Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1181: Bertran de Born's first...
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12th century, author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" Chrétien de Troyes flourishes in the 1170s and 1180s Marie de France flourishes from approximately...
Gelati and Ikalto, and then in "Greece" (i.e., the Byzantine Empire). He must have produced his major work no earlier than the 1180s and no later than the first...
celebrated on 29 May. The date which it written is between 1175 and the 1180s. Von Bingen, Hildegard. Columba Aspexit, sequence for Maximinus. Hildegard...
(Barbarossa) is crowned King of Burgundy at Arles. He will repeat the ceremony in 1186. Returning to Germany, he begins proceedings against Henry III (the Lion)...
island in the middle of the Seine River, near Vernon in Normandy. The agreement recognizes John as overlord of most of the English owned lands in France...
restore Angevin power in northern France (approximate date). Summer – Henry VI takes cruel measures to put down an insurrection in Sicily and southern Italy...
(born 1100) Fl. 1180s: Joseph of Exeter, English poet writing in Latin Fl. 1180s: H[enry] of Saltrey, English Cistercian monk writing in Latin Born c. 1197:...
control, against the fugitive Alexios III in Thrace. Meanwhile, a Crusader fleet operates in the Sea of Marmara in support of the Thracian campaign. The Crusaders...
Grail mythos which has its origins in Perceval, the Story of the Grail, written by Chrétien de Troyes in the 1180s. In the story, Perceval is a young man...
26 – Richard I besieges the unarmed castle of Châlus-Chabrol, and is shot in the left shoulder with a crossbow, by the French boy Pierre Basile. The war...
only eight supernovae in the Milky Way observed in recorded history. It appears in the constellation Cassiopeia and is visible in the night sky for about...
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...
Alexios III Angelos, who resides in the Palace of Blachernae, dispatches a small force under Alexios Palaiologos, Alexios' son-in-law, who is regarded as his...
Frederick I, is elected "King of Germany" by his supporters at Mühlhausen in Thuringia. Archbishop Adolf of Cologne elects Otto of Brunswick, son of Henry...
imminent. King Amalric I withdraws his Templar garrison from Gaza, to assist him in defending Darum. Saladin raises the siege and marches on Gaza, where he captures...
rivals of Venice: Genoa and Pisa. He grants them their own trade quarters in Constantinople, very near the Venetian settlements. May 7 – King William I...
so, she would not appoint him the title. The first nunnery is inaugurated in Iceland, the Kirkjubæjar Abbey. Caliph al-Nasir marries Princess Seljuki....
Al-Zahir receives Aleppo (with lands in northern Syria), and Turan-Shah receives Yemen. The other dominions and fiefs in the Oultrejordain (also called Lordship...
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...
In March, Richard returns to England, and remains for only a few weeks before returning to the Continent. He leaves the administration of England in the...
lost it in 1167 to Byzantium before regaining her in the 1180s. Prior to 1180 (the reign of Ban Kulin) parts of Bosnia were briefly found in Serb or Croat...
I (Komnenos) orders the arrest of all Venetians in his empire, and seizes their ships and goods. In September, Doge Vitale II Michiel leads a Venetian...
strife between him and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in order that he may dally in western Herefordshire with his mistress, Rosamund Clifford,...
forces, who are scattered and forced to retreat. March – Byzantine officials in Adrianople revolt and expel Latin administrators, requesting Bulgarian support...
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