Hanazono, as the 95th emperor of Japan (until 1348). By topic Cities and Towns March 8 – King Denis I (the Poet King) grants Póvoa de Varzim a charter, the Foral, giving royal lands to 54 families, who found a municipality known as Póvoa around Praça Velha. Literature Dante Alighieri begins work on his Divine Comedy, comprising Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is one of the most influential works of the European Middle Ages (approximate date). </onlyinclude> Births August 12 – Moriyoshi, Japanese nobleman and prince (d. 1335) Andrea Orcagna, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1368) Gaston II, French nobleman and knight (House of Foix) (d. 1343) Joan III of Burgundy, French noblewoman and princess (d. 1347) Joguk (or Borjigin Jintong), queen consort of Goryeo (d. 1325) Longchenpa, Tibetan Buddhist scholar-yogi (d. 1364) Deaths January 30 – Margaret of Tyre, Outremer noblewoman (b. 1244) February 1 – Herman I (the Tall), German nobleman (b. 1275) March 18 – Yuri I of Galicia, king of Ruthenia (House of Rurik) April 5 Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian nobleman and palatine (b. 1245) Reginald de Grey, English nobleman and knight (b. 1240) May 1 – Albert I, German nobleman, pretender and king (b. 1255) May 22 – Amadeus II, Burgundian nobleman (House of Geneva) July 4 – Eberhard I, German nobleman (House of La Marck) July 28 – Abu Thabit 'Amir, Marinid ruler of Morocco (b. 1284) July 30 – Chungnyeol, Korean ruler (House of Wang) (b. 1236) August 12 – Edmund Stafford, English nobleman and Peerage August 18 – Clare of Montefalco, Italian nun and abbess (b. 1268) September 4 – Margaret of Burgundy, queen of Sicily (b. 1250) September 10 – Go-Nijō (or Nijō II), Japanese emperor (b. 1285) October 5 – Guy II, Latin nobleman (House de la Roche) (b. 1280) October 10 – Patrick IV (de Dunbar), Scottish nobleman (b. 1242) November 8 – John Duns Scotus, Scottish priest and philosopher December 16 – Tran Nhan Tong, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1258) December 21 – Henry I (the Child), German nobleman (b. 1244) References