1163
It's been a while... but here is another history lesson. What has been recorded in the inestimable annals of Wikipedia for the year 1163AD?
The Law of Succession is introduced in Norway in the middle of their civil war. Nothing like a war to help straighten out legal concerns - or to have laws introduced so that particular claimants are rendered illegal or illegitimate. This is likely to come up again in another war over succession soon...
Over to the affairs of the Church. The Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics at the Council of Tours under Pope Alexander III, who seems to take advantage of being in France to set the first stone of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral. Further east, Loccum Abbey is founded in Hanover as a Cistercian house.
Beyond Europe, the Egyptian empire is resurrected for 10 days! That is all that Wikipedia says about it, but what an astonishing claim! My initial assumption was that this meant the ancient Egyptian empire, which would have been truly astonishing, but I had forgotten the context of the Crusades and the Muslim campaigns in the area. I'm still not sure what this refers to!
Deaths of note include Ladislaus II the King of Hungary, Constance of Antioch (poor woman had everyone organising possible marriages for her from the age of 4!), Abd al-Mumin the founder of the Almohad empire (northern Africa and southern Spain and Portugal), and Dahui Zonggao who was a Chinese Zen Buddhist monk.
So much happened! But this time, at least, the pope survived the year!
The Law of Succession is introduced in Norway in the middle of their civil war. Nothing like a war to help straighten out legal concerns - or to have laws introduced so that particular claimants are rendered illegal or illegitimate. This is likely to come up again in another war over succession soon...
Over to the affairs of the Church. The Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics at the Council of Tours under Pope Alexander III, who seems to take advantage of being in France to set the first stone of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral. Further east, Loccum Abbey is founded in Hanover as a Cistercian house.
Beyond Europe, the Egyptian empire is resurrected for 10 days! That is all that Wikipedia says about it, but what an astonishing claim! My initial assumption was that this meant the ancient Egyptian empire, which would have been truly astonishing, but I had forgotten the context of the Crusades and the Muslim campaigns in the area. I'm still not sure what this refers to!
Deaths of note include Ladislaus II the King of Hungary, Constance of Antioch (poor woman had everyone organising possible marriages for her from the age of 4!), Abd al-Mumin the founder of the Almohad empire (northern Africa and southern Spain and Portugal), and Dahui Zonggao who was a Chinese Zen Buddhist monk.
So much happened! But this time, at least, the pope survived the year!
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