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Year 1147 (MCXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • April – Abd al-Mu'min destroys the Almoravid Empire after capturing Marrakech and killing the last emir, Ishaq ibn Ali.
  • The Siculo-Normans take control of Gabes.

    • Asia

  • October 25 – Battle of Dorylaeum, the Seljuq Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III.

    • Europe

  • The Second Crusade begins.
    • Eastern Europe
  • June – The Wendish Crusade fails to convert most of the Polabian Slavs.
  • The cities of Moscow and Vologda are first mentioned in written records.
    • Southern Europe
  • July 1–October 25 – with the support of English and Flemish Crusaders, Afonso I of Portugal besieges and conquers Lisbon (Siege of Lisbon). The same year, the troops of the young Portuguese kingdom take Sintra and Santarém (Conquest of Santarém) and sack Palmela.
  • September – Arrival of the German contingent of the Second Crusade before Constantinople; after a battle before the city walls, the Germans accept to be ferried over the Bosporus to Asia.
  • Roger II of Sicily takes Corfu from the Byzantine Empire, and pillages Corinth, Athens and Thebes.
  • October 7 – Almería, one of the most important maritime and commercial centers of al-Andalus, falls into Christian hands after two months of siege.
  • The Almohad general Berraz ibn Mohammad al-Masufi conquers Seville.
  • Consecration of the church of San Frediano in Lucca

    • Religion

  • Dore Abbey is founded.
  • Hildegard of Bingen founds the convent of Rupertsberg near Bingen.
  • Foundation of Jedburgh Abbey by David I of Scotland

    • Births

  • May 9 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
  • Emperor Guangzong of Song (d. 1200)
  • Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester (d. 1181)
  • Ibn Qudamah, Islamic scholar (d. 1223)
  • Shōkū, Buddhist leader (d. 1247)
  • King Stephen III of Hungary (d. 1172)
  • Taira no Munemori, Japanese warrior (d. 1185)
  • Wada Yoshimori, Japanese military commander (d. 1213)
  • probable – Raimbaut of Orange, troubadour (d. 1173)

    • Deaths

  • January 13 – Robert de Craon, second Grand Master of the Knights Templar
  • April 6 – Frederick II, Duke of Swabia, (b. 1090)
  • April – Fannu, Almoravid Princess and warrior
  • September 19 – Igor II of Kiev
  • October 31 – Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (b. c. 1090)
  • December 25 – Guy II, Count of Ponthieu (b. c. 1120)
  • date unknown
  • John Capellanus, Scottish bishop
  • Comita II of Arborea, ruler of Arborea
  • Pietro Polani, 36th Doge of Venice
  • William fitz Duncan, Scottish prince

    • References

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