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Events

Politics and world affairs

Holy Roman Empire/Southern Italy
January 27: Henry VI. von Hohenstaufen marries in Milan Constance of Sicily, the Norman heiress of the Kingdom of Sicily. They are then crowned King and Queen of Italy.
August 17: In the Georgenberger Handfeste, the Styrian Duke Ottokar IV of the sex of the Traungauer and Leopold V of Austria of the sex of the Babenberger conclude an inheritance agreement with the provision that Styria and Austria should remain undivided forever.

November: Second Hoftag zu Gelnhausen: With the Gelnhauser Privilege Bremen receives from Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa municipal privileges and becomes formally free imperial city.

Byzantine Empire
The Imperial Byzantine fleet is crushed by the Normans off Cyprus.
The Byzantine Empire recognizes the independence of Bulgaria and Hungary.

Kingdom of Jerusalem
September: After the death of nine-year-old Balduin V, his mother Sibylle, along with her husband Guido von Lusignan and her ally Renaud de Châtillon, manages to seize power in the Kingdom of Jerusalem before Balduin’s Regent Raimund of Tripoli can resolve the question of succession.

First documentary mentions
Freiberg, Gurmels, Hachelbich, Waidhofen an der Ybbs (Lower Austria) and Kalkofen are mentioned in documents for the first time.

Gebhardshagen Castle is mentioned for the first time in documents.

Culture and religion
In Angkor (Cambodia) the temple monastery Ta Prohm is inaugurated.

Born

Date of birth secured

June 17: Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, Egyptian-Jewish theologian, exegete, mystic and physician, leader of the Jewish community of Egypt (d. 1237)
July: Ermesinde II, Countess of Luxembourg († 1247)

Exact date of birth unknown

Leszek I, Senior Duke of Poland († 1227)
Mawe Sengge, Tibetan Buddhist cleric (1247)

Born around 1186

Dagmar of Bohemia, Bohemian princess and Danish queen († 1212)
Chagatai-Noyon, founder of the Chagatai Khanat († 1242)
1186/1187: Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal († 1220)

Died

Death date secured

February 18: Dietbert of Bussnang, Abbot of St. Blasien
April 4: Udo II. of Veldenz, Bishop of Naumburg
June 15: Reginhard von Abenberg, Bishop of Würzburg (* around 1120)
June 24: Robert von Torigni, Norman chronicler (* around 1110)
August 7 – Takeda Nobuyoshi, Japanese politician (* 1128)
19 August: Gottfried II, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond (* 1158)
August 26 – Rapoto I, Count of Orteburg
7 September: John II, Archbishop of Novgorod and Pskov, Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church
September 29: William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and chronicler (* around 1130)
September: Balduin V, King of Jerusalem (* 1177)
7 October: Christian, Scottish clergyman, Bishop of Whi