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Year 1122 (MCXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

  • Battle of Beroia: Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos defeats and destroys the Pechenegs.
  • To contain the attacks of the Norman raiders, the Almoravid fleet attacks Sicily. The same year (related?), the Muslim population of Malta rebels against the Normans.
  • The king of Aragon, Alfonso the Battler, creates the lay community of knights known as the confraternity of Belchite. It is the first local attempt to imitate the type of structure created in Palestine (end in 1136).
  • King David IV of Georgia reconquers the city of Tbilisi from Muslim rule and makes it his capital.

    • Religion

  • September 23 – The Concordat of Worms resolves the Investiture Controversy, thus bringing to an end the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors.
  • Supposed visit of a patriarch of the Saint Thomas Christians of India to Pope Callixtus II.

    • Births

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (approximate date) (d. 1204)
  • Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1190)

    • Deaths

  • October 20 – Ralph d'Escures, archbishop of Canterbury
  • November 8 – Ilghazi, Artuqid ruler of Mardin
  • November 28 – Margrave Ottokar II of Styria

    • References

    1122 Wikipedia
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