1137

This page relates to the year 1137 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Beginning of the reign of Lyan-tone, king of the Vietnam (fine in 1175).
the khan of the Kara Khitaï Ye-liu Ta-che occupies Kachgar, Khotan, overcomes the sovereign of Samarkand and is made proclaim Kür-Khan (universal). The sultan Saljûqide Sanjar, suzerain of Transoxiane, intervenes but is beaten.

June: Zanki besieges Homs (Emèse), controlled by the Damas cenes. The governor of the city calls upon the Francs. Zanki is turned over against them, and crushes them under the walls of Baarin. Zanki obtains Foulque V of Anjou, besieged in Montferrand, the rendering of the fortified town and that of Rafanée.
August: Jean II Comnène reconquers the Cilicie and seizes Antioche. Raymond of Poitiers must swear to him fidelity (1137 - 1142).

August 11th, Huesca: Raimond Berenger IV, count de Barcelone becomes prince of Aragon by its engagement to Pétronille, the girl of Ramire II of Aragon, three years old (weddings in 1150).
November 13rd: Abdication of Ramire II of Aragon, which bequeaths its kingdom to his/her daughter Pétronille and her husband. Union of the Catalonia and the Aragon. Aragon turns to the sea.

February 3rd: Bégard founds the Abbaye Cistercien of Saint-Aubin of Wood, with Plédéliac, in the current department of the Coast-with Armor.
July 25th: Marriage of Louis VII and Aliénor of Aquitaine. It brings the Poitou, the Saintonge, the Angoumois, the Marche, the the Limousin, the Périgord, the Guyenne and the Gascogne to him.
: Died of Louis VI and beginning of the reign of Louis VII, the Young person, king de France (fine in 1180). Suger remains adviser of the king.

Robert Ier de Dreux receives, of his/her father, Louis VI, in prerogative, the Comté of Dreux.
Etienne of Blois, king d' Angleterre, pays homage to king de France for the Duché of Normandy.
the Comté of Drill enters the mobility of the Royaume of France.

December: Henri Superb the is invested duchy of Saxony by Lothaire III (fine in 1138).

the Norman ones of Roger II of Sicily take the duchy of Naples and the the Abruzzi (1137 - 1140).
Roger II promises in Salernitains to obtain a reduction in the rights which they paid with Alexandria. It concluded a few years after a treaty with the caliph from Egypt.

September 18th: Assassination of Erik II Emune in Ribe. Erik Lam succeeds to him, but becomes monk without to have exerted real power (1147). The Denmark, impoverished by the wars against the Wendes the dynastic, fights and the jacqueries is likely to fall under Germanic supervision.

Denmark: First election of a bishop by the only clerks without official intervention of the king.

In the South of France, the Troubadour Marcabru composes the Song of the laundrette which exhorts with the Croisade.
the construction of the church Saint-Denis with Paris by Suger mark the beginning of the architectural period Gothic.
Guillaume X of Aquitaine makes a pilgrimage with Compostelle.
Blooming of the poetry of the Troubadour S under the influence of Aliénor of Aquitaine.

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