Editing 1323 (section)

=== October &ndash; December ===
* [[October 8]] &ndash; John XXII claims the right to confirm imperial elections and demands that Louis IV of Bavarian surrender his claim to be [[King of the Romans]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology of World History" />
* [[October 15]] &ndash; Hostilities that will lead to the [[War of Saint-Sardos]] between England and France begin when King [[Charles IV of France]] has a royal sergeant place a stake claiming to claim the French town of [[Saint-Sardos, Lot-et-Garonne|Saint-Sardos]], territory within the jurisdiction of King Edward II of England (who is also the ruler of the [[Duchy of Aquitaine]] in southeastern France).<ref name=Warner>Kathryn Warner, ''Edward II: The Unconventional King'' (Amberley Publishing, 2014)</ref>
* [[October 16]] &ndash; Lord Raymond-Bernard, of the Aquitaine town of [[Montpezat, Lot-et-Garonne|Montpezat]], burns the village of Saint-Sardos to the ground and hangs the French royal sergeant who acted as agent for King Charles IV. France's government blames the England's [[Ralph Basset, 2nd Baron Basset of Drayton|Baron Basset]] of the [[Duchy of Gascony]], for hiring Lord Raymond-Bernard.
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Pope John XXII]] issues the papal bull ''Cum inter nonnullos'' as an addendum to the December 8 bull ''Ad conditorem canonum'', declaring that the assertion of the [[Fraticelli]] that Christ and the Apostles possessed no property (and advocated poverty as a Christian virtue) is a heresy.<ref name=Bonagratia/> 
* [[November]] &ndash; [[1323–1328 Flemish revolt|Flemish Revolt]]: A uprising in [[County of Flanders|Flanders]] is caused by both excessive taxation levied by Louis I, and by his pro-French policies. The revolt is led by landowning farmers under [[Nicolaas Zannekin]]. Members of the local gentry join and [[William Deken]], mayor of [[Bruges]], becomes the leader of the revolt.<ref>William H. TeBrake (1993). ''A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323–1328''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. {{ISBN|0-8122-3241-0}}.</ref>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; John of Nottingham and Robert of Coventry, two Englishmen believed by Coventry residents to be expert on [[necromancy]], begin the process of casting a spell to kill King Edward II, Sir Hugh le Despenser of Winchester, as well as the prior of Coventry. John allegedly accepted 20 pounds sterling, and starts his necromancy by making wax figurines of the targets of elimination and then using them for the next six months. The two men will later be prosecuted for sorcery after one of the designated victims allegedly dies after a pin is driven into his figurine.<ref>Natalie Fryde, ''The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II 1321-1326'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004) pp.162-163</ref>
* [[December 21]] &ndash; In further retaliation by the King Charles of France against King Edward of England for the Saint-Sardos incident, Edward's chief advocate in France's parliament, Pons Tournemire, is arrested and imprisoned in the [[Grand Châtelet]].<ref>Roy Martin Haines, King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon, His Life, His Reign and Its Aftermath 1284—1330 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003) pp. 315-321, 509</ref>