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Events

• July 18 — Battle of Alarcos: Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur decisively defeats Castilian King Alfonso VIII.
• The Priory of St Mary's is founded in Bushmead.
• Alexius III Angelus overthrows Isaac II and becomes Byzantine Emperor.

Births

• August 15 — Anthony of Padua, Portuguese preacher and saint (d. 1231)
• Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (d. 1245)
• Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester (d. 1265)

Deaths

• August 6 — Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
• December 17 — Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
• Gualdim Pais, Great Master of the Templars in Portugal (b. 1118)
• Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (b. c. 1125)

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