corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources...

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lais in Anglo-Norman Jean Bodel Undated troubadors Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s) Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s) Marcabru (fl. 1140s and 1150s)...

French crusade song written between April 1146 and June 1147. The title (in fact, the incipit) translated "Knights, you are under sure protection". The...

and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism. He wrote a collection of lyrical poems and number of long poems in the philosophical tradition of Islamic...

retired Emperor Nijō (二条院讃岐, Nijō-in no Sanuki, c. 1141 – 1217) was a Japanese waka poet and noblewoman active in the late-Heian and early-Kamakura period...

Yusuf is mentioned once by Nizami in his poetry. In the same verse, Nizami mentions his grandfather's name as Zakki. In part of the same verse, some have...

Bertran de Born (Occitan: [beɾˈtɾan de ˈbɔɾn]; 1140s – by 1215) was a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the...

By the 1140s, the Seljuk Empire began to decline in power and influence, and was eventually supplanted in the east by the Khwarazmian Empire in 1194 and...

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....

approaches the city. Zengi raises the siege after hearing rumours of trouble in Mosul. He rushes back with his army to take control. There, Zengi is praised...

on the obverse of Crusader coins, e.g. in coins of the County of Tripoli minted under Raymond II or III c. 1140s–1160s show an "eight-rayed star with pellets...

strife between him and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in order that he may dally in western Herefordshire with his mistress, Rosamund Clifford,...

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

treaty. Autumn – William IV, Count of Nevers, arrives in Palestine with a contingent of elite knights. In Jerusalem he is present during a council with Amalric...

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...

cuts were made in teaching personnel, and the national university itself was reduced in size. The exception to this was in the 1140s when the court played...

on the Yangtze River, between the Jin dynasty and the Song dynasty in China result in two pivotal Song naval victories. December 15 – Wanyan Liang, Chinese...

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...

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...

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...

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...

display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Count Hugh II (du Puiset), in alliance with the Egyptian city of Ascalon, revolts against King Fulk V of...

place after a year of foreshocks. Its name is taken from the city of Hama, in west-central Syria (then under Seljuk rule), where the most casualties are...

confronts Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk ruler (atabeg) of Mosul, near Dara'a in southern Syria. Turkish forces under Mu'in al-Din (supported by the Crusaders)...

date): Churchman Richard FitzNeal is appointed Lord High Treasurer in England, in charge of Henry II of England's Exchequer, an office he will hold for...

(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...

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...

is known of his life. Alain entered the schools no earlier than the late 1140s; first attending the school at Paris, and then at Chartres. He probably...

King Baldwin III and his mother, Queen Melisende, are called to intervene in a dispute between Baldwin's aunt Hodierna and her husband Raymond II, count...