1138

Events

• Robert Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• March 13 — Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
• August 9 — A deadly earthquake in Aleppo, Syria kills about 230,000 people.
• August 22 — Battle of the Standard: David I of Scotland is defeated by the English.
• Conrad III of Germany becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• Bavaria is taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.
• A castle in Scotland successfully defeats a siege despite being held by only nine knights.
• The earldom of Pembroke, created for Gilbert de Clare, is the first earldom created by the Norman kings within the borders of Wales.

Births

• March 28 — Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)
• Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1171)
• Casimir II of Poland (died 1194)
• Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (d. 1179)
• Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)

Deaths

• January 13 — Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
• January 25 — Antipope Anacletus II
• William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey
• Ibn Bajjah — Andalusian philosopher
• King Boleslaus III the Wrymouth of Poland

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