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Sat Aug 13 2005 at 8:41:33
In the year 1164...
Conflict intensifies between English king
Henry II
and
Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas à Becket
over Henry's attempts to assert civil jurisdiction over the church. Beckett at first reluctantly agrees to the
Constitutions of Clarendon
designed to limit Church freedoms, but then changes his mind and defiantly refuses to sign. Henry then issues him a summons to appear before a a great council at
Northampton
to answer crimal charges, but Beckett flees in a fishing boat to France where he begins courting support from Pope
Alexander III
and French king
Louis VII
. The council at Northhampton is often considered the origin of the present-day
Grand Jury
system.
The spectacular
Sanjusangendo
temple of a thousand Buddhas is constructed in
Kyoto
at the behest of retired emperor
Go-Shirakawa
.
The
Crusader Kingdoms
suffer several setbacks. King of
Jerusalem
Amalric I
launches an unsuccessful raid into
Egypt
, but his army is defeated by
Shirkuh
in the
Battle of Bilbeis
. Meanwhile Muslim generalissimo
Nur ad-Din
defeats Prince
Bohemond III
of
Antioch
and
Count Raymond of Tripoli
at the
Battle of Harim
.
Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick Barbarossa
takes the bones of the
Three Wise Men
from a church in
Milan
and gives them to the Archbishop of Cologne,
Rainald of Dassel
. The spectacular
Cologne Cathedral
will later be built to house them.
Verona
forms the
Veronese League
for mutual defense against the machinations of
Frederick Barbarossa
to expand his influence in
Italy
.
The Welsh Cistercian abbey
Strata Florida
(Welsh Ystrad Fflur) is founded at the headwaters of the
River Tiefy
by
Rhys ap Gruffudd
, the reigning prince of South Wales.
11th-century Norwegian king
Olaf II
is cannonized as
Saing Olaf
, and will eventually become the
patron saint
of
Norway
.
The earliest presently surviving manuscript of the
Life of Gildas
by
Caradoc of Llancarfan
is transcribed.
Marie de France
marries
Henry de Champagne
, becoming
Marie de Champagne
.
These people were born in 1164:
Japanese Emperor
Rokujo
.
Japanese samurai warrior
Hatakeyama Shigetada
, a leading vassal of
Minamoto Yoritomo
.
Sancha of Castile
, daughter of Castilian king
Alfonso VII
and future queen of Aragonian king
Alfonso II
.
Duke of Swabia
Frederick V
.
These people died in 1164:
Héloïse
, secret lover and wife of French theologian
Peter Abelard
. Together,
Abelard and Héloïse
conducted one of the most celebrated tragic love affairs in Western literature.
Frederick Barbarossa
's antipope
Victor IV
, succeeded by Antipope
Paschal III
.
Japanese Emperor
Sutoku
.
Fujiwara regent
Fujiwara Tadamichi
.
Margrave of
Styria
Ottokar III
.
Svyatoslav Olgovich
, Prince of
Novgorod-Seversky
.
English scholar of Arabic
Adelard of Bath
.
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Marie de Champagne
Jinshin War
Kyoto
1227
Shirkuh
Novgorod-Seversky
Sudoku
1537
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