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Calendar year
King
William II (the Good ) offering the
Monreale Cathedral to the
Virgin Mary .
Year 1166 (
MCLXVI ) was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
Emperor
Manuel I (Komnenos ) asks
Venice to help pay the costs of defending
Sicily , whose Norman rulers have had good relations with Venice. Doge
Vitale II Michiel refuses to pay the requested subsidy. Manuel begins to cultivate relationships with the main commercial rivals of Venice:
Genoa and
Pisa . He grants them their own trade quarters in
Constantinople , very near the Venetian settlements.
Europe
May 7 – King
William I (the Wicked ) of Sicily dies at
Palermo after a 12-year reign. He is succeeded by his 12-year-old son
William II (the Good ), whose mother,
Margaret of Navarre , will be
regent until he comes of age.
Battle of Pantina : The Byzantines intervene on behalf of Grand Prince
Tihomir of Serbia against his rebellious brother, Prince
Stefan Nemanja , who defeats the Byzantine forces and becomes
Grand Župan of
Serbia .
Henry the Lion , duke of
Saxony , has the
Brunswick Lion created at
Dankwarderode Castle in
Braunschweig (modern
Germany ). Mentioned by
Albert of Stade , a German abbot and chronicler, as the year of origin.
July 5 – The town of
Bad Kleinkirchheim (modern
Austria ) is first mentioned, in an ecclesiastical document, in which Archbishop
Conrad II of
Salzburg confirms the donation of a chapel, nearby
Millstatt Abbey .
Autumn – Emperor
Frederick I (Barbarossa ) begins his fourth Italian campaign, hoping to secure the claim of Antipope
Paschal III in
Rome and the coronation of his wife
Beatrice I as Holy Roman Empress.
Mieszko III (the Old ) proclaims a
Prussian crusade against the pagans and pressures the collaboration of Frederick I. He leaves
Greater Poland in the hands of his younger brother
Casimir II (the Just ).
Britain
Diarmaid mac Murchadha is exiled and goes to
Normandy , and the court of King
Henry II to ask for assistance in retaking his kingdom. Henry gives him permission to find a willing army from either
England or
Wales .
Richard de Clare (Strongbow ), 2nd
Earl of Pembroke , and his half-brothers
Robert FitzStephen and
Maurice FitzGerald , agree to help Diarmaid mac Murchadha in return for Diarmaid's daughter's hand in marriage.
Cartae Baronum ("Charters of the Barons"), a survey commissioned by the
Treasury requiring each baron to declare how many knights he had enfeoffed.
Summer – Henry II invades and conquers
Brittany to punish the local Breton barons. He grants the territory to his 7-year-old son
Geoffrey .
[1]
Henry II enacts the
Assize of Clarendon , reforming
English law , with the aim of improving the justice process, including the
jury system .
[2]
William Marshal , a Norman statesman, described as "the greatest knight that ever lived", is
knighted while on campaign in Normandy.
Ireland
Births
February 24 –
Al-Mansur Abdallah , Zaidi
imam (d.
1217 )
July 29 –
Henry I (or Henry II ), king of
Jerusalem (d.
1197 )
December 24 –
John , king of
England (d.
1216 )
Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati , Moorish pharmacist (d.
1239 )
Alan IV (the Young ), viscount of
Rohan (d.
1205 )
Arnold of Altena , German
nobleman (d.
1209 )
Choe U , Korean general and dictator (d.
1249 )
Humphrey IV , lord of
Toron (approximate date)
Judah ben Isaac Messer , French
rabbi (b.
1224 )
Odo III (or Eudes ), duke of
Burgundy (d.
1218 )
Philip d'Aubigny , English nobleman (d.
1236 )
Prithviraj Chauhan , Indian ruler of
Ajmer (d.
1192 )
Shimazu Tadahisa , Japanese warlord (d.
1227 )
Shunten (or Shunten-Ō ), Ryukyu ruler (d.
1237 )
Tamar the Great , queen of
Georgia (d.
1213 )
Wansong Xingxiu , Chinese
Buddhist monk (d.
1246 )
William de Warenne , 5th
Earl of Surrey (d.
1240 )
Deaths
February 21 –
Abdul Qadir Gilani , Persian preacher (b.
1078 )
April 9 –
Waleran de Beaumont , English nobleman (b.
1104 )
May 7 –
William I (the wicked ), king of
Sicily (b.
1120 )
October 12 - Henry I, duke of Wiślica
Ahmad Yasawi , Turkic
Sufi religious leader (b.
1093 )
Athanasius VII bar Qatra , Syrian patriarch of
Antioch
Fujiwara no Motozane , Japanese
waka poet (b.
1143 )
Gillamaire Ua Conallta , Irish poet and
Chief Ollam
Grigor III , Armenian catholicos of
Cilicia (b.
1093 )
Konoe Motozane , Japanese nobleman (b. 1143)
Muirchertach mac Lochlainn , High King of
Ireland
Rosalia , Norman nobleman and saint (b.
1130 )
References