Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1136: Jongleur Palla at the Toledo...

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1205/1210, author of lais in Anglo-Norman Jean Bodel Undated troubadors Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s) Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s) Marcabru (fl...

Salerno and other cities that have resisted him. Burgsteinfurt Castle is built in what is now Steinfurt (modern Germany). Jin–Song War: Emperor Gao Zong of...

market in Paris. May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded in Wales by Cistercian monks in the Wye Valley. Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in Jiangsu...

Kara Arslan – who has made an alliance with Joscelin II, count of Edessa. In support of the alliance Joscelin marches out of Edessa with a Crusader army...

of Poland has his half-brother Zbigniew blinded and thrown into a dungeon in Tyniec Abbey. Archbishop Martin I excommunicates Bolesław for committing this...

to retreat to Salerno. Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire. June – A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000...

weeks (due to constant Seljuk skirmishes) forced to fall back on Afamiya in northern Syria. Winter – Crusaders, led by Baldwin I, besiege Tyre, without...

the fray under cover of the darkness. March – The French crusaders are left in Adalia; lack of available shipping obliges Louis VII to divide his forces...

IV, count of Barcelona, launches a raid against Almoravid-held territories in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), and pillages the country all the way to Cadiz....

written in the 1130s, which popularized the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. The code of chivalry that developed in medieval...

troubadour poetry. Generally regarded as the most important troubadour in both poetry and music, his 18 extant melodies of 45 known poems in total is the...

first Margrave. July – Henry II launches a campaign against Owain Gwynedd in north Wales. Although Owain defeats him at the Battle of Ewloe he eventually...

parataxis (a defensive formation, consisting of a hollow square, with the baggage in the centre). During the battle, the Seljuk Turks mount several attacks on...

in royal banquets to the Korean court of Goryeo, by request from King Yejong. November 29 – A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the...

envoys to Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk ruler of Mosul, to seek his protection in exchange of Damascus. Zengi crosses the Euphrates, receiving the surrender...

led before a hostile crowd and publicly blinded. Nur al-Din puts him in prison in the Citadel of Aleppo. Battle of Aintab: A Crusader army led by King...

had an affair or committed suicide. After her death, her parents burned poetry that she had written. There is no firm evidence of Zhu's existence. Her...

First Council of the Lateran convenes in Rome; it confirms the 1122 Concordat of Worms and demands clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church. The coronation...

Charles Yim-tze (1999). Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 89. ISBN 9780804732314...

by Turkish forces led by Belek Ghazi near Saruj in northern Syria. Belek offers Joscelin liberty in return for the cession of Edessa. He refuses to accept...

way of life; in this he emphasized the virtue of literary study. He also provided books of hymns he had composed, and in the early 1130s he and Héloïse...

knights to Bordeaux, along with Abbot Suger in charge of the wedding arrangements. Louis and Eleanor are married in the Cathedral of Saint-André. France unites...

in Rome. Arnold of Brescia is exiled by Adrian IV and forced to flee. He is arrested by imperial forces; hanged and his body burned at the stake in Rome...

Dublin in Ireland. Cu Faifne mac Congalaig becomes King of Uí Failghe in Ireland. Maelsechlainn Ua Faelain becomes King of the Déisi Muman in Ireland...

(1115–1234). In 1279, the Mongol Yuan dynasty conquered the Song. Yellow River course changes Major Yellow River course changes Liao dynasty invasion in 1004...

triumphant entry at Aleppo, Crusader prisoners are dragged in chains – where they are tortured to death in the streets. The massacre leads to the name of the...

while the Venetians are on a naval expedition. Doge Ordelafo Faliero dies in battle (near Zadar) against the Hungarians. Faliero is succeeded by Domenico...

The massacre lasts about three weeks; on the rumor of a Byzantine fleet in the offing, Raynald gives the order for embarkation. The Crusader ships are...