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1195

EVENTS

July 18 — Battle Of Alarcos , great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub Al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII .

Priory Of St Mary's , Bushmead , founded.

Alexius III Angelus overthrows Isaac II and becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire .

BIRTHS

August 15 — Anthony Of Padua , Portuguese preacher and saint (d. 1231 )

Ramon Berenguer IV, Count Of Provence (d. 1245 )

Roger De Quincy, 2nd Earl Of Winchester (d. 1265 )

DEATHS

August 6 — Henry The Lion , Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129 )

December 17 — Baldwin V, Count Of Hainaut (b. 1150 )

Gualdim Pais — Great Master of the Templars in Portugal (b. 1118 )

Hugh De Puiset , bishop of Durham (b. c. 1125 )