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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Saladin unsuccessfully besieges the Hospitaller fortress of Krak des Chevaliers in modern Syria.

★ Newgate Prison is built.

★ Richard Lionheart allies with Philip II of France against his father, Henry II of England.

★ Giraldus Cambrensis and Baldwin of Exeter travel through Wales attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade.

★ The "Saladin tithe" is levied in England.

★ Alfonso IX of Leon becomes king of Leon.

★ Queen Tamar of Georgia marries David Soslan.

★ Cutting of the elm at Gisors.

Births

★ March 4 — Blanche of Castile (d. 1252)

Deaths

★ August 22 — Ferdinand II of Leon (b. 1137)

★ October 11 — Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France (b. c. 1123)

★ Usamah ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (b. 1095)