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1140: Encyclopedia - 1140

1140 - Events. Henry Jasomirgott was made count palatine of the Rhine. The town of Lanark in Scotland was made a Royal Burgh by David I of Scotland. Camaldolite monk Gratian founds the science of Canon Law with the publication of the Decretum Marburg becomes a town 1140 - Births. May 28 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (died 1207) Minamoto no Yoshihira, Japanese warrior (died 1160) 1140 - Deaths< ...

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1140: Encyclopedia - Abbey

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys

Abbey - Westminster Abbey

Abbey - York

Abbey - English Cluniac

Abbey - Cistercian

Abbey - Clairvaux Abbey

Abbey - Citeaux Abbey

Abbey - Kirkstall Abbey

Abbey - Fountains Abbey

Abbey - Austin Canons

Abbey - Bristol Cathedral

Abbey - Premonstratensians

Abbey - Carthusian

Abbey - Clermont

Abbey - Mendicant Friars

Abbey - Norwich, Gloucester

Abbey - Hulne

Abbey - Cells

Abbey - Abbots and abbesses as rulers

Abbey - Nunnery

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1140: Encyclopedia - List of Byzantine Emperors

This is a list of the Emperors of the late Roman Empire, called Byzantine. The title of all Emperors listed preceding Heraclius was officially Augustus, although various other titles such as Dominus were used as well. For official purposes, their names were preceded by Imperator Caesar Flavius and followed by Augustus. Following Heraclius, the title became the Greek Basileus (Gr. Βασιλευς), which had formerly meant "king" but now was used in place of Augustus. Other (and to Roman minds, lesser) kings were titled by the neologi ...

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List of Byzantine Emperors - Constantinian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Valentinian-Theodosian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Leonid dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Justinian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Heraclian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Heraclian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Isaurian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Phocid dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Phrygian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Macedonian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Comnenid dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Doukid dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Comnenid dynasty restored

List of Byzantine Emperors - Angelid dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Laskarid dynasty in exile in the Empire of Nicaea

List of Byzantine Emperors - Palaeologid Dynasty restored to Constantinople

List of Byzantine Emperors - Ottomans

List of Byzantine Emperors - Palaeologid Dynasty in exile

1140: Encyclopedia - Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park and World Heritage Site which contains the densest and most exceptional concentration of large pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a relatively inaccessible valley cut by the Chaco Wash. The park preserves one of America's most fascinating cultural and historic areas. Between 850 BC and AD 1250, Chaco Canyon was a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture. It w ...

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Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Park history

Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Cultural history

Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Chacoan Great Houses

Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Chaco Canyon sites

Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Reference

Chaco Culture National Historical Park - External link

1140: Encyclopedia - Conrad III of Germany

Conrad III (1093 - February 15, 1152, Bamberg), the first German king of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was the son of Frederick I, Duke of Swabia and Agnes, a daughter of Emperor Henry IV. Conrad was appointed duke of Franconia by his uncle, emperor Henry V, in 1115. One year later he acted as regent for Germany, together with his elder brother, Frederick II of Swabia. At the death of Henry (1125), Conrad un ...

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Conrad III of Germany - Sources

1140: Encyclopedia - Citeaux Abbey

Cîteaux Abbey (French: abbaye de Cîteaux) is a Catholic abbey located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, south of Dijon, France. Today it belongs to the Order of the Trappists, the Cistercians of the Strict Observance; the Cistercian order takes its name from this mother house of Cisteaux, near Nuits-Saint-Georges. The abbey has about 35 members. Citeaux Abbey - History. Main article: Cistercians. The abbey of Cîteaux was founded in 1098 by Saint Robert of Mo ...

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Citeaux Abbey - History

Citeaux Abbey - Current activities

Citeaux Abbey - Related links

1140: Encyclopedia - William of Malmesbury

William of Malmesbury (c. 1080/1095 – c. 1143), English historian of the 12th century, was born about the year 1080/1095, in Wiltshire. His father was Norman and mother English. He spent his whole life in England with his best working years as a monk at Malmesbury Abbey. William of Malmesbury - Biography. The education William received at Malmesbury Abbey included a smattering of logic and physics; but moral philosophy and history, especially the latter, were the subjects to which he devoted most attentio ...

