History of the World from 6 CE to 1600 CE


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(Part 10 -- 1100 to 1199 CE)





1100 July 18 Baldwin I becomes king of Jerusalem
   
1100 August 2 William II (Rufus) killed while hunting. Henry leaves Rufus' body in the forest and rides to Winchester.
   
1100 August 5 Henry I succeeds William Rufus
   
1100 Nov 11 Henry I marries Matilda
   
1101 Robert II of Normandy attempts to take the English Crown by invasion. He is bought off with the Treaty of Alton.
   
1101 April 2 Henry I appoints a Norman Monk, Roger as Chancellor
   
1103 May 24 Olavsson III Magnus, King of Norway, killed in Ireland.
   
1104 Acre taken by the Crusaders
   
1105 Henry attacks his brother Robert
   
1106 Henry attacks his brother Robert again
   
1107 FitzHamon dies
   
1107 Scotland Death of Edgar causes split in unity he is succeeded by his brother Alexander I (-1124)
   
1109 Anglo-French War (-1113)
   
1111 Knights Templars formed ?
   
1112 March Bernard of Clairvaux reaches Citeaux
   
1113 Hospital of St. John recognized by papal bull as separate order
   
1114 Count of Champagne travels to the Holy Land
   
1115 Count of Champagne donates land to St. Bernard
   
1118 Baldwin II becomes King of Jerusalem
   
1118 May 1 Queen Matilda dies
   
1118 Gelasius II becomes pope (1118-19)
   
1119 Knights Templar order officially founded in Jerusalem near the Temple Mount. Hugues de Payen elected Master of the Temple. Godfrey of Saint Adhemar, a Fleming, with seven other knights are original founders.
   
1119 Callistus II becomes pope (1119-24)
   
1120 Peace between Henry I and Louis VI of France
   
1120 November William Audelin (Henry I's only legitimate son) is drowned when the White Ship sinks off Harfluer.
   
1122 Henry I creates earldom of Gloucester for his illegitimate son Robert of Caen.
   
1123 Oct 23 Tewkesbury Abbey consecrated
   
1124 Alexander I of Scotland dies and unity restored under David I (-1153)
   
1124 Honorius II becomes pope (1124-30)
   
1125 Hugh of Champagne joins the Templars
   
1126 Hugues de Payen travels West
   
1126 Hospital of St. John displayed possible military attributes; its "constable" was cited in sources
   
1127 January English Barons swear allegiance to Matilda, daughter of Henry I and widow of Emperor Henry V, as Henry I's successor.
   
1127 Templars are donated land near Troyes
   
1127 Possible date of the founding of the German Hospital of St. Mary in Jerusalem
   
1128 Probable circulation of St. Bernard of Clairvaux' "Liber ad milites templi de laude novae militiae"
   
1128 April Hugh de Payen visits Fulk of Anjou
   
1128 Templar Church in London
   
1128 Hugues de Payen visits Scotland and England
   
1128 Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet of Anjou at her father, Henry I, insistence.
   
1129 January Council of Troyes takes place and recognizes Templars as an order.
   
1130 Innocent II becomes pope (1130-43)
   
1131 King Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre attempted to turn over the kingdom to the Templars, Hospitallers, and Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in his will
   
1132 Winter Founding of Fountain's Abbey
   
1135 December 1 Henry I dies
   
1135 December 22 Stephen (-1154) succeeds Henry I as a direct defiance of Henry's wishes.
   
1135 Stephen at Hereford
   
1136 Hugues de Payen dies
   
1136 Empress Matilda asserts her right to English throne.
   
1137 Eleanor of Guienne (Eleanor of Aquitaine) marries French King Louis VII, joining Aquitaine and France.
   
1137 Gruffydd, Prince of North Wales, dies and is succeeded by Owain the Great (-1170)
   
1138 Cressing Temple Site
   
1138 August 22 Battle of 'the Standard' David I of Scotland invades England on behalf of Empress Matilda and is defeated.
   
