1172

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Events

• Duke Richard of Aquitaine becomes Duke of Poitiers (later King Richard I of England).
• Pope Gregory VIII hosts the Council of Avranches, where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket.
• The Synod of Cashel ends the Celtic Christian system and brings them under Rome.
• According to the annals of the Worcester Priory, "nothing memorable" happens in this year.

Births

• Baldwin I of Constantinople (d. 1205)
• Fujiwara Moroie, last of the Japanese Fujiwara Regents (d. 1238)
• Takash, the shah of Persia (d. 1200)
• Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford (d. 1214)
• Louis I, Count of Blois (d. 1205)
• Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester (d. 1232)
• Isabella of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem 1190/1192–1205 (d. 1205)

Deaths

• Agnes, daughter of Italian Count Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1125)
• Hemachandra, Indian mathematician, philosopher and historian (b. 1089)

References

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