Events
★ Duke Richard of
Aquitaine becomes Duke of
Poitiers. He later becomes King
Richard I of England.
★
Pope Gregory VIII hosts the Council of
Avranches where
Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of
Thomas Becket.
★ The Synod of
Cashel ended the
Celtic Christian system and brought them under
Rome.
★ According to the annals of the Worcester Priory, "nothing memorable" happened in this year.
[1]
Births
★
Baldwin I of Constantinople (d.
1205)
★
Fujiwara Moroie, last of the Japanese
Fujiwara Regents (d.
1238)
★
Takash, the shah of
Persia (d.
1200)
★
Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford (d.
1214)
★
Louis I, Count of Blois (d.
1205)
★
Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester (d.
1232)
★
Isabella of Jerusalem,
Queen of Jerusalem 1190/1192–1205 (d.
1205)
Deaths
★ Agnes, daughter of Italian Count
Amadeus III of Savoy (b.
1125)
★
Hemachandra, Indian mathematician, philosopher and historian (b.
1089)
References
1. 4 ANNALES MONASTICI (Henry Richards Luard ed., 1869) ("MCLXXII. Nihil memoriale.")