Timeline January 1343

Events in January 1343 4

• 1277 – 1343 Robert of Naples (1277-1343) Died 20 January 1343, aged 65 Robert the Wise, King of Naples, died in Naples after a reign of over three decades marked by patronage of the arts and learning. He hosted and supported the poet Petrarch and was widely regarded as the most learned monarch of his age. He was succeeded by his granddaughter Joanna I.
• 1343 Truce of Malestroit Temporary halt in the Hundred Years' War Edward III of England and Philip VI of France agreed a truce at Malestroit in Brittany, suspending open warfare in the early phase of the Hundred Years' War and the Breton War of Succession. The truce was meant to last three years but broke down before its term expired.
• 1343 Joanna I becomes Queen of Naples Succession following the death of Robert the Wise On the death of her grandfather Robert the Wise, the sixteen-year-old Joanna I succeeded as ruling Queen of Naples, one of the few women to rule a medieval European kingdom in her own right. Her reign would later be overshadowed by the murder of her husband Andrew of Hungary.
• 1343 Papal bull Unigenitus Dei Filius issued Clement VI formalizes the doctrine of the treasury of merit Pope Clement VI issued the bull Unigenitus Dei Filius, articulating the doctrine of the treasury of merit that underpinned the Church's theology of indulgences. The bull also proclaimed a jubilee to be held in 1350, later moved earlier to 1350 from the traditional centenary.