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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Louis VII capitulates to Pope Celestine II and so earns the pope's absolution.

★ March 12 — Pope Lucius II succeeds Pope Celestine II as the 166th pope.

★ December 24 — County of Edessa falls to Zengi (see Siege of Edessa).

★ Montauban, France, is founded.

★ First recorded example of an anti-Semitic blood libel in England.

★ Normandy comes under Angevin control under Geoffrey of Anjou.

★ First recorded mention of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

★ Giordano Pierleoni founds the revolutionary Commune of Rome.

★ Manuel I Comnenus brings Raymond, Prince of Antioch, under Byzantine influence.

★ The Priory in Lesmahagow is founded by Benedictine monks.

Births

★ Bohemund III of Antioch (d. 1201)

Deaths

★ March 8 — Pope Celestine II

★ September — Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex