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Events

★ Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X.

★ Rochester Cathedral is severely damaged by a fire, but is soon rebuilt.

Births

★ Amalric I of Jerusalem

★ Walter Map, Welsh historian (d. 1209)

★ Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)

Deaths

★ March 8 — Adela of Normandy, by marriage countess of Blois (b. c. 1067).

★ April 9 — William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099).

★ August 1 — King Louis VI of France (b. 1081).

★ September 18 — Eric II of Denmark.

★ December — Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1075).

★ Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine soldier (b. 1062).

★ Adalbert of Mainz, Archbishop of Mainz.

★ Ramanuja, Indian philosopher (b. 1017).

★ Pons of Tripoli, Count of Tripoli.

★ Antipope Gregory VIII.

★ Gruffydd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd.

★ Sergius VII, Duke of Naples.