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1205/1210, author of lais in Anglo-Norman Jean Bodel Undated troubadors Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s) Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s) Marcabru (fl...
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weeks (due to constant Seljuk skirmishes) forced to fall back on Afamiya in northern Syria. Winter – The Crusaders, led by Baldwin I, besiege Tyre, without...
of Poland has his half-brother Zbigniew blinded and thrown into a dungeon in Tyniec Abbey. Archishop Martin I excommunicates Bolesław for committing this...
in royal banquets to the Korean court of Goryeo, by request from King Yejong. November 29 – A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the...
written in the 1130s, which popularized the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. The code of chivalry that developed in medieval...
Salerno and other cities that have resisted him. Burgsteinfurt Castle is built in what is now Steinfurt (modern Germany). Jin–Song War: Emperor Gao Zong of...
to retreat to Salerno. Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire. June – A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000...
by Turkish forces led by Belek Ghazi near Saruj in northern Syria. Belek offers Joscelin liberty in return for the cession of Edessa. He refuses to accept...
knights to Bordeaux, along with Abbot Suger in charge of the wedding arrangements. Louis and Eleanor are married in the Cathedral of Saint-André. France unites...
First Council of the Lateran convenes in Rome; it confirms the 1122 Concordat of Worms and demands clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church. The coronation...
approaches the city. Zengi raises the siege after hearing rumours of trouble in Mosul. He rushes back with his army to take control. There, Zengi is praised...
place after a year of foreshocks. Its name is taken from the city of Hama, in west-central Syria (then under Seljuk rule), where the most casualties are...
rebellion in Lombardy (Northern Italy). The Diet of Roncaglia is convoked by Frederick I. He mobilises an army of 100,000 men and leaves in June for a...
Prydwen. In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written in the 1130s, he listed Arthur's weapons, giving his shield the name Pridwen. His...
triumphant entry at Aleppo, Crusader prisoners are dragged in chains – where they are tortured to death in the streets. The massacre leads to the name of the...
market in Paris. May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded in Wales by Cistercian monks in the Wye Valley. Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in Jiangsu...
IV, count of Barcelona, launches a raid against Almoravid-held territories in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), and pillages the country all the way to Cadiz....
Kara Arslan – who has made an alliance with Joscelin II, count of Edessa. In support of the alliance Joscelin marches out of Edessa with a Crusader army...
make a truce, leaving the frontier in northern Syria in peace for 18 months. May 23 – Emperor Henry V dies of cancer in Utrecht after leading an expedition...
del Vasto, the wealthy widow of Count Roger I of Sicily ('Bosso') in Acre. She lands in Palestine accompanied by Arab soldiers (her personal bodyguard)...
parataxis (a defensive formation, consisting of a hollow square, with the baggage in the centre). During the battle, the Seljuk Turks mount several attacks on...
forces under Toghtekin make extensive raids into Galilee. King Baldwin II, in reprisal, crosses the Jordan River with a Crusader army, and ravages the countryside...
led before a hostile crowd and publicly blinded. Nur al-Din puts him in prison in the Citadel of Aleppo. Battle of Aintab: A Crusader army led by King...
in Rome. Arnold of Brescia is exiled by Adrian IV and forced to flee. He is arrested by imperial forces; hanged and his body burned at the stake in Rome...
Second Crusade at Vézelay, in Burgundy. King Louis VII of France and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, take up the cross. In a repeat of the events of...
Nur al-Din, misinformed of the strength of the Crusader forces, retreats. In fact the Zangid forces (some 6,000 men) outnumber the Crusaders by over four...
while the Venetians are on a naval expedition. Doge Ordelafo Faliero dies in battle (near Zadar) against the Hungarians. Faliero is succeeded by Domenico...
city of Guimarães, which ended in their withdrawal. Summer – King Roger II of Sicily claims the Hauteville possessions in Italy as well the overlordship...
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