Timeline 1230 - 1347

Timeline: 

1231: Pope Gregory IX raises a permanent tribunal with ecclesiastical judges overseeing all matters concerning heresy. Making it the first independant institution wholly devoted to this subject and the punishment of it. Not much attention is paid to it, as it’s not deemed important. The mandate of the tribunal is to only punish and seek out heretic Catholics. Non-catholics were not to be touched. Shortly after, the second in command of the papal delegate overseeing the Albigensian crusade, is exposed as a Cathar, and executed; After this great victory, the Algibensian crusade sees a last very bloody year, ending soon after. If not for tremendous local support, it was feared that this would would have dragged on for another two decades. 

1233: A papal bull describes a common heretic as an “ice-cold pale mane”, who extracts the faith in the Church with his kiss. Vampires grow concerned. 

1234 Prussian pagans are defeated in a final battle, the Teutons receive their land from the Pope. With all of “civilized” europe Christian, the tribunal founded by Pope Gregory IX starts launching final oppressions of any known actors against the church. They have an eye on outliers in Norway, Iceland and Sweden. 

1235: No more word is heard from barbarians assaulting the Europe from the Eurasian steppes, and the borders grow eerily quiet. Later it is confirmed that they have been swallowed up by the Mongol hordes from the East. 

1236: Once the last of the Papal inquisitorial armies have left, Queen Esclarmonde the Black rejoins the courts of Love of France, and pledges loyalty to Saliana, the Mother Queen of the Courts of Love. The Ventrue Alexander seems unhappy about the situation, and disappears, never to be seen again. 

1238 Kiev is utterly destroyed by the Mongols, catching the courts of Europe by surprise. 

1239 Vampiric doomsayers call this the Year of Gehenna, when the world will end. Nothing happens, and thus the Cainite Heresy quietly disappears into history. 

1240: the Ioveanus family announce to vampiric society that they will henceforth be known as the Giovanni bloodline, of the Cappadocians, those that share their blood, no longer show the deathly pallor of their parent clan, but their bite only inflicts pain while feeding. 

1242 Word reaches them that Ogadei Khan has died. They turn back to Mongolia. Before leaving, They reach as far as Croatia. 

1248: The Reconquista starts making large gains, Seville, Capital of the Almohad Empire, falls to Castille. 

1250: The first attention is drawn to the Heresy Tribunal of the Church, as they uncover and destroy a prominent elder after a very swift and efficient investigations. Calls come for increased enforcement of the ‘Masquerade’. The heresy Tribunal is given the official name of Papal Inquisition. 

1258: Pope Alexander IV forbids the Inquisition from investigatig charges of witchcraft. They are told to keep to their mandate and focus on heretics. 

1260: The Mamelule Baybars I become Sultan of Egypt and begins a purge against “Idolators”, making it hard for any that harken to old religion, like the Followers of Set, some Assamites, and others that remained, like the Istharites. 

1261: Byzantium is reconquered by the Byzantines, end of the Latin Empire. 

1265: Inquisition expands to Hungary. Small Schism inside the inquisition concerning the tortures, those who oppose, leave, many are excommunicated or declared heretical and submitted to the tortures they opposed. 

1267: An almost civil war breaks out amongst the Artisan guilds of London. The militia is used to put down the unrest. After many dead, the guilds are forced to sign several agreements. 

1277: Venice develops glass working. 

1278: A golden weapon too heavy to bear by a single man, with sharpness enough to slice an anvil, has been found. It’s origins have been kept secret, and it has been brought to the Vatican for safekeeping. Rumors are it is the fallen blade of an angel. 

1280: Slow acceptance of Clan Tremere into Cainite society. They are pitched against Clan Salubri whom they supposedly killed to gain power. Only a few Salubri remain. 

1282: Battle the Guelphs and Ghibellines continues. Battle of Forli is witness and described by Dante Alighieri. 

1284: Wales falls under full English control 

1291: The final common sightings of the Clan of Healers, the Salubri, happen in this year. A great conclave was said to have happened. The outcome is unknown, and sightings after this year become rare if not unknown. They slowly fade away into history. Fall of Acre, the last of the Crusader Kingdoms, generally seen as the end of the Crusades to the Holy Land. 

1299: The Inquisition reveals the reason for its presence in Hungary. Officially, the last Dragon has been slain. This is in late december 

1300: At the turning of the century. The stars dim. Those attuned to magic claim it felt as if magic began disappating from the world. Oracles claim an Age is Ending. First sign of actual thinblooded Vampires appearing. There appears be no tie to clan or generation. These thinblooded are uncapable of mastering more than two disciplines of their parent clan, and often do not show any sign of parentage even, finding it as easy to learn other disciplines, nor do they have the drawbacks of their original clans. The resemble the clanless from ages past, and are thus dubbed, the Caitiff, the clanless. 1300 end of the warm periode of 1100 to 1300 

1303: Pope Boniface VIII is kidnapped by Philip IV and held hostage in Avignon. The local people quickly break the Pope free. Shortly after returning to Rome, the Pope dies. 

1307: King Philip of France orders the arrest of the Templars and the seizure of their houses and goods. 

1308: Knights Templar are effectively destroyed. A few are said to have escaped and in hiding with most of the lore and riches. 

1309: The new Pope, Clement V, a frenchman,moves the papal court to Avignon. 

1314: Jaques de Molay, Last Grand Master of the Kinghts Templar, is burned at the stake. He calls upon King Philip and the Pope to meet him at the throne of God inside the year. Both die shortly thereafter. Dante finishes Divine Comedy. 

1315 sky darkens, there is no summer this year. Omens speak of great fire darkening the sky with its smoke. 

1315-1317: the great famine as a consequence of the darkening of the sky, and the subsequent cooling, combined with the end of the warm period. Foodproduction won’t recover until 1325, estimated to have killed 10-25% of the population of many cities and towns 1310-20’s biggest badweather of scandinavia of medieval period. 

1320: John XXII, expands the Papal Inquisition’s mandate, adding pagans, mainly those worshipping “goddess” figures, igniting a new series of witch trials. A pagan Kingdom had been founded in the Black Forest in the Holy Roman empire, and is destroyed in this year, supposedly putting all of its inhabitants to the pyre.  

1324: The Siege of Metz, one of the first recorded uses of Cannons in history. 

1325: The Carpathians are rocked with fighting between mages and Clan Tremere. The final bloody battled point to no victor, and an unofficial cease fire starts. End of the Massasa War. 

1326: The pronouncement forbidding the Papal Inquisition from investigating witchcraft is overturned. 

1328: The Fae speak of the weakening of magical bound oaths. The spoken word no longer carries the same weight it had in the past. 

1330: A purge happens amongst the faculty and students for those of low moral standards. Some die in the fighting that ensues. 

1331: Discontent among common vampires in the cainite courts in Europe, as the first egregious examples come forward of sires willfully throwing their childer into the hands of Inquisitors, so they may escape. 

1337: Start of the Hundred years war. France and England have had the necessary entanglements the last century, but this is the first fully blown war. 

1342: Jadviga Almanov of Bohemia, found the University of Chalter, and retreats from vampiric life, giving up her title. 

1346: defeat of the French by the English at Crécy, which marks the rise of the longbow as a dominant weapon in Europe.