Crusades Timeline: 1121-1144
Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.
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1095-1099 •
1100-1120 •
1121-1144 •
1145-1163 •
1164-1187 •
1188-1197 •
1198-1214 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
| Events in Outremer | Events in Europe | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1121 | Apr | Calixtus captures the anti-pope Gregory VIII | |
| Jun | Calixtus returns to Rome | ||
| Sep 29 | Diet of Würzburg, Henry V makes peace wth the rebels | ||
| Duke Boleslav III of Poland captures Stettin | |||
| Frederick I born | |||
| Peter Abelard condemned at Council of Soissons | |||
| 1122 | Sep 23 | Concordat of Worms, official end of the Investiture Controversy | |
| Greeks exterminate the Petchenegs | |||
| King David III of Georgia takes Tiflis from the Muslims | |||
| Peter Abelard writes Sic et Non | |||
| 1123 | Apr 18 | Baldwin II captured by Balak | |
| Mar 18 | to Apr 5, First Lateran Council | ||
| May 29 | Franks defeat Egyptians at Ibelin | ||
| 1124 | Apr 22 | King Alexander I of Scotland dies; succeeded by his brother David | |
| May 6 | Death of Balak, Emir of Aleppo | ||
| Jun | Baldwin released for ransom | ||
| Jul 7 | Egyptians surrender Tyre to Baldwin | ||
| Dec 13 | Death of Pope Calixtus II | ||
| Dec 16 | Election of Pope Honorius II | ||
| Death of al-Haran ibn-al-Sabbah, founder of the Assassins | |||
| Lothar of Saxony destroys the Wendish temple at Rethra | |||
| Otto of Bamberg goes on mission to Pomerania | |||
| 1125 | May | Baldwin defeats il-Bursuq of Mosul at Azaz | |
| May 23 | Emperor Henry V dies | ||
| Aug 30 | Lothar of Saxony and Supplinburg elected King of the Romans | ||
| Archbishop Raymond of Toledo begins translation of Aristotle into Latin | |||
| Death of King David of Georgia; succeeded by his son Demetrius I | |||
| 1126 | St. Bernard writes On the Love of God | ||
| Averroës born (d. 1198) | |||
| 1127 | Mar 2 | Murder of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders; King Louis VI names William Clito as successor, causing a rebellion | |
| Jul 20 | Duke William I of Apulia dies childless; Roger of Sicily inherits | ||
| Dec 18 | Lothar's enemies elect Conrad of Hohenstaufen as King of the Romans | ||
| Stephen II of Hungary invades Byzantium, capturing Belgrade and Sofia | |||
| Charter of the town of St. Omer | |||
| 1128 | Jun 17 | Matilda, widow of Henry V, marries Geoffrey Plantagent of Anjou | |
| Jun 29 | Conrad of Hohenstaufen crowned King of Italy | ||
| Jul 27 | William Clito killed; Thierry of Alsace named new count of Flanders | ||
| Aug 22 | Pope Honorius crowns Roger duke of Apulia | ||
| James of Venice translates Aristotle's Organon | |||
| First Cistercian house in England founded at Waverley | |||
| 1129 | May | Fulk of Anjou marries Baldwin's daughter Melisende; his son by a previous marriage is Geoffrey, who now becomes Duke | |
| Nov | Baldwin takes possession of the Assassin fortress of Banyas by arrangement, but his attack on Damascus fails | ||
| Svenker I elected King of Sweden (-1150) | |||
| Henry the Lion born (-1195) | |||
| 1130 | Feb | Bohemond II of Antioch and his army destroyed by Danismends on the Jihan | |
| Feb 13 | Pope Honorius II dies; on the same day are elected Innocent II and Anacletus II; the latter is Roger of Sicily's candidate, and Innocent is forced to leave Rome | ||
| Mar 26 | Death of King Sigurd I of Norway; succeeded by his son Magnus IV the Blind | ||
| Dec 25 | Roger II crowned King of Sicily by Pope Anacletus II | ||
| Chansons des Chétifs, a romance of the First Crusade | |||
| Earliest record of breast-strap harness for horses | |||