1139 Papal Bull by Pope Innocent II
   
1139 Matilda lands in England at Arundel; Civil war begins in England.
   
1140 Abbey Church of St. Denis begun
   
1141 Matilda is proclaimed queen of England at Winchester.
   
1143 Celestine II becomes pope (1143-44)
   
1143 Two sources on Pope Celestine II mention a German hospital in Jerusalem in some kind of dispute with the Hospital of St. John; the German hospital was put under the supervision of the Hospital of St. John
   
1144 Lucius II becomes pope (1144-45)
 
1144 Geoffrey of Anjou made Duke of Normandy
   
1145 Blessed Eugene III becomes pope (1145-53)
   
1146 Knights Templar adopt cross pattee
   
1146 The Crusade principality of Edessa falls to the resurgent Muslims. As a result, Pope Eugene II sends letter to French King Louis VII, asking for the Second Crusade.
   
1147 Matilda leaves England
   
1147 Russian City of Moscow founded.
   
1147 The Second Crusade
   
1148 June 24 Attack on Damascus
   
1151 Geoffrey of Anjou dies and is succeeded by his son Henry
   
1152 Mar 18 Eleanor of Guienne divorces Louis VII of France at Beaugency.
   
1152 May 18 Eleanor of Guienne marries Henry II Plantagenet, who becomes King of England in 1154. This begins a long struggle between France and England over Aquitaine.
   
1153 Carta Conventionum
   
1153 David I of Scotland dies and is succeeded by his grandson Malcolm IV (-1165)
   
1153 Anastasius IV becomes pope (1153-54)
 
1154 Adrian IV becomes pope (1154-59)
   
1154 December Stephen dies and is succeeded by Henry II (-1189). Plantagenets will rule England until 1485
   
1154 Henry II appoints Thomas a Becket as chancellor
   
1155 Knights Templar build Temple in Fleet Street
   
1155 Henry II abolishes earldom and restores royal demesne.
   
1157 September 9 Richard (I) is born at Oxford to Henry II and Eleanor
   
1158 Knights Templar present in Italy
   
1159 Alexander III becomes pope (1159-81)
   
1161 Knights Templar move London Temple
   
1161 Edward the Confessor canonized
   
1162 Thomas Becket becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
   
1163 October Henry II puts plans of reform to Council of Westminster
   
1164 Templars attempt a reconciliation
   
1166 Building of Orford Castle
   
1170 Saladin of Damascus (-1193) subdues Egypt
   
1170 June 14 Coronation of Prince Henry
   
1170 Dec 1Thomas Becket returns to England
   
1170 Dec 29 Thomas Becket is killed
   
1170 Eleanor, sick of husband Henry II's infidelities, moves her residence to Poitiers, France.
   
1172 Eleanor raises Aquitaine against Henry II
   
1172 Reconciliation between Henry II and the pope.
   
1172 German monk Theodorich wrote Guide to the Holy Land
   
1173 Queen Eleanor imprisoned (-1185)
   
1173 Thomas a Becket canonized.
   
1173 Baronial rebellion
   
1174 William I of Scotland signs Treaty of Falaise
   
1174 May Richard (I) seizes the town of Saintes from his father, Henry II
   
1174 July 7 Whipping of Henry II in penance for murder of Becket
   
1176 Saladin conquers Syria
   
1176 Sophia, Countess of Holland, was buried in the German hospital in Jerusalem
   
1177 Treaty of Ivry between Henry II and Louis VII
   
1179 Richard (I) takes the impenetrable fortress town of Taillebourg.
   
1180 Building begins on Wells Cathedral
   
1180 Louis VII dies and is succeeded b his son Phillip II Augustus (-1223)
   
1181 Lucius III becomes pope (1181-85)
   
1183 June The Young King of England (designated but never rules) dies
   
1183 Saladin takes Aleppo
   
1184 Battle of Uji River, Japan.
   
1185 The Minamoto clan of Yoritomo defeats the Taira clan, and Yoritomo becomes the first shogun of Japan.
   
1185 Urban III becomes pope (1185-87)
   
1186 Geoffrey, son of Henry II, dies in a tournament
   
May 1, 1187 - Hospitallers and Templars defeated by the Muslims at Nazareth  
   
1187 July 4 Saladin (Salah ad-Din) defeats Crusaders at Hattin, and captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Hospitallers, Templars, and the "flower of the nobility" devastated
   
