1150 Explained
Year 1150 (MCL) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
Levant
Europe
Britain
By topic
Religion
Births
- January 26 – Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Persian polymath (d. 1210)
- October 8 – Narapatisithu, ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (d. 1211)
- Agnes of Loon, German duchess and regent (d. 1191)
- Albert de Rethel, Flemish clergyman and priest (d. 1195)
- Alix of France, French countess and regent (d. 1197)
- André de Chauvigny, French nobleman (d. 1202)
- Azalaïs of Montferrat, Italian noblewoman (d. 1232)
- Baldwin V, count of Hainaut and Flanders (d. 1195)
- Geoffrey of Villehardouin, French knight (d. 1213)
- Gerald FitzMaurice, Norman nobleman (d. 1204)
- Gruffydd Fychan ap Iorwerth, Welsh knight (d. 1221)
- Henry de Longchamp, English High Sheriff (d. 1212)
- Henryk Kietlicz, archbishop of Gniezno (d. 1219)
- Hermann Joseph, German priest and mystic (d. 1241)
- Honorius III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1227)
- Hugh II of Saint Omer, prince of Galilee (d. 1204)
- John Comyn, archbishop of Dublin (approximate date)
- John de Courcy (or Courci), Norman knight (d. 1219)
- Judah ben Samuel, German Jewish rabbi (d. 1217)
- Leo I (or Levon), king of Armenian Cilicia (d. 1219)
- Minamoto no Noriyori, Japanese general (d. 1193)
- Otto I, count of Guelders and Zutphen (d. 1207)
- Qutb al-Din Aibak, ruler of the Delhi Sultanate (d. 1210)
- Ramon I, Catalonian nobleman (approximate date)
- Robert IV, French nobleman and Grand Master (d. 1193)
- Rosamund Clifford, English noblewoman (d. 1176)
- Stephen Langton, English archbishop (d. 1228)
- Theodore Apsevdis, Byzantine painter (d. 1215)
- Umadevi, Indian queen and general (d. 1218)
- William de Braose, English nobleman (d. 1211)
- Wincenty Kadłubek, bishop of Kraków (d. 1223)
- Ye Shi, Chinese scholar and philosopher (d. 1223)
Deaths
- January 9 - Xi Zong, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 1119)
- March 20 - Simon of Worcester, bishop of Worcester
- April 8 - Gertrude of Babenberg, German duchess (b. 1118)
- August 27 - Guarinus of Sitten, French bishop (b. 1065)
- September 16 - Sibylla of Burgundy, queen of Sicily (b. 1126)
- November 12 - Hartbert van Bierum, bishop of Utrecht
- November 21 - García IV (the Restorer), king of Navarre
- December 16 - Raynald of Bar, French abbot
- Barisan of Ibelin (the Old), French nobleman
- Henry VI (Berengar), co-ruler of Germany
- Hervé de Bourg-Dieu, French biblical scholar
- Ibn Masal, Fatimid general, official and vizier
- Jabir ibn Aflah, Andalusian astronomer (b. 1100)
- Kjeld (or Ketil), Danish clergyman and saint
- Reinward, bishop of Meissen (approximate date)
- Renier de Huy, Flemish goldsmith and sculptor
- Robert de Sigello, English bishop and chancellor
- Suryavarman II, ruler of the Khmer Empire
- Teobaldo Roggeri, Italian shoemaker (b. 1100)
- William the Simple, French nobleman (b. 1085)
Notes and References
- Joannes Cinnamus (1976). Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, p. 87. Columbia University Press. .
- Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 267. .
- Smail, R. C. (1956). Crusading Warfare 1097–1193, p. 160. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. .
- Gore, Rick (January 2001). "Ancient Ashkelon". National Geographic.
- Knödler, Julia (2010). Germany: Narrative (1125–1250), p. 178. Clifford J. (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, pp. 176–185. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Book: Nobel . Keith Allan . Changing Doctoral Degrees: An International Perspective . 1994 . Society for Research into Higher Education . 0335192130.
- Book: Scholasticism. Joseph Rickaby. 1908. A. Constable. 23.