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William of Malmesbury - Biography

William of Malmesbury - Significance

William of Malmesbury - Bibliography

1140: Encyclopedia - Brother Cadfael

Brother Cadfael is a fictional character, the detective in a series of murder mysteries by Edith Pargeter writing under the name "Ellis Peters." Cadfael is a Benedictine monk, the herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, near the Welsh border. Cadfael himself is of Welsh extraction; his full name is Cadfael ap (son of) Meilyr ap Dafydd and he was born around 1080 to a villein (serf) family in Trefriw, in Gwynedd (northern Wales). The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during the civil wa ...

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Brother Cadfael - The Brother Cadfael stories

Brother Cadfael - Short stories

Brother Cadfael - Novels

Brother Cadfael - BBC Radio 4 Adaptations

Brother Cadfael - Telemovies

Brother Cadfael - Reference

1140: Encyclopedia - Archbishop of Caesarea

The Archbishop of Caesarea was one of the major suffragans of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem during the crusades. The diocese was an ancient one, dating from the 2nd century. It was the metropolis of the diocese of Palaestina Prima. Until the establishment of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, it was subject to the Patriarch of Antioch. By the time of the crusades it was a Greek Orthodox diocese, but when Caesarea was captured by the crusaders in 1101, a Latin archbishop was established there, ...

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Archbishop of Caesarea - Bishops of Caesarea

Archbishop of Caesarea - Archbishops of Caesarea

1140: Encyclopedia - Tallit

The tallit (Modern Hebrew טַלֵּית) or tallet (Sephardi Hebrew טַלֵּית), also called talles (Yiddish), is a prayer shawl "cloak" that is worn during the morning Jewish services (the Shacharit prayers) in Judaism. It has special twined and knotted "fringes" known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. The tallit is sometimes also referred to as the arba kanfot, meaning the ‘four w ...

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Tallit - Terminology

Tallit - Historical origin

Tallit - Kinds of tallit

Tallit - Tallit gadol

Tallit - Tallit katan

Tallit - Description of tallit gadol

Tallit - Blessings

Tallit - When putting on a Talit Katan

Tallit - For putting on a Tallit Gadol

Tallit - Use

Tallit - Obligation for men

Tallit - Views on use by women

Tallit - Order of putting on tallit and tefillin

Tallit - Weddings

Tallit - Burial

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1140: Encyclopedia - King Arthur

King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of legends known as the Matter of Britain. There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed. In the earliest mentions and in Welsh texts, he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as a dux bellorum ("war leader"), and High Medieval Welsh texts often call him an ameraudur ("emperor"; the ...

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King Arthur - The Arthur of history

King Arthur - Earliest traditions of Arthur

King Arthur - The Arthurian romance

King Arthur - Arthur's swords

King Arthur - Arthur in various media

King Arthur - Literature

King Arthur - Plays

King Arthur - Opera

King Arthur - Film

King Arthur - Television

King Arthur - Other media

King Arthur - Bibliography

1140: Encyclopedia - Abraham ibn Ezra

Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (also known as Ibn Ezra, or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093-1167), was one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the Middle Ages. He was born at Tudela province of Navarra, left his native land of Spain before 1140 and led until his death a life of restless wandering, which took him to North Africa, Egypt, Italy (Rome, Lucca, Mantua, Verona), Southern France (Narbonne, Béziers), Northern France (Dreux), England (London), and back again to the South of France. < ...

