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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

References

Events

★ Duke Richard of Aquitaine becomes Duke of Poitiers. He later becomes King Richard I of England.

★ Pope Gregory VIII hosts the Council of Avranches where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket.

★ The Synod of Cashel ended the Celtic Christian system and brought them under Rome.

★ According to the annals of the Worcester Priory, "nothing memorable" happened in this year.^[1]

Births

★ Baldwin I of Constantinople (d. 1205)

★ Fujiwara Moroie, last of the Japanese Fujiwara Regents (d. 1238)

★ Takash, the shah of Persia (d. 1200)

★ Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford (d. 1214)

★ Louis I, Count of Blois (d. 1205)

★ Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester (d. 1232)

★ Isabella of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem 1190/1192–1205 (d. 1205)

Deaths

★ Agnes, daughter of Italian Count Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1125)

★ Hemachandra, Indian mathematician, philosopher and historian (b. 1089)

References

1. 4 ANNALES MONASTICI (Henry Richards Luard ed., 1869) ("MCLXXII. Nihil memoriale.")