1172

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. [4 ANNALES MONASTICI (Henry Richards Luard ed., 1869) ("MCLXXII. Nihil memoriale.")]

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)
* Prince Llewelyn Wales

Deaths

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

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