1302 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1302 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord

Edward I

Events

• Fulk de la Freigne becomes seneschal of the Liberty of Kilkenny.^[1]
• Alice Kyteler and her second husband, Adam le Blund, are accused of homicide. She was later the first person in Ireland to be condemned for alleged witchcraft.^[2]

Deaths

• Stephen O'Braccan, Archbishop of Cashel^[3]

Notes and References

1. Foley . Áine . Violence and authority: the sheriff and seneschal in late medieval Ireland . Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature . 2017 . 117C . 194 . 10.1353/ria.2017.0001 . 2023-07-19 . . 0035-8991 . subscription . Project MUSE.
2. Davidson, Sharon (2004). The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler: A Contemporary Account (1324). Asheville, North Carolina.: Pegasus Press.
3. Owen Connelan (trans.), The Annals of Ireland, p. 104, Dublin: Bryan Geraghty, 1846.