TDIH - January 24 This Day in (Medieval) History: January 24 1473 – Death of Conrad Paumann, German organist and composer (b. 1410) 817 – Death of Pope Stephen IV (b. 770) 914 – The Fatimid Caliphate of Ifriqiya began an invasion of Egypt led by general Habasa ibn Yusuf against the Abbasid Caliphate. 1046 – Death of Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen. 1125 – Death of David IV of Georgia. 1287 – Birth of Richard de Bury, bishop and Lord Chancellor of England. 1336 – Death of King Alfonso IV of Aragon. 1376 – Death of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, English commander during the Hundred Years War. 1438 – A group of dissident clergy who refused Pope Eugenius IV's order to disband the Council of Basel (including the former judge who convicted Joan of Arc) voted to replace Pope Eugenius IV with the former Duke of Savoy, Amadeus VIII, who adopted the Papal name Felix V. This reignited the Schism in the Catholic Church. Eugenius IV refused to step down. 1444 – Birth of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, who later became Duke of Milan. 1458 – Matthias Corvinus was elected King of Hungary.