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1312

Henry VII crowned emperor in Rome

June 1312

The Luxembourg king rode into a Rome torn between Guelph and Ghibelline factions and took his crown at the Lateran rather than St. Peter's, because Angevin troops held the Vatican quarter. Dante hailed him as a messianic savior who might restore imperial justice to Italy. Henry died of malaria in Tuscany the following summer.

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Before: 1311: Catalan company raids the Aegean
After: April 1313: Giovanni Boccaccio born near Florence

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1311: Alauddin Khalji builds Siri Fort in Delhi
After: August 1313: Henry VII dies at Buonconvento

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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.