1125

Year 1125 (MCXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Levant

• Ioveta and Joscelin II who are taken hostage). Aq-Sunqur al-Bursuqi, governor (atabeg) of Mosul, withdraws to Aleppo and is forced to make a truce, leaving the frontier in northern Syria in peace for 18 months.^[1]

• Lothair II (duke of Saxony) is elected King of Germany and crowned at Aachen on September 13
  .
• Lothair II (supported by Pope Honorius II) asks Frederick II to restore to the crown the estates that he has inherited from Henry V. Frederick refuses, and by year's end a succession dispute breaks out between the House of Welf and the House of Hohenstaufen. The latter is led by Frederick and his brother Conrad III, duke of Franconia.
• King
  Magnus I (the Strong) proclaims himself ruler over the Lands of Sweden (Norrland, Svealand and Gothenland) (until 1134
  ).
• The Venetians pillage the islands of Rhodes, ravage Samos and Lesbos, and occupy Chios (controlled by the Byzantine Empire). The Florentines sack and conquer the neighboring independent republic of Fiesole in Italy.
• Benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat on the Lérins Islands (French Riviera).^[2]
• The first fair in Portugal is created in Ponte de Lima; it is an early sign of the commercialization and economic development.^[3]
• King Alfonso I (the Battler) of Aragon and Navarre leads a Castellan raid in Andalusia (Southern Spain).^[4]

England

• King
  Matilda, daughter and heiress of Eustace III, count of Boulogne. This gives Stephen control of the County of Boulogne and also lands in England that has belonged to Eustace (who dies on his return from the Holy Land
  ).

• November –
  Jin–Song War: Emperor Taizong of the Jurchen-led Jin Dynasty declares war on the Chinese Song Dynasty – and orders his armies to invade Song territory. He sends the Western army to the city of Taiyuan in Shanxi province and the Eastern army to Bianjing (modern-day Kaifeng), the Song capital. The Song forces are not expecting an invasion and are caught off guard.^[5]
• The
  Onon, Kherlen and Tuul in the Khentii Mountains
  .

• al-Amir.^[6]

• Albert of Aix, German historian and writer, begins his Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis (approximate date).

Education

• March 29 – Reading School is founded in Berkshire in England.

Religion

• A collection of Zen Buddhist koans is compiled, in the Chinese Blue Cliff Record.

Births

• October 17 – Lu You, Chinese poet and writer (d. 1209)
• date unknown
  • Abraham ben David, French rabbi (approximate date)
  • Baldwin of Forde, English archbishop (approximate date)
  • Bolesław IV (the Curly), duke of Poland (approximate date)
  • Chueang, Thai ruler of the Ngoenyang Kingdom (d. 1192)
  • Eystein II (Haraldsson), king of Norway (approximate date)
  • Fernando Rodríguez de Castro, Spanish nobleman (d. 1185)
  • Giovanni de Surdis Cacciafronte, Italian bishop (d. 1184)
  • Guigues V, count of Albon and Grenoble (approximate date)
  • Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Persian historian and writer (d. 1201
    )
  • Matilda of Savoy, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1157)
  • Otto II (the Rich), margrave of Meissen (d. 1190)
  • Reginald of Châtillon, French nobleman (d. 1187)
  • William de Vesci, Norman High Sheriff (d. 1184)
  • William of Æbelholt, French churchman (d. 1203)

Deaths

• January 24 – David IV (the Builder), king of Georgia (b. 1073)
• April 12 – Vladislaus I, duke of Bohemia (b. 1065)
• May 19 – Vladimir II, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1053)
• May 23 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1086)^[7]
• Lambert of St-Bertin
  , French chronicler
• September 14 – Constance, princess of Antioch (b. 1078)
• September 27 – Richeza of Berg, duchess of Bohemia
• October 21 – Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian chronicler
• December 3 – Berengar II, German nobleman
• December 29 – Agnes I, abbess of Quedlinburg
• Adalbert II, count of Mörsberg (approximate date)
• Alina Martain, French Benedictine nun and saint
• Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi, vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate
• Bernard of Sédirac, Spanish abbot and archbishop
• Bonfilius, Italian Benedictine monk and bishop
• Eustace III, count of Boulogne
  (approximate date)
• Harding of Bristol, English sheriff reeve (b. 1048)
• Hugh I, count of Champagne (approximate date)
• Ibn al-Khashshab, Seljuk Shi'i magistrate (qadi
  )
• Sweden
  (approximate date)
• Robert de Mowbray, Norman Earl of Northumbria

References