1133 (thing)

In the year AD 1133...

• The White Lotus Society, a Pure Land Buddhist secret society, is founded in China.
• Construction begins on Exeter Cathedral.
• Lothair III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Innocent II.

These people were born in 1133...

• English king Henry II.
• Japanese Buddhist monk Honen, founder of the Pure Land Sect (Jodoshu) of Japanese Buddhism.
• Saint Thorlak, the patron saint of Iceland.
• Norwegian king Sigurd II.
• Chinese Confucian scholar Zhang Shi.
• Japanese nobleman Fujiwara Nobuyori.

These people died in 1133...

• Icelandic priest and scholar Sæmundur the Learned.
• French priest and writer Hildebert of Lavardin.
• Burgundian noblewoman Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat, the daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy, and the wife of Humbert II, Count of Savoy and later of Rainier I of Montferrat.

1132 - 1133 - 1134

12th century

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