corresponding "[year] inpoetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources...
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lais in Anglo-Norman Jean Bodel Undated troubadors Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s) Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s) Marcabru (fl. 1140s and 1150s)...
Bertran de Born (Occitan: [beɾˈtɾan de ˈbɔɾn]; 1140s – by 1215) was a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the...
and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism. He wrote a collection of lyrical poems and number of long poems in the philosophical tradition of Islamic...
Yusuf is mentioned once by Nizami in his poetry. In the same verse, Nizami mentions his grandfather's name as Zakki. In part of the same verse, some have...
on the obverse of Crusader coins, e.g. in coins of the County of Tripoli minted under Raymond II or III c. 1140s–1160s show an "eight-rayed star with pellets...
an important part in the creation and expansion of multiple art forms during the period in which they had influence. By the 1140s, the Seljuk Empire...
treaty. Autumn – William IV, count of Nevers, arrives in Palestine with a contingent of elite knights. In Jerusalem he is present during a council with Amalric...
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....
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...
to retreat to Salerno. Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire. June – A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000...
succeeds Pope Adrian IV, as the 170th pope. The Heiji Rebellion breaks out in Japan. Tunis is reconquered from the Normans, by the Almohad caliphs. (Approximate...
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...
strife between him and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in order that he may dally in western Herefordshire with his mistress, Rosamund Clifford,...
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...
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...
cuts were made in teaching personnel, and the national university itself was reduced in size. The exception to this was in the 1140s when the court played...
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...
envoys to Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk ruler of Mosul, to seek his protection in exchange of Damascus. Zengi crosses the Euphrates, receiving the surrender...
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...
confronts Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk ruler (atabeg) of Mosul, near Dara'a in southern Syria. Turkish forces under Mu'in al-Din (supported by the Crusaders)...
the Yangtze River, between the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in China, result in two pivotal Song naval victories. December 15 – Wanyan Liang, Chinese...
wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia. He is succeeded by his 24-year-old son Manuel I, who is chosen as his successor, in preference to his elder surviving...
Germany, in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin at Koblenz. He is crowned at Aachen six days later (on March 13), and acknowledged in Bamberg by...
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...
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...
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