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Year 1129 (MCXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • January 13 – Council of Troyes: The Order of the Knights Templar is ordained by the Pope.
  • Emperor Toba begins his cloistered rule, sharing power with Sutuku, ex-Emperor Shirakawa's son.
  • Jin–Song wars: The government of Song Dynasty China moves from Yangzhou to Hangzhou after the Jurchen Jin Dynasty captured their previous capital of Kaifeng in the Jingkang Incident.
  • Burgsteinfurt Castle is built in what is now Steinfurt, Germany.
  • Henry of Blois becomes bishop of Winchester in England.

    • Births

  • Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary (d. 1164)
  • Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (d. 1195)

    • Deaths

  • January – Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester
  • February 16 Thoros I, Prince of Armenia
  • July 24 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1053)
  • date unknown
  • Constantine II, Prince of Armenia
  • Margrave Leopold of Styria
  • probable – Symeon of Durham, English chronicler

    • References

    1129 Wikipedia
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