Explore 44 historical events from 1130–1139.
Hugo de Paganis, commonly known in French as Hugues de Payens or Payns, was the co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
Hugues de Payens, first Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born c
Alfonso VII, called the Emperor, became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126. Alfonso, born Alfonso Raimúndez, first used the title Emperor of All Spain…
Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in León Cathedral as Imperator totius Hispaniae (Emperor of all of Spain)
Abu Mansur al-Faḍl ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir better known by his regnal name Al-Mustarshid Billah was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1118 to 1135. He was son of his predecessor, c…
Al-Mustarshid, Abbasid caliph (born 1092)
Emperor Huizong of Song, personal name Zhao Ji, was the eighth emperor of the Song dynasty of China and the penultimate emperor of the Northern Song dynasty. He was also a very wel…
Emperor Huizong of Song (born 1082)
Geoffrey VI was Count of Nantes from 1156 to 1158. He was also known as Geoffrey of Anjou and Geoffrey FitzEmpress. He was the son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda. His …
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (died 1158)
Magnus the Strong, also known as Magnus Nilsson, was a Danish duke who ruled Götaland in southern Sweden from the 1120s to c. 1132. It is disputed whether he was elected king by th…
Magnus Nielsen (born 1106), Danish duke
Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near th…
The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bis
Norbert of Xanten, O. Praem, also known as Norbert Gennep, was a German Catholic bishop who was the Archbishop of Magdeburg, founder of the Premonstratensian order of canons regula…
Norbert of Xanten, German bishop and saint (born 1060)
Niels was the King of Denmark from 1104 to 1134. Niels succeeded his brother Eric Evergood and is presumed to have been the youngest son of King Sweyn II Estridson. King Niels acti…
Niels, king of Denmark (born 1065)
Irene of Hungary was the Byzantine empress by marriage to John II Komnenos. The Byzantine Empire was at its height during this period, and her husband, John II, has been regarded a…
Irene of Hungary, Byzantine empress (born 1088)
Alfonso I, called the Battler or the Warrior, was King of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his br…
Alfonso the Battler, Spanish emperor (born 1073)
Abū aṣ-Ṣalt Umayya ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī aṣ-Ṣalt ad-Dānī al-Andalusī, known in Latin as Albuzale, was an Andalusian-Arab polymath who wrote about pharmacology, geometry, Aristo…
Abu al-Salt, Andalusian polymath
The Battle of Nocera or Scafati was the first major battle of Roger II of Sicily and the first of his two major defeats at the hands of Count Ranulf of Alife.
Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
Sancho Garcés VI, called the Wise was King of Navarre from 1150 until his death in 1194. He was the first monarch to officially drop the title of King of Pamplona in favour of King…
Sancho VI, king of Navarre (died 1194)
Adjutor is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He is credited to be the patron saint of swimmers, boaters, and drowning victims, and the patron saint of Vernon, France. Ad…
Adjutor, French knight and saint
Baldwin II, also known as Baldwin of Bourcq, was the count of Edessa from 1100 to 1118 and the king of Jerusalem from 1118 until his death. He accompanied his kinsmen, the brothers…
King Baldwin II of Jerusalem
Hervey le Breton was a Breton cleric who became Bishop of Bangor in Wales and later Bishop of Ely in England. Appointed to Bangor by King William II of England, when the Normans we…
Hervey le Breton, bishop of Bangor and Ely
This is a list of the Shi'ite caliphs of the Arab Fatimid dynasty (909–1171). The caliphs were also regarded as the imams of the Isma'ili branch of Shi'a Islam.
Fatimid Caliph al-Amir is assassinated.
Zhu Xi, formerly romanized Chu Hsi, was a Chinese philosopher, historian, politician, poet, and calligrapher of the Southern Song dynasty. As a leading figure in the development of…
Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (died 1200)
Pedro González de Lara was a Castilian magnate. He served Alfonso VI as a young man, and later became the lover of Alfonso's heiress, Queen Urraca. He may have joined the First Cr…
Pedro González de Lara, Castilian magnate