Timeline June 1441

Events in June 1441 3

• 1394 – 1441 Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394-1441) Died 24 June 1441, aged 47 Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, ruling Japan from 1429. Known for his harsh, centralizing rule, he was assassinated by the daimyo Akamatsu Mitsusuke at a banquet in the Kakitsu Incident.
• 1441 Eleanor Cobham accused of treasonable sorcery Witchcraft trial implicates the Duchess of Gloucester in England In the summer of 1441 the cleric Roger Bolingbroke and the astrologer Thomas Southwell were arrested and accused of using sorcery to predict the death of Henry VI, implicating Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester. Eleanor was tried for treasonable necromancy, her marriage to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester was annulled, and she was sentenced to life imprisonment, badly damaging her husband's political standing.
• 1441 Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori assassinated at a banquet Akamatsu Mitsusuke's killing of the shogun triggers the Kakitsu War On 24 June 1441 the daimyo Akamatsu Mitsusuke assassinated the sixth Ashikaga shogun, Yoshinori, during a banquet celebrating a military victory, in an episode known as the Kakitsu Incident. The shogunate's forces, led by the Yamana clan, hunted down Akamatsu, who took his own life at Kinoyama Castle in September 1441 after his clan's defeat.