1128 Explained

Year 1128 (MCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Hungarian War: Emperor John II (Komnenos) defeats the Hungarians and their Serbian allies at the fortress of Haram (or Chramon), which is modern-day Nova Palanka.^[1]

Europe

• June 24  - Battle of São Mamede: Count Alfonso I (Henriques) defeats the forces led by his mother, Queen Theresa of Portugal, near Guimarães, and gains control of the county. Alfonso styles himself "Prince of Portugal".
• June 29  - Conrad III, anti-king of Germany, is crowned "King of Italy" by Archbishop Anselmo della Pusterla at Monza in Lombardy.
• July 27  - The city of Bruges (modern Belgium) is founded. It receives its city charter – as well new walls and canals are built.
• Pope Honorius II invests Roger II of Sicily as duke of Apulia at Benevento, after his failure to form an coalition against Roger.
• King Louis VI (the Fat) of France agrees to the accession of Thierry of Alsace (or Theoderic), as count of Flanders.

England

• June 17  - King Henry I marries his only legitimate daughter, dowager Empress Matilda, to the 14-year-old Geoffrey V (the Fair), count of Anjou.

Britain

• Hugues de Payens, French Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Templar, visits both England and Scotland, where he raises men and money for the Order.

Asia

• Jin–Song War: Emperor Gao Zong of the Song Dynasty establishes a new capital at Yangzhou, while the government retreats south, after Jurchen forces capture the previous capital of Kaifeng, in the Jingkang Incident.
• Forces of the Kingdom of Champa invade Vietnam.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• November 24  - Waverley Abbey is founded by Bishop William Giffard. The first abbot and 12 Cistercian monks are brought from L'Aumône Abbey in Normandy.^[3]
• Honorius II recognizes and confirms the Order of the Knights Templar. The French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux codifies the rule of the Order.^[4]
• Holyrood Abbey is founded in Edinburgh by King David I of Scotland.
• Kelso Abbey is founded by Scottish monks of the Tironensian Order.

Births

• March 18  - Stephen of Tournai, French bishop (d. 1203)
• Absalon, Danish archbishop and statesman (d. 1201)
• Adolf II, count of Schauenburg and Holstein (d. 1164)
• Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet (approximate date)
• Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Walid, Arab theologian (d. 1215)
• Constance of Hauteville, princess of Antioch (d. 1163)
• John Doukas (Komnenos), Byzantine governor (d. 1176)
• John Kontostephanos, Byzantine aristocrat (approximate date)
• Lorcán Ua Tuathail, Irish archbishop of Dublin (d. 1180)
• Ludwig II (the Iron), landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1172)
• Muhammad II ibn Mahmud, Seljuk sultan (d. 1159)
• Ruzbihan Baqli, Persian poet and mystic (d. 1209)
• Taira no Norimori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1185)

Deaths

• January 1  - Albero I, prince-bishop of Liège (b. 1070)
• February 12  - Toghtekin, Turkish ruler of Damascus
• June 2  - Pier Leoni (or Petrus Leo), Roman consul
• July 20  - Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi, Fatimid vizier (b. c. 1086)
• July 28  - William Clito, count of Flanders (b. 1102)
• September 5  - Ranulf Flambard, bishop of Durham
• December 4  - Henry II, German nobleman (b. 1102)
• December 15  - Fulco I d'Este, Lombard nobleman
• Abu Ibrahim ibn Barun, Andalusian Jewish rabbi
• Conaing Ua Beigléighinn, Irish monk and abbot
• Constantine I of Torres, ruler (judge) of Logudoro
• Fulcher of Chartres, French priest and chronicler (b. 1059)
• Fujiwara no Kiyohira, Japanese nobleman (b. 1056)
• Geoffrey Brito (or le Breton), archbishop of Rouen
• Ibn Tumart, Almoravid political leader (or 1130)
• Jimena Muñoz (or Muñiz), Spanish noblewoman
• Rogvolod Vseslavich (Boris), prince of Polotsk
• Warmund (or Gormond), patriarch of Jerusalem

Notes and References

1. Angold, Michael (1997). The Byzantine Empire, 1025–1204: A Political History, p. 153. .
2. Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, pp. 140–141. Trans. Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. .
3. Book: 'House of Cistercian monks: Abbey of waverley', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2. 1967. Victoria County History. 77-89. H.E. Malden.
4. Fletcher. R. A.. Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 1987. 37. 5. 31–47 [45]. 3679149.