1297
Year 1297 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–December
Sanremo is sold to the Doria and De Mari Families.Births
March 25* Arnošt of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague * Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor August 14 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan date unknown* Joseph Caspi, Provençal grammarian * Charles II, Count of Alençon 1325-1346, Count of Joigny 1335-1336 * Kęstutis, Grand Prince of Lithuania * Louis of Burgundy, King of Thessalonica * Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell probable* Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco * Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell, sister-in-law of King Edward II of England and mother-in-law of Edward, the Black PrinceDeaths
January 23 - Florent of Hainaut, Prince of Achaea February 22 - Saint Margaret of Cortona March - Patriarch John XI of Constantinople May 18 - Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury August 13 - Nawrūz, Mongol emir August 14 - Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg August 16 - John II, Emperor of Trebizond August 19 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop August 20 - William Fraser, bishop and Guardian of Scotland September - Andrew Moray, Scottish resistance leader September 11 - Hugh de Cressingham, English Treasurer December 28 - Hugh Aycelin, French cardinal date unknown* Ronald Crawford, Scottish clan chief * Guido I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna* Marianus II of Arborea, Judge of Arborea probable - Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus
