1157

This page relates to the year 1157 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Reign of Tughrul III, Persian sultan Saljûqide of (fine in 1194).
the Turk Atsiz proclaims Chah of the Khârezm with died of Sanjar. His/her son Arslan succeeds to him (fine in 1172).

June 19th: Battle of the lake Méron, or Battle of the Ford of Jacob, demolished Templiers of which the Large-Master Bertrand de Blanquefort is made prisoner by Nur AD-DIN.
Nur AD-DIN subdues a revolt Chiite with Alep.
August: A Earthquake devastates the Syria. With Alep, several towers of the wall collapse and the terrorized population disperses in the campaigns. With Harran, the ground splits and discovers the vestiges of an old city. The seism reached Tripoli, Beirut, Tyr, Homs, Maara, or one counts neither deaths any more nor the destroyed buildings. Hama and Chayzar is particularly touched. Chayzar, quoted of Mouqidhites, is immediately attacked and plundered, as well by the Assassins as by the Francs, before being taken by the army of Alep.
Nur AD-DIN Mahmud falls ill in October whereas it supervises the rebuilding of the walls of the destroyed cities. There remains one year and half between the life and death. The Francs benefit from it to occupy some fortresses and razzier the surroundings of Damas.

With died of Alphonse VII of Castille, its sons divide its kingdom: Sanche III reigns on Castille (fine in 1158) and Ferdinand II on the León (fine in 1188).

Henri II of England obtains from the king of Scotland the restitution of the counties of Northumbrie, Westmorland and Cumbrie, lost during the wars between Etienne of Blois and Mathilde.
War of the England against the Wales (fine in 1172).

May 15th: Beginning of the reign of Andrei Bogolioubski, large prince of Rostov - Souzdal (fine in 1174). It reinforces its new capital, Vladimir, on the Kliazma.

the Concile of Rheims defines a corrective procedure against the heretics.
Rupture enters the pope and the emperor (Lutte of priesthood and the Empire). After being itself made crown emperor by the force (1156), Frederic Barberousse claims to make permanent its domination and to impose, at the price of a Schisme, its candidate on the papal throne. The lombardes communes refuse to be subjected (1162).

Beginning of the reign of Valdemar Ier the Large one, king of the Denmark (fine in 1182).

October 23rd: Assassination of Knut V by its candidate Suénon (Sven), who will be overcome with the battle of Grethe Hede by Valdemar, wire of Knud Lavard and descendant of Sven Estridsson. Valdemar will ensure the unit of Denmark.

the king of Sweden Erik IX Jedvardson carries out a Croisade christianization against the Finland.

Erik Jedvarsson and the bishop of Uppsala Henrik undertakes a first crusade against Finnish with aims of conversion. The bishop would have undergoes the martyr and his body buried in the cathedral of Åbo (Turku). The action of the first missionaries remains limited to the area around Turku.

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