1120s in England
Events from the 1120s in England.
Incumbents
Events
- 1120
- 25 November – sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel off Barfleur. King Henry I of England's only legitimate son, William Adelin, is among 300 who drown.[1]
- 1121
- 24 January – Henry I marries Adeliza of Louvain at Windsor Castle.[2]
- June – Reading Abbey founded by Henry I.[3]
- Plympton Priory in Devon re-founded as an Augustinian house by William Warelwast, Bishop of Exeter.[4]
- Foss Dyke scoured.
- 1122
- Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, established as an Augustinian house.
- 1123
- 18 February – William de Corbeil enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 26 August – first Bishop of Bath (Godfrey) consecrated.[2]
- Louis VI of France supports rebels against English rule in Normandy.[2]
- St Bartholomew's Hospital in London founded[1] by Rahere.
- 1124
- Henry I unsuccessfully invades the Kingdom of France, having defeated rebels in Normandy.[2]
- Christmas – moneyers punished by castration following runaway inflation.[2][5]
- 1125
- William of Malmesbury completes his histories of England, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum.[2]
- 1126
- Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York declared equal.[2]
- 25 December – Henry I asks his nobles to recognise Empress Matilda as his heir.[6]
- 1127
- 1 January – English nobles accept Matilda as heir.[2]
- 1128
- 17 June – the dowager Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to the Count of Anjou,[2] in Le Mans.
- Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley in Surrey.[7]
- 1129
- 4 October – Henry of Blois becomes Bishop of Winchester, an office which he will hold until his death in 1171.[2]
Births
- 1125
- Renaud de Courtenay, noble (died 1194)
Deaths
- 1120
- 25 November – White Ship
- William Adelin, son of Henry I (born 1103)
- Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, Anglo-Norman noble and soldier (born 1094)
- Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England
- 25 November – White Ship
- 1122
- 20 October – Ralph d'Escures, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1124
- 15 March – Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester (born 1040, France)
- 1126
- Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (born 1052)
- 1128
- 5 September – Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham
- 1129
- January – Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester (born 1074, France)
- Symeon of Durham, chronicler
References
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 118–120. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Reading Abbey". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
- ^ Fizzard, A. D. (2007). Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages.
- ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
- ^ "British History Timeline, Norman Britain". BBC History. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
- ^ "Waverley Abbey". English Heritage. Retrieved 2007-12-19.