1280s in England
England-related events during the 1280s
Events from the 1280s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch – Edward I
Events
1280
University College, Oxford receives statutes.
1281
Establishment of Rewley Abbey, Oxford, and Appleby Friary.
The Council of Lambeth issues the decree Ignorantia sacerdotum lays down the duties of parish priests to teach the laity in religious matters.
1282
21 March – Dafydd ap Gruffydd leads rebellion in Wales.
11 December – the English defeat the Welsh at the Battle of Orewin Bridge.
First Trial of the Pyx, a procedure for measuring the standard of minted coins, held.
1283
25 April – the last independent Welsh stronghold, Castell y Bere, falls to the English.
28 June – a parliament of England summoned to assemble at Shrewsbury Abbey to decide the fate of the captured Dafydd ap Gruffydd is the first to include commoners.
3 October – the last ruler of an independent Wales, Prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd, is executed in Shrewsbury, the first prominent person in history to be hanged, drawn and quartered (for the newly created crime of high treason).
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