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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ July 18 — Battle of Alarcos, great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII.

★ Priory of St Mary's, Bushmead, founded.

★ Alexius III Angelus overthrows Isaac II and becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

Births

★ August 15 — Anthony of Padua, Portuguese preacher and saint (d. 1231)

★ Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (d. 1245)

★ Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester (d. 1265)

Deaths

★ August 6 — Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)

★ December 17 — Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)

★ Gualdim Pais — Great Master of the Templars in Portugal (b. 1118)

★ Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (b. c. 1125)