1158
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1158 in poetry |
Thai solar calendar | 1700–1701 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1284 or 903 or 131 — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1285 or 904 or 132 |
Year 1158 (MCLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Autumn – Emperor
Europe
- Frederick I (Barbarossa) with a diadem (called by the chroniclers a diadema or circulus). Vladislaus is also invested with Upper Lusatia, and accompanies Frederick to Milan to suppress the rebellion in Lombardy (Northern Italy).
- The Diet of Roncaglia is convoked by Frederick I. He mobilises an army of 100,000 men and leaves in June for a second Italian expedition – accompanied by Henry the Lion and his Saxon forces. He crosses the Alps and lays siege to Milan. German forces capture the city from the rebels after a short siege.[2] However Milan soon rebels again, with Empress Beatrice taken captive and forced into parading on a donkey.
- Raymond of Fitero, Spanish monk and abbot, pledges to defend the fortress of Calatrava (guarding the roads to Córdoba and Toledo) from incoming Muslim raiders. It is the founding moment of the Order of Calatrava, the spearhead of the Iberian armies during the Reconquista.[3]
- August 31 – King Sancho III (the Desired) dies after a 1-year reign. He is succeeded by his 2-year-old son Alfonso VIII (the Noble) as ruler of Castile. The noble houses of Lara and Castro claim the regency, as the boy's uncle, Ferdinand II (ruler of León and Galicia).
- Portuguese forces, led by King Afonso I (the Great), conquer Pamela, Alcácer do Sal and Sesimbra from the diminished Almoravids.[4]
Britain
- Summer – King Henry II travels to France to meet King Louis VII and propose a marriage between his three-year-old son Henry and Louis' daughter Margaret (less than a year old). She is shipped to England, as the future wife and queen. The Vexin region is promised to Margaret as dowry and is put under the care of the Knights Templar, until her future husband is old enough to take control of it.[5]
- The 12-year-old William Marshal is sent to the Château de Tancarville in Normandy to be brought up in the household of William the Tancarville, a cousin of William's mother. He begins his training as a knight, this also includes academic studies, practical lessons in chivalry and courtly life, and warfare and combat (using wooden swords and spears).
- Welsh forces under William Fitz Robert, Norman lord of Glamorgan, along with his family.
Asia
- Kiyomori Taira a higher position to lead a samurai-dominated government.
By topic
Economy
- The English , and a new penny (Tealby penny) is introduced.
Education
- The University of Bologna is granted its first privileges by Frederick I.
Religion
- The Diocese of Derry is founded in Ireland.
Births
- August 6 – Al-Nasir li-Din Allah, Abbasid caliph (d. 1225)
- September 23 – Geoffrey II, duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
- Albert I (the Proud), margrave of Meissen (d. 1195)
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- Ermengol VIII (or Armengol), count of Urgell (d. 1208)
- Fujiwara no Ietaka, Japanese (waka) poet (d. 1237)
- Giordano Forzatè, Italian religious leader (d. 1248)
- Henry I, French nobleman and knight (d. 1190)
- Henry I (the Elder), German nobleman (d. 1223)
- Jinul (or Chinul), Korean Zen Master (d. 1210)
- Margaret of France, daughter of Louis VII (d. 1197)
- Philip of Dreux, bishop of Beauvais (d. 1217)
- Satō Tsugunobu, Japanese warrior (d. 1185)
- Taira no Shigehira, Japanese general (d. 1185)
- Theobald I, French nobleman and knight (d. 1214)
- Valdemar Knudsen, Danish bishop (d. 1236)
- Yvette of Huy, Belgian anchoress (d. 1228)
Deaths
- April 26 – Martirius, archbishop of Esztergom
- July 19 – Wibald, German monk and abbot (b. 1098)
- July 27 – Geoffrey VI, count of Nantes (b. 1134)
- August 20 – Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney
- August 31 – Sancho III, king of Castile (b. 1134)
- September 22 – Otto I, German bishop (b. 1114)
- Frederick II, German archbishop
- Abu Jafar ibn Atiyya, Almohad vizier and writer
- Anselm of Havelberg, German bishop (b. 1100)
- Barthélemy de Jur, French bishop (b. 1080)
- Oda of Brabant, Belgian prioress and saint
- Thorbjorn Thorsteinsson, Norwegian pirate
References
- ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ^ Comyn, Robert (1851). History of the Western Empire, from its Restoration by Charlemagne to the Accession of Charles V, p. 236–38.
- S2CID 164086223.
- ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 27.