Timeline August 1309

Events in August 1309 3

• 1309 Aragon besieges Almeria James II attacks the Nasrid port city King James II of Aragon besieged the Nasrid city of Almeria in 1309, coordinating with Castile's campaign against Granada. The siege failed to take the city and was lifted the following year. It was part of a broader, largely unsuccessful Christian push against the remaining Muslim kingdom in Iberia.
• 1309 Papal commission resumes hearings into the Knights Templar Investigation convened in Paris A papal commission appointed by Clement V began hearing testimony from individual Templars in Paris starting 8 August 1309, as part of the wider investigation into the order following its mass arrest in 1307. The hearings gathered evidence that would later be presented at the Council of Vienne. The Templar trial remained one of the most prominent legal proceedings of the early fourteenth century.
• 1309 Knights Hospitaller complete the conquest of Rhodes City of Rhodes surrenders to the Hospitallers After a siege lasting several years, the city of Rhodes surrendered to the Knights Hospitaller on 15 August 1309. The conquest gave the order a sovereign base in the Aegean, from which it would rule as the Hospitaller state of Rhodes for over two centuries. The island became the order's headquarters after the fall of the Crusader states in the Levant.