This Year: 1304: Petrarch and Stirling Castle

Hello and Welcome to This Year, a YouTube and Blog series with interesting information about each year between 1300 and 2020.

1304

This year, in 1304, Edward the First besieged and took 

Stirling castle, the last stronghold of resistance to English rule.  Also,

 Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) was born.

This has been This Year: 1304.

Credits:

Picture of Edward I from Cassell's History of England - Century Edition, 1902
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EdwardI-Cassell.jpg

Notre Dame Cathedral interior

https://mywowo.net/en/france/paris/notre-dame/interior

Schola Antiqua, Gradual Chant  "Universi qui te expectant," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gradual_chant_-_Universi_qui_te_expectant.ogg.

Slezer, John "Stirling Castle," 1693

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stirling_Castle_John_Slezer.jpg

Unknown artist "Francesco Petrarca," Unknown Year

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Petrarca00.jpg