| First surviving Pipe Roll from the English Exchequer | |||
| 1131 | Mar 22 | Lothar recognizes Innocent as pope at Liège | |
| Aig 21 | Death of Baldwin II; Fulk of Anjou succeeds | ||
| Sep 8 | English barons confirm their allegiance to Matilda as Henry I's heir | ||
| Oct 25 | Pope Innocent crowns Louis VII King of France | ||
| 1132 | Sep | Lothar invades Italy to return Innocent to Rome | |
| 1133 | Feb 10 | Robert Curthose dies | |
| Mar | Henry II of England born | ||
| Jun 4 | Lothar III crowned Emperor at Rome by Innocent II | ||
| Aug | Lothar returns to Germany | ||
| 1134 | Lothar grants Margravate of Brandenburg to Albert the Bear | ||
| North tower of Chartres Cathedral begun; Gothic architecture | |||
| 1135 | Mar | Conrad and Frederick Hohenstaufen submit to Lothar | |
| Jun 25 | King Niels of Denmark murdered | ||
| Dec 1 | Death of Henry I of England | ||
| Dec 14 | Harold IV of Norway murdered by his brother Sigurd | ||
| Dec 26 | Stephen of Blois becomes King of England | ||
| 1136 | Jan | Rebellion in Wales | |
| May | King Louis invests King Stephen as Duke of Normandy | ||
| Aug | Lothar makes Henry of Bavaria Duke of Saxony as well | ||
| Lothar invades Italy and overruns Apulia and Calabria | |||
| 1137 | Jul 22 | Louis VII marries Eleanor of Aquitaine | |
| Aug | King Fulk surrenders Montferrand to Zangi of Mosul | ||
| Aug 1 | Louis VI of France dies | ||
| Aug 8 | Louis VII crowned as Duke of Aquitaine | ||
| Aug 29 | John II Comnenus attacks Antioch, but withdraws when Prince Raymond pays homage | ||
| Sep 18 | Erik II of Denmark murdered | ||
| Dec 4 | Emperor Lothar dies | ||
| Owain the Great becomes King of Gwynedd (Wales) | |||
| Geoffrey of Monmouth writes History of the Kings of Britain | |||
| 1138 | Jan 25 | Anti-pope Anacletus II dies | |
| Mar 3 | Conrad of Hohenstaufen elected King of the Romans | ||
| Apr 20 | John II Comnenus tries and fails to take Aleppo | ||
| May | Rebellion against King Stephen of England begins | ||
| Jun | Zangi of Mosul takes Homs | ||
| Saladin born | |||
| Boleslav III dies while invading Russia; civil war ensues in Poland | |||
| 1139 | Apr | Pope Innocent II excommunicates Roger of Sicily | |
| Apr 20 | Arnold of Brescia condemned by Second Lateran Council | ||
| Jul 22 | Innocent defeated and captured by Roger of Sicily; gains his freedom by recognizing Roger as king | ||
| Sep 30 | Matilda, daughter of Henry I, invades England | ||
| Oct 20 | Death of Henry the Proud; Henry the Lion succeeds, though Conrad had granted Bavaria to Leopold of Austria and Saxony to Albert the Bear | ||
| Gratian publishes the Decretum | |||
| 1140 | St. Gotthard pass opened | ||
| Peter Abelard condemned at Council of Sens | |||
| 1141 | Feb 2 | Robert of Gloucester defeats and captures Stephen at Lincoln | |
| Feb 16 | Death of Béla II King of Hungary | ||
| Nov 1 | King Stephen of England released | ||
| Orderic Vitalis publishes Historia Ecclestiastica | |||
| 1142 | Apr 21 | Peter Abelard dies | |
| May | Conrad grants Saxony to Henry the Lion | ||
| France placed under interdict by Innocent II | |||
| William of Malmesbury dies | |||
| 1143 | Apr 8 | Emperor John II Comnenus dies; succeeded by his son Manuel I | |
| Sep 24 | Death of Pope Innocent II | ||
| Sep 26 | Election of Pope Celestine II | ||
| Nov 10 | Death of Fulk of Anjou, King of Jerusalem | ||
| 1144 | Mar 8 | Death of Pope Celestine II | |
| Mar 12 | Election of Pope Lucius II | ||
| Apr 23 | Geoffrey of Anjou takes Rouen, completing his conquest of Normandy | ||
| Dec 25 | Zangi of Mosul captures Edessa, the first of the Crusader States to fall. | ||