29 July – remainingKnights Templar in England are dispersed to do penance.[2]
16 August – Parliament presents theOrdinances of 1311 to the King (document dated 5 October; published on 11 October); these substitute the Lord Ordainers for the King as the effective government of the country.[1]
13 January – royal favouritePiers Gaveston, having returned from two months exile on the continent, is reunited, probably atKnaresborough Castle, with Edward II, who on 18 January restores all Gaveston's confiscated lands to him. Edward moves his court toYork and prepares to fight rebellious barons.[1]
c. March – the barons, meeting in London, where Gaveston is excommunicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, plan to capture Gaveston and prevent him from fleeing to Scotland.[4]
4 May – Edward, Isabella and Gaveston are atNewcastle upon Tyne, pursued byThomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and his followers. The royal party flee by ship and land atScarborough, where Gaveston (with some royal treasure) stays while Edward and Isabella return to York.[4]
19 May – After a 2-week siege ofScarborough Castle, Gaveston surrenders to the earls of Pembroke andSurrey, on the promise that he would not be harmed.[4]
19 June – Lancaster orders the execution of Gaveston, which is carried out in Warwickshire.[1]
22 December – Lancaster and his supporters refuse an offer of pardon from Edward II.[1]
Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce raid as far asDurham.[1]
28 May –Thomas Cobham elected to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
1 October –Pope Clement V dismisses the election of Thomas Cobham to the Archbishopric of Canterbury having been petitioned to do so by King Edward II.Walter Reynolds enthroned as theArchbishop.
October – Edward II pardons rebellious barons after they publicly apologise.[1]
Robert the Bruce retakes theIsle of Man from the English.[5]
9 August –Treaty of Leake between Edward II and Earl of Lancaster, agreeing on control of administration.[1]
14 October – Anglo-Irish forces defeat a Scots-Irish army at theBattle of Faughart inIreland.Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, is killed in the battle.[5]
^Nicholson, Helen J. (2009).The Knights Templar on Trial: The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308-11. Stroud: The History Press. pp. 186–7.ISBN978-0-7509-4681-0.
