1130

Events

• February 14 — Pope Innocent II succeeds Pope Honorius II as the 164th pope.
• An antipope schism occurs when Roger II of Sicily supports Anacletus II as pope instead of Innocent II, who flees to France.
• December 25 - Antipope Anacletus crowns Roger II of Sicily king.
• Magnus the Blind and Harald Gille become joint kings of Norway, starting the civil war era in Norway.
• Magnus I of Gothenland is dethroned and succeeded as King of Sweden by Sverker the Elder.

Births

• Eustace IV of Boulogne (approximate date; d. 1153)
• Daoji, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 1207)
• Baldwin III of Jerusalem (d. 1162)
• Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1176)
• Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian scholar (d. 1200

Deaths

• February 13 — Pope Honorius II
• March 26 — King Sigurd I of Norway (b. c. 1090)
• November 11 — Princess Teresa of Leon
• Brahmadeva, Indian mathematician (b. 1060)
• Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (b. 1074)
• Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (b. 1052)

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