1127

Year 1127 (MCXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Charles I (the Good), count of Flanders, is murdered; he leaves no children. King Louis VI (the Fat) appoints William Clito (son of Robert Curthose) as new ruler. But the Flemish towns of Bruges, Ghent, Saint-Omer and Ypres recognize (with English financial support) Thierry of Alsace
  as rival count.
• Spring – The forces of Alfonso VII perform a siege on the city of Guimarães, which ended in their withdrawal. ^[1]
• Summer – King Roger II of Sicily claims the Hauteville possessions in Italy as well the overlordship of Capua. However, a coalition of Norman noblemen in Apulia and Calabria resist (supported by Pope Honorius II) against Sicilian rule. The same year, Roger regains control over Malta after a rebellion.^[2]
• Roger II establishes a pact with the maritime Republic of Savona to guarantee the security of the Mediterranean Sea,^[3] probably following an Almoravid raid against the Sicilian realm.^[4]
• December 18 – Conrad III (with support of the imperial cities, Swabia and Austria) is elected and crowned as anti-king of Germany at Nuremberg.

England

• King Henry I arranges the marriage of his daughter Matilda (the widow of Emperor Henry V) to the 14-year-old Geoffrey of Anjou (son of Count Fulk V). This is done to ensure an alliance between England and Anjou, and to prevent Fulk allying with Louis VI.
• Henry I has the English nobles swear
  King of England. She wages a lengthy civil war known as the Anarchy
  , which lasted from 1135-1154.

• Imad ad-Din Zengi, a Turkish military leader, becomes governor (atabeg) of Mosul. He seizes the cities of Nisibin, Sinjar and Harran in the Jazira Region (Northern Mesopotamia
  ).

• Northern Song Dynasty during the Jingkang Incident. They capture Emperor Qin Zong, along with his father, Hui Zong, and members of the House of Zhao.^[5]
• June 12 – Qin Zong's younger brother, the 20-year-old Gao Zong, re-establishes the Song Dynasty (as the Southern Song Dynasty) in Lin'an (modern-day Hangzhou) and is proclaimed emperor.

By topic

Religion

• The
  Kalyan minaret (as part of the Po-i-Kalyan mosque complex) is completed in Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan
  ).

• April 16 – Felix of Valois, French nobleman and hermit (d. 1212)
• May 23 – Uijong, Korean ruler of Goryeo (d. 1173)
• July 23 – Zhao Fu, emperor of the Song Dynasty (d. 1129)
• October 18 – Go-Shirakawa, Japanese emperor (d. 1192)
• Xiao Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1194
  )
• Bolesław I (the Tall), duke of Wrocław (d. 1201)
• Henry I (the Liberal), count of Champagne (d. 1181)
• Julian of Cuenca, Spanish bishop (approximate date)
• Yang Wanli, Chinese politician and poet (d. 1206)

Deaths

• February 7 – Ava (or Ava von Göttweig), German poet (b. 1060)
• February 10 – William IX (the Troubador), duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
• Charles I (the Good), count of Flanders (b. 1084
  )
• Ottone Frangipane, Italian Benedictine monk (b. 1040
  )
• May 16 – Gens du Beaucet, French hermit and saint (b. 1104)
• August 12 – Jordan of Ariano, Norman warrior and nobleman
• Croatia
• October 1 – Morphia of Melitene, queen of Jerusalem (or 1126)
• November 1 – Zhang Bangchang, ruler of Da Chu (b. 1081)
• November 12 – Godbald (or Godebald), bishop of Utrecht
• December 19 – Jordan II (or Giordano), prince of Capua
• Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress consort (b. 1036)
• Fulcher of Chartres, French priest and chronicler (b. 1059)
• Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin, Irish historian and abbot^[6]
• Gualfardo of Verona, Italian trader and hermit (b. 1070)
• Minamoto no Yoshimitsu, Japanese samurai (b. 1045)
• William II, Norman duke of Apulia and Calabria (b. 1095)
• William III (the Child), count of Burgundy (b. 1110)
• Zhu, Chinese empress of the Song Dynasty (b. 1102)

References