Ponthieu, French nobleman and knight John II of Brienne, French nobleman and knight Pierre Flotte, French knight, lawyer and chancellor Raoul II of Clermont, French nobleman and knight Robert II, French nobleman and seneschal (b. 1250) Simon de Melun, French knight and Marshal (b. 1250) September 6 – John St.