1129

This page relates to the year 1129 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the Djürchet complete the conquest of the north of the China then cross the Yangzi Jiang in two places until the Jiangxi and with Nankin (1129 - 1130).

the atabek of Damas Bouri makes put at dead the vizier Al-Mazdaghani, guard of the Assassins (batinis). The partisans of the sect are massacred by crowd. Their chiefs are crucifiés on the crenels of the ramparts. According to the chronicler Ibn Al-Athir, Al-Mazdaghani and the Assassins would have liked to deliver the city to the Francs, by exchanging it against Tyr, and it is by being informed of this plot that Bouri would have acts. Rare the batinis surviving will settle in Palestine, under the protection of Baudouin II of Jerusalem, after him to have delivered the fortress of Baniyas, with the foot of the Mont Hermon, on the road between Jerusalem and Damas.
A few weeks later, an army of 10.000 riders and frank infantrymen come from Palestine, of Antioche, Edesse and Tripoli is presented in front of Damas. Bouri recruits with haste some bands of nomads Turkish and some Arab tribes to push back the attack. Several thousands of Francs, which went to forage in the plain of the Ghouta, are surprised by an attack. Baudouin gives up the part. He gathers his troops for a new attempt, when a pouring rain falls down on the area, transforming it into an immense mud lake (at the beginning of September). Not being able more to advance, Baudouin orders the retirement.

Zanki, the Master of Alep, invites Bouri Damas to take part in a forwarding against the Francs (at the end of 1129). Sawinj, wire of Bouri, arrives at Alep with 500 riders. Zanki takes them as an hostage and threat to kill them if Bouri holds head to him. Sawinj will be slackened only two years later.

January 13rd: Opening of the Council of Troyes, convened by the pope Honorius II at the request of Hugues de Payns, to officially recognize the Order of the Temple, whose rule, written by Saint-Bernard, is approved by the council.

Geoffroy V Plantagenêt the Beautiful one becomes Count d' Anjou (fine in 1150).
the Danish jarl of the Slesvig, Knud Lavard, subjects the Obodrites and is made proclaim their king, under the suzerainty of the emperor Lothaire II.

the community of the abbey of woman of Argenteuil is dissolved. The prioress Héloïse, leads part of the moniales in Champagne in a hermitage founded by Abélard under the vocation of the Paraclet (Holy Spirit consolator). Héloïse becomes abbess of the new monastery.

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