1187 Nov Richard (I) takes the Cross.
   
1187 Gregory VIII becomes pope (1187)
 
1187 Clement III becomes pope (1187-91)
   
1188 Cutting of the Elm
   
1189 William gives Richard 10,000 marks
   
1189 July 6 Henry (II) dies and is succeeded by his son, Richard Coeur de Lion (-1199)
   
1189 Sept 3 Richard I Crowned King
   
1189 Beginning of the Third Crusade (-1193).
   
1190 March Massacre of Jews at York
   
1190 July 4 Richard's Crusade starts
   
1190 Sep. King Guy of Jerusalem awarded Teutonic Order or "Teutonic Knights" a portion of a tower in Acre; the bequest was re-enforced on Feb. 10, 1192; the order perhaps shared the tower with the English Order of the Hospital of St. Thomas
   
1191 Feb. 6 Questionable bull of Pope Clement III approving the German hospitaller order at Acre
   
1191 April 10 Richard's fleet leaves Sicily
   
1191 April 20 Philip V arrives in Acre
   
1191 May 6 Richard sails to Cyprus.
   
1191 May 11 Meeting in Limassol of Richard and Philip
   
1191 May 12 Richard marries Berengaria of Navarre at Eleanor's insistence. Berengaria becomes the only queen of England never to set foot in England.
   
1191 June 1 Richard controls Cyprus and sells it to the Knights Templar
   
1191 June 6 Richard arrives at Tyre and attacks Acre
   
1191 Jul. 12 Siege of Acre ends in crusader victory
   
1191 Celestine III becomes pope (1191-98)
   
1192 Afghan ruler Muhammad of Ghor defeats Prithvi Raj and captures Delhi, founding the Delhi Sultanate, first Moslem empire in India, which lasts until 1398.
   
1192 Saladin and the Crusaders enter into the Peace of Ramla, leaving the Crusaders with a strip of coastal territory.
   
1192 Richard I returning from Crusade is captured by Leopold, Duke of Austria
   
1193 Richard I is handed over to Henry VI (Emperor) and is imprisoned
   
1193 Saladin dies
   
1194 April 17 The 'Crown Wearing'
   
1194 King Richard I Coeur de Lion, is freed only after payment of a huge ransom.
   
1194 Yellow River in China drastically changes is course from north to south of the Shantung Peninsula.
   
1195 Apr. Count Palatinate Henry of Champagne provides Teutonic Knights the house of Theodore of Sarepta in Tyre
   
1196 Mar., Count Palatinate Henry confers possessions in Jaffa (Joppa) on Teutonic Knights
   
1196 Dec. 21, Pope Celestine III takes the "Hospital of St. Mary of the Germans in Jerusalem" under his protection
   
1196 Hermann von Salza accompanies Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen to the Holy Land
1197 May 20, German emperor Henry VI gives the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Barletta, Italy
   
1197 Jul. 18, Henry VI gives Teutonic Knights a church and cloister (of the Holy Trinity) in Palermo, Sicily
   
1197 Great Council refuses Richard's request
   
1198 Jan 8 Innocent III becomes pope (1198-1216)
   
1198 Mar. 5, Teutonic Knights established as a military order in a ceremony in Acre's Temple which is attended by the secular and clerical leaders of the Latin Kingdom
   
1198 First military action of the Teutonic Knights with King Amalric II of Jerusalem; Amalric gives them (in August) a tower in Acre, formerly belonging to the Order of St. Nicholas
   
1199 Feb. 19, Bull of Pope Innocent III confirmed the Teutonic Knights' wearing of the Templars' white mantle and following of the Hospitallers' rule
   
1199 March Siege at the castle of Chalus, Richard dies afterward from a crossbow bolt.
   
1199 John Lackland (-1216) succeeds Richard I

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