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1167

EVENTS

Taira No Kiyomori becomes the first Samurai to be appointed ''Daijo Daijin'', chief minister of the government of Japan

Peter Of Blois becomes the tutor of William II Of Sicily

Absalon , archbishop of Denmark , leads the first Danish Synod at Lund

Absalon fortifies Copenhagen

William Marshal , "the greatest knight that ever lived," is Knight ed

Afonso I Of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom Of Leon

Amalric I Of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt

William Of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre

May 29 — Battle Of Monte Porzio , in which the Roman Army was defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes

BIRTHS

September 10 — Alexius II Comnenus , December 24 — John Of England , Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183 )

Frederick VI, Duke Of Swabia (d. 1191 )

DEATHS

January 23 or January 28 — Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra , mathematician, astronomer, and poet (b. 1092 or 1093 )

August 14 — Rainald Of Dassel , Archbishop Of Cologne (b. c. 1120) dies of epidemic after accompanying Frederick Barbarossa on a campaign into Latium . Several other high-ranking noblemen died of the same epidemic at about the same time, including Děpold I Of Jamnitz , Frederick IV Of Swabia , and Henry II Of Limburg .

September 10 — Empress Maud , wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor ) (b. 1102 )

Yesugei , father of Genghis Khan

Robert Of Melun , English theologian and bishop