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Events from the 1120s in England.

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Incumbents

Monarch - Henry I

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.
  • 1121
  • 24 January - Henry I marries Adeliza of Louvain at Windsor Castle.
  • June - Reading Abbey founded by Henry I.
  • 1122
  • 1123
  • 18 February - William de Corbeil enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 26 August - First Bishop of Bath (Godfrey) consecrated.
  • Louis VI of France supports rebels against English rule in Normandy.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital in London founded by Rahere.
  • 1124
  • Henry I unsuccessfully invades the Kingdom of France, having defeated rebels in Normandy.
  • Christmas - Moneyers punished by castration following runaway inflation.
  • 1125
  • William of Malmesbury completes his histories of England, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum.
  • 1126
  • Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York declared equal.
  • 25 December - Henry I asks his nobles to recognise Empress Matilda as his heir.
  • 1127
  • 1 January - English nobles accept Matilda as heir.
  • 1128
  • 17 June - Matilda marries Geoffrey Martel, heir to the Count of Anjou.
  • Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley in Surrey.
  • 1129
  • 4 October - Henry of Blois becomes Bishop of Winchester, an office which he will hold until his death in 1171.

    • 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
  • 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

    1120s in England Wikipedia
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