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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: 1311 births, 1311 deaths, 1311 establishments, 1311 in Europe, 1311 in law, Conflicts in 1311, Alfonso XI of Castile, Ordinances of 1311, Kulug Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan, Antony Bek, Qotb al-Din Shirazi, Greyfriars' Church, Reading, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Liu Ji, Margaret II, Countess of Hainault, Council of Vienne, Margaret de Bohun, 2nd Countess of Devon, James II of Majorca, Pillai Lokacharya, Amade Aba, Margaret of Brabant, Botulf Botulfsson, Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, Battle of Halmyros, David VIII of Georgia, Ralph de Hengham, Thamar Angelina Komnene, Margaret of Artois, Eudoxia Laskarina, Walter V, Count of Brienne, Jordan of Pisa, Hkun Law, Pietro Gradenigo, Rebellion of wojt Albert, List of state leaders in 1311, Xamar-Gale, Munenaga, H j Sadatoki, Robert De Coucy, Siegfried von Feuchtwangen, Albert Pallavicini, Marco Venier, Lord of Cerigo, Leonardo Patrasso, Philippa of Luxembourg, Guy of Namur, Guillaume Arrufat, Bertrand des Bordes, H j Morotoki. Excerpt: The Ordinances of 1311 were a series of regulations imposed upon King Edward II by the peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England to restrict the power of the king. The twenty-one signatories of the Ordinances are referred to as the Lords Ordainers, or simply the Ordainers. English setbacks in the Scottish war, combined with perceived extortionate royal fiscal policies, set the background for the writing of the Ordinances in which the administrative prerogatives of the king were largely appropriated by a baronial council. The Ordinances reflect the Provisions of Oxford and the Provisions of Westminster from the late 1250s, but unlike the Provisions, the Ordinances featured a new concern with fiscal reform, specifically redirecting revenues from the king's household to the exchequer. Just as instrumental to their conception were other...
