1172

Year 1172 (MCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1172 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1172
MCLXXII
Ab urbe condita1925
Armenian calendar621
ԹՎ ՈԻԱ
Assyrian calendar5922
Balinese saka calendar1093–1094
Bengali calendar579
Berber calendar2122
English Regnal year18 Hen. 2  19 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1716
Burmese calendar534
Byzantine calendar6680–6681
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
3868 or 3808
     to 
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
3869 or 3809
Coptic calendar888–889
Discordian calendar2338
Ethiopian calendar1164–1165
Hebrew calendar4932–4933
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1228–1229
 - Shaka Samvat1093–1094
 - Kali Yuga4272–4273
Holocene calendar11172
Igbo calendar172–173
Iranian calendar550–551
Islamic calendar567–568
Japanese calendarJōan 2
(承安2年)
Javanese calendar1079–1080
Julian calendar1172
MCLXXII
Korean calendar3505
Minguo calendar740 before ROC
民前740年
Nanakshahi calendar−296
Seleucid era1483/1484 AG
Thai solar calendar1714–1715
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1298 or 917 or 145
     to 
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1299 or 918 or 146
King Béla III of Hungary (r. 1172–1196)

Events

Europe

  • April - May Béla III returns to Hungary – where he is acclaimed king by the Hungarian nobility, after the death (possibly poison) of his elder brother Stephen III, on March 4.
  • May 28 Doge Vitale II Michiel, accused at a General Assembly at the Ducal Palace, for the destruction of the Venetian fleet, is stabbed to death by an angry mob at Venice.
  • Summer The 14-year-old Richard (later Richard I of England) is formally recognized as duke of Aquitaine. The ceremony takes place in Poitiers, at the Church of St. Hilary.[1]
  • A Muslim rebellion is quelled at Prades in Catalonia; this event marks the end of the pacification of the lands recently conquered by Count Ramon Berenguer IV (the Saint).[2]

England

  • King Henry II and Humbert III (the Blessed), agree to wed their respective heirs, John and Alicia. The alliance never occurs because Henry's elder heir, Henry the Young King, becomes jealous over the castles in the realm which Henry has promised to the couple. He stages a rebellion which will take Henry two years to put down. By that time, Alicia has died.[3]
  • April 17 Henry II receives homage from the Irish princes who include Domnall Mór Ua Briain, king of Munster. He grants Hugh de Lacy the lordship of Meath (or Mide) for providing the services of 50 knights.[4]

Egypt

  • Summer Emir Nur al-Din begins a two year war against the Danishmends. He creates a buffer zone between the Syrian realm and Egypt. Meanwhile, he releases Count Raymond of Tripoli for the sum of 80,000 dinars.
  • Winter The Nubians are engaged in a series of skirmishes along the frontier in Upper Egypt. A force of Kurdish troops under Turan-Shah, a brother of Saladin, attack the Nubians. He installs a garrison in Qasr Ibrim.[5]

Religion

  • May Compromise of Avranches: Alberto di Morra is sent by Pope Alexander III to the Council of Avranches, to investigate the murder of Thomas Becket. Henry II is cleared of any guilt in Becket's murder. He swears to go on a crusade and does penance at the Cathedral of Avranches. He revokes two controversial clauses of the Constitutions of Clarendon.
  • Autumn The Synod of Cashel ends the Celtic Christian system and brings them into alignment with the Roman Rite (Catholic Church).
  • According to the annals of the Worcester Priory, "nothing memorable" happens in this year.[6]

Births

Deaths

  • March 4 Stephen III, king of Hungary (b. 1147)
  • March 7 Il-Arslan, Khwarezm ruler (shah)
  • May 28 Vitale II Michiel, doge of Venice
  • October 14 Ludwig II, German nobleman (b. 1128)
  • December 23 Ugo Ventimiglia, Italian cardinal
  • Douce II, countess of Provence (b. 1162)
  • Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd, king of Gwynedd
  • Hugh of Fouilloy, French prior and writer
  • Ibn Qalaqis, Fatimid poet and writer (b. 1137)
  • Robert FitzEdith, English nobleman (b. 1093)
  • Robert FitzRanulph, English high sheriff
  • William III, French nobleman (b. 1093)
  • William VII, French nobleman b. 1131)
  • Henry, Prince of Capua, Sicilian prince (b. 1160)

References

  1. Turner, Ralph; Heiser, Richard (2013). The Reign of Richard Lionheart: ruler of the Angevin empire, 1189-99. London: Routledge: Taylor and Francis, p. 57. ISBN 978-1-317-8904-23.
  2. McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and the Principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History. 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.
  3. King John by Warren. Published by the University of California Press in 1961. p. 29
  4. Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1892). "Lacy, Hugh de (d. 1186)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography, p. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. David Nicolle (2011). Osprey: Command 12 - Saladin, p. 4. ISBN 978-1-84908-317-1.
  6. 4 ANNALES MONASTICI (Henry Richards Luard ed., 1869) ("MCLXXII. Nihil memoriale.")
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