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1133 CE

Battle of Fraga: The Castellan troops led by King Alfonso I (the Battler) defeat the Almoravid army, thanks to a timely intervention of a Norman Crusader army from Tarragona, led by Robert Bordet. Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona, launches a raid against Almoravid-held territories in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), and pillages the country all the way to Cádiz. Spring – A German expeditionary force, led by King Lothair III, marches into northern Italy, and arrives at Rome, after a 6-month journey across the Alps. Accompanied by Bernard of Clairvaux, French abbot and Doctor of the Church, Lothair is crowned by Pope Innocent II as Holy Roman Emperor at the Church of the Lateran, on June 4. He receives as papal fiefs the vast estates of Matilda, former margravine of Tuscany, which he secures for his daughter Gertrude of Süpplingenburg and her husband, Duke Henry X (the Proud) of Bavaria.

Conflict & Security

  • July 17 – Battle of Fraga: The Castellan troops led by King Alfonso I (the Battler) defeat the Almoravid army, thanks to a timely intervention of a Norman Crusader army from Tarragona, led by Robert Bordet.source
  • Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona, launches a raid against Almoravid-held territories in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), and pillages the country all the way to Cádiz.source

Religion & Belief

  • Antipope Anacletus II forces Innocent II out of Rome following the departure of Lothair III. Innocent flees and takes a ship to Pisa.source
  • Rijnsburg Abbey is founded by Petronilla of Lorraine, countess and regent of Holland.source
  • Construction of the chapter house at Durham Cathedral which is completed in 1140.source
  • Spring – A German expeditionary force, led by King Lothair III, marches into northern Italy, and arrives at Rome, after a 6-month journey across the Alps. Accompanied by Bernard of Clairvaux, French abbot and Doctor of the Church, Lothair is crowned by Pope Innocent II as Holy Roman Emperor at the Church of the Lateran, on June 4. He receives as papal fiefs the vast estates of Matilda, former margravine of Tuscany, which he secures for his daughter Gertrude of Süpplingenburg and her husband, Duke Henry X (the Proud) of Bavaria.source
  • The first convent on Iceland, the Þingeyraklaustur, is inaugurated at a monastery of the Order of Saint Benedict (located in Þingeyrar).source
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth, an English cleric, writes the chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae.source

Births

  • February 23 – Al-Zafir, Fatimid caliph (d. 1154)source
  • March 5 – Henry II (Curtmantle), king of England (d. 1189)source
  • May 13 – Hōnen, Japanese religious reformer (d. 1212)source
  • Zhang Shi, Chinese Confucian scholar (d. 1181)source
  • Sigurd II (or Sigurd Munn), king of Norway (d. 1155)source
  • Thorlak Thorhallsson, Icelandic bishop (d. 1193)source
  • Stephen IV, king of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1165)source
  • Ralph de Sudeley, English nobleman (d. 1192)source
  • Urraca of Castile, queen of Navarre (d. 1179)source
  • Andronikos Doukas Angelos, Byzantine aristocratsource
  • Blanche of Navarre, Queen of Castile (d.1156)source
  • Jean de Gisors, Norman nobleman (d. 1220)source
  • Faidiva of Toulouse, countess of Savoy (d. 1154)source
  • Andronikos Kontostephanos, Byzantine aristocratsource

Deaths

  • February 19 – Irene Doukaina, Byzantine empress (b. 1066)source
  • May 1 – Manegold von Mammern, German abbotsource
  • December 4 – Bernard degli Uberti, Italian bishopsource
  • December 18 – Hildebert, French hagiographer (b. 1055)source
  • December 21 – Guigues III (the Old), French noblemansource
  • þorlákur Runólfsson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1086)source
  • William of Zardana (or Saône), French noblemansource
  • Gregory of Catino, Italian monk and historian (b. 1060)source
  • Dirmicius of Regensburg, Irish monk and abbotsource