Sir Thomas Corbet Baron of Caus
1192-1274
Born: Westbury, Shropshire, England
Died: Westbury, Shropshire, England
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1192-1274
Born: Westbury, Shropshire, England
Died: Westbury, Shropshire, England
<strong><span><p>1100: Henry I becomes king of England</p><p> Building of Castle Chillon, near Geneva, Switzerland</p><p>1101: Treaty of Alton: Robert of Normandy is bought off after invading England</p><p> Roger de Sicily d.</p><p>1102: Boleslav III becomes Duke of Poland (-1138)</p><p>1104: Acre taken by Crusaders</p><p>1105: Henry IV of Germany is captured by his son and abdicated. </p><p> Colonization of eastern Germany begins </p><p>1106: Henry IV of Germany d; succeeded by Henry V, the last Salic emperor (-1125)</p><p>1108: Philip I of France d; succeeded by Louis VI (-1137)</p><p>1113: Founding of St. Nicholas, Novgorod, one of the first onion-domed churches</p><p>1114: Founding of Chichester Cathedral</p><p>1120: Peace between Henry I of England and Louis VI of France</p><p> Disaster of the "White Ship": only legitimate son of Henry I of England drowned off Harfleur</p><p> The Chinese may have invented playing cards</p><p>1121: Henry I of England creates earldom of Gloucester for his illegitimate son Robert of Caen</p><p>1124: David I becomes King of Scotland</p><p> First Scottish coinage struck</p><p>1125: Beginning of Troubadour and trouvere music in France</p><p> Alexander Neckam: "De utensibus" (earliest account of a mariner's compass)</p><p>1126: The English barons accept Matilda, widow of Emperor Henry V and daughter of Henry I of England, as successor to Henry I</p><p>1127: Guillaume de Poitou, one of the first troubadours d. (b. 1070)</p><p>1128: Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet of Anjou</p><p> Alfonso I becomes King of Portugal (-1185)</p><p> Order of the Templars recognized by the pope</p><p> Abbey of Holyrood founded by David I of Scotland</p><p>1134: Western facade off Chartres Cathedral built (-1150)</p><p>1135: King Henry I of England d; succeeded by his nephew Stephen of Boulogne (Blois) (-1154), a grandson of William the conqueror</p><p>1136: Matilda asserts her right to the English throne</p><p>1137: Gruffydd, Prince of North Wales, d; succeeded by Owain the Great (-1170)</p><p> Louis VI of France d; succeeded by Louis VII</p><p> Rochester Cathedral burns down and is rebuilt</p><p> Mainz Cathedral is completed</p><p>1138: Boleslas III of Poland, having divided his realm between his five sons, d.</p><p> David I of Scotland invades England on behalf of Matilda and is defeated at the Battle of the Standards</p><p>1139: Matilda lands at Arundel: civil war in England</p><p>1141: Matilda proclaimed queen at Winchester</p><p>1144: Geoffrey V d'Anjou made Duke of Normandy</p><p>1145: Bridge over the Danube at Ratisbon completed (begun 1135)</p><p>1147: Matilda leaves England</p><p> Crusaders perish in Asia Minor: failure of the Second Crusade</p><p>1150: Troubadour music in southern France becomes organized</p><p> Medical faculty at Bologna University</p><p> Arabs in Spain manufacture paper</p><p>1151: Geoffrey d'Anjou d; succeeded by Henry, his son by Matilda of England</p><p> New dance forms develop in Europe</p><p> The first fire and plague insurance (in Iceland)</p><p> The game of chess arrives in England</p><p> The Chinese use explosives in warfare</p><p>1152: Louis VII divorces his queen, Eleanor, who marries Henry II of England</p><p>1153: David I of Scotland d; succeeded by his grandson Malcolm IV</p><p>1154: Stephen of Blois d; Henry II becomes King of England (-1189)</p><p> Thomas a Becket becomes Henry's chancellor</p><p>1155: Pope Hadrian IV bestows Ireland on Henry II</p><p> Henry II of England abolishes fiscal earldoms and restores royal demesne</p><p>1158: Munich becomes center of salt trade</p><p>1161: Edward the Confessor canonized</p><p>1162: Thomas a Becket elected Archbishop of Canterbury</p><p>1163: Quarrel starts between Henry II and Thomas a Becket</p><p> Notre Dame, Paris, built (-1235)</p><p>1164: Becket flees to France</p><p>1165: William the Lion (-1214) becomes King of Scotland</p><p>1166: Assize of Clarendon orders erection of jails in all English counties and borouoghs</p><p>1167: Oxford University founded</p><p>1170: Becket returns to Canterbury and is murdered </p><p>1172: Queen Eleanor raises Aquitaine against Henry II</p><p> Reconciliation between Henry II and the pope</p><p>1173: Queen Eleanor imprisoned (-1185)</p><p> Canonization of Thomas a Becket</p><p> First authenticated influenza epidemics</p><p>1174: Henry II does penance at Canterbury for murder of Becket</p><p> Earliest horse races in England</p><p>1176: Walter Map organizes the Arthurian legends in their present form</p><p>1177: Treaty of Ivry between Henry II of England and Louis VII</p><p>1180: Louis VII of France d.; succeeded by his son Philip II Augustus (-1223)</p><p> Glass windows appear in English private houses</p><p> Ranulf de Glanville reforms English judicial system</p><p> First windmills with vertical sails in Europe</p><p>1182: Jews banished from France</p><p>1189: King Henry II of England d.; succeeded by Richard I (-1199)</p><p> First silver florins minted at Florence</p><p>1191: Tea arrives in Japan from China</p><p>1193: Indigo and brazilwood imported from India to Britain for dying purposes</p><p>1194: Erection of present Chartres Cathedral (-1260)</p><p>1199: John Lackland becomes King of England (-1216)</p></span></strong>