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1146

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy

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1145

Ramesses IV - Ends his short six year reign...buried in Valley of the Kings.

Ramessess V - begins his new reign as Pharoah.

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1144

Louis VII capitulates to Pope Celestine II and so earns the pope's absolution

Pope Celestine II is succeeded by Pope Lucius II

Montauban, France, is founded

First recorded example of an anti-Semitic blood libel in England

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1143

The exploration of the uncharted eastern parts of Germany begins and results in the founding of cities such as Lübeck

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1142

The Empress Maud, granted Oakley, Buckinghamshire church, with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove to the monks of St. Frideswide, in Oxford.

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1141

Battle of Lincoln. Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Empress Matilda wrest control of the English throne, from King Stephen.

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1140

Camaldolite monk Gratian founds the science of Canon law with the publication of the Decretum

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1139

July 26, Independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of León and Castile declared after the Battle of Ourique against the Almoravides lead by Ali ibn Yusuf: Prince Afonso Henriques becomes Afonso I, King of Portugal, after assembling the first assembly of the estates-general of Portugal at Lamego, where he was given the Crown from the Bishop of Bragança, to confirm the independence.

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1138

Bavaria was taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.

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1137

Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X.

France