1120s in England explained

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		1120s		1140s

Events from the 1120s in England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry I

Events

• 1120
  • 25 November – sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel off Barfleur. King Henry I of England's only legitimate son, William Adelin, is among 300 who drown.^[1]
• 1121
  • 24 January – Henry I marries Adeliza of Louvain at Windsor Castle.
  • June – Reading Abbey founded by Henry I.^[2]
  • Plympton Priory in Devon re-founded as an Augustinian house by William Warelwast, Bishop of Exeter.^[3]
  • Foss Dyke scoured.
• 1122
  • Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, established as an Augustinian house.
• 1123
  • 18 February – William de Corbeil enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 26 August – first Bishop of Bath (Godfrey) consecrated.
  • Louis VI of France supports rebels against English rule in Normandy.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital in London founded^[1] by Rahere.
• 1124
  • Henry I unsuccessfully invades the Kingdom of France, having defeated rebels in Normandy.
  • Christmas – moneyers punished by castration following runaway inflation.^[4]
• 1125
  • William of Malmesbury completes his histories of England, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum.
• 1126
  • Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York declared equal.
  • 25 December – Henry I asks his nobles to recognise Empress Matilda as his heir.^[5]
• 1127
  • 1 January – English nobles accept Matilda as heir.
• 1128
  • 17 June – the dowager Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to the Count of Anjou, in Le Mans.
  • Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley in Surrey.^[6]
• 1129
  • 4 October – Henry of Blois becomes Bishop of Winchester, an office which he will hold until his death in 1171.^[7]

Births

• 1125
  • Renaud de Courtenay, noble (died 1194)

Deaths

• 1120
  • 25 November – White Ship
    • William Adelin, son of Henry I (born 1103)
    • Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, Anglo-Norman noble and soldier (born 1094)
    • Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England
• 1122
  • 20 October – Ralph d'Escures, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1124
  • 15 March – Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester (born 1040, France)
• 1126
  • Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (born 1052)
• 1128
  • 5 September – Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham
• 1129
  • January – Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester (born 1074, France)
  • Symeon of Durham, chronicler

Notes and References

1. Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8. 118–120.
2. Web site: Reading Abbey. Catholic Encyclopedia. 2007-12-19.
3. Book: Fizzard, A. D.. Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages. 2007.
4. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
5. Web site: British History Timeline, Norman Britain. BBC History. 2007-12-19.
6. Web site: Waverley Abbey . . 2007-12-19 .
7. Book: Palmer, Alan. Palmer. Veronica. 1992. The Chronology of British History. Century Ltd. London. 60–62. 0-7126-5616-2.