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Abraham ibn Ezra - His Works

Abraham ibn Ezra - His Mission

Abraham ibn Ezra - Biblical Commentaries

Abraham ibn Ezra - Hebrew Grammar

Abraham ibn Ezra - Smaller Works Partly Grammatical Partly Exegetical

Abraham ibn Ezra - Religious Philosophy

Abraham ibn Ezra - Mathematics Astronomy Astrology

Abraham ibn Ezra - As Poet

Abraham ibn Ezra - Article references

1140: Encyclopedia - Constantine I of Armenia

Constantine I of Armenia (d. January 24, 1102) succeeded his father Roupen as Lord of the Mountains in 1095. He began his reign by capturing the castle of Vahka on the upper Seyhoun River, allowing him to tax goods traveling from Ayas to the interior. Throughout his reign, he continued to expand his control over Cilicia. Upon the arrival of the First Crusade, he supplied the Crusaders with provisions and other aid, and was rewarded with the titles of Count and Baron. He had three children: Beatrice, married Joscelin I of Edessa. Thoros I of Armenia (d. 1129), succeede ...

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Constantine I of Armenia - External link

1140: Encyclopedia - British Isles

The British Isles is a term traditionally given to the group of islands off the northwest coast of Europe including Great Britain (containing England, Scotland, and Wales), Ireland, and several thousand smaller adjacent islands. The name was extensively used historically, derived from when the island of Great Britain was called Britannias, and Ireland and the other islands near Great Britain were called Britanniae (the Latin genitive case meaning of Britannias.) In 1922 most of the island of Ireland ceased to be i ...

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British Isles - List of the British Isles

British Isles - Origin of the term British Isles

British Isles - Classical geographers

British Isles - Native sources

British Isles - Renaissance mapmakers

British Isles - Modern historians

British Isles - Subsequent political history

British Isles - Problems with modern usage

British Isles - Alternative terms

British Isles - Footnotes

1140: Encyclopedia - Arnold of Brescia

Arnold of Brescia, (1090-1155), was a monk from Italy who participated in the Commune of Rome and started the subsequent rebellion. Arnold of Brescia - Arnold's life in France. As a young priest, Arnold studied under the tutelage of famed reformer and poet, Pierre Abélard. He took to Abélard's philosophy of reform ways and became very critical of the Catholic Church when it became involved in a land struggle in Brescia. He called on the Church to renounce ownership of property and return it to the ...

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Arnold of Brescia - Arnold's life in France

Arnold of Brescia - Arnold's Life and Death in Rome

1140: Encyclopedia - Bristol Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity is the Anglican cathedral in the English city of Bristol and is commonly known as Bristol Cathedral. Bristol Cathedral was founded as St Augustine's Abbey in 1140. The chapterhouse, still standing, dates from 1165, and the Elder Lady Chapel from 1220. The Norman abbey church was rebuilt from 1298 onwards, but the new church was still incomplete at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 and its nave was demolished. In 1542 the church was made the cathedral of a new Diocese of Bris ...

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Bristol Cathedral - Trivia

1140: Encyclopedia - Vik

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Vik - History

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1140: Encyclopedia - 1160

1160 - Events. Erik den helige is succeeded by Karl Sverkersson. See Swedish monarchs. Heiji Rebellion in Japan Yasovarman II succeeds his uncle Dharanindravarman as ruler of the Khmer Empire. Dharanindravarman's son Jayavarman, acquieses to his cousin's succession and goes into exile in neighbroing Champa. Spital am Semmering founded by Margrave Ottokar III of Styria The City of Tomar is founded in Portugal by Gualdim Pais 1160 - Births. < ...

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1160 - Births

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1140: Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet

The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, is an ancient text purporting to reveal the secret of the primordial substance and its transmutations. Its claims to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the Thrice-Great"), a legendary Egyptian sage or god, variously identified with the Egyptian god Thoth and/or the Greek god Hermes. This short and cryptic text was highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art, ...

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Emerald Tablet - The Tablet itself

Emerald Tablet - Textual history

Emerald Tablet - Influence

Emerald Tablet - External link

Emerald Tablet - Bibliography

1140: Encyclopedia - 1207

1207 - Births. September 8 - King Sancho II of Portugal September 30 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (died 1273) October 1 - King Henry III of England (died 1272) Henry II, Duke of Brabant (died 1248) Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (died 1231) Philip I of Savoy (died 1285) 1207 - Deaths. Amaury of Bene, heretic Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria ...