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TDIH - January 15




This Day in (Medieval) History: January 15





570 - Death of Saint Ita of Killeedy (Ite ingen Chinn Fhalad).



708 - Sisinnius (c. 650 – 4 February 708) was consecrated as Pope, but reigned less than a month before his death.



936 - Death of King Rodulfus of France (c. 890 – 15 January 936) of disease.



946 - Abdallah ibn al-Mustaqfi (Abbasid Caliph at Baghdad) was deposed after being blinded, as his predecessor had been.



1208 - Death of Peter of Castelnau.



1345 - Death of Martin Zaccaria.



1346 - Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria granted Holland and Zealand to his wife Margaretha.



1432 - Birth of the future King Afonso V of Portugal (reigned 1438-1481) at Sintra Palace.



1507 - Birth of Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher at Basel in modern-day Switzerland.



1535 - Henry VIII established himself as the head of his new Church of England after the Pope refused to allow him to divorce his wife.