TDIH - January 7 This Day in (Medieval) History: January 7 754 - Pope Stefanus II arrived for a meeting with the Frankish King Pepin III at Ponthion, beginning several months of negotiations over the Pope's request for military protection and restoration of territories that the Pope believed to belong to the Church. 1325 – Alfonso IV was crowned King of Portugal. 1355 - Thomas of Woodstock was born, the youngest son of King Edward III of England. Thomas later became the first Duke of Gloucester. 1558 – A French army under Duke Francis of Guise took Calais, the last remaining English garrison in France left over from the Hundred Years War.