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John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable

John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in late medieval England's only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown)

John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in late medieval England's only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown)

Events Before

  1. Korean Confucian scholar and statesman Jeong Mong-ju is assassinated on the Sonjuk Bridge in Gaeseong (now North Korea).

    Korean Confucian scholar and statesman Jeong Mong-ju is assassinated on the Sonjuk Bridge in Gaeseong (now North Korea). A brown spot on the bridge is still said to be his blood.

  2. Assassination attempt on Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France, by Pierre de Craon fails

    Assassination attempt on Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France, by Pierre de Craon fails

  3. Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria

    Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria

  4. Ekiho exorcises the Zen temple and its surroundings of an old badger

    Ekiho exorcises the Zen temple and its surroundings of an old badger

  5. Cardinal Pedro de Luna of Aragon is chosen as Antipope Benedict XIII

    Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor (1342 – 23 May 1423), known as el Papa Luna or Pope Luna, was an Aragonese nobleman who was antipope with the regnal name Benedict XIII during the Western...

Events After

  1. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, marries 3rd wife Katherine Swynford, mother of four of his children at Lincoln Cathedr

    John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, marries 3rd wife Katherine Swynford, mother of four of his children at Lincoln Cathedral

  2. Richard II of England (31) marries Isabella of Valois (6) in a dynastic marriage

    Isabella of Valois (9 November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was Queen of England as the wife of Richard II, King of England, between 1396 and 1399, and Duchess of Orléans as the wife of Charles I, Duke...

  3. Crusade of Nicopolis: one of the last large-scale medieval crusades departs from Dijon led by the Count of Nevers, eldes

    Crusade of Nicopolis: one of the last large-scale medieval crusades departs from Dijon led by the Count of Nevers, eldest son of the Duke of Burgundy

  4. Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna

    Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna

  5. Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis

    Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis

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John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in late medieval England's only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown)

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