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Year 1150 (MCL) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

Battle of Tara: The Byzantines defeat the Serbian-Hungarian army under Grdeša, count (župan) of Travunija, near the snow-covered Tara River. The Serbs are overpowered, and Grand Prince Uroš II is forced to accept the peace agreement made by Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos). Uroš is succeeded by his brother Desa, who becomes co-ruler of the Principality of Serbia (until 1153).

Levant

Spring – Joscelin II, count of Edessa, on his way to Antioch is separated from his escort and falls into the hands of some Turcoman free-booters. Nur al-Din, ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo, heard of Joscelin's capture and sends a squadron of cavalry to take him from his captors. Joscelin is led before a hostile crowd and publicly blinded. Nur al-Din puts him in prison in the Citadel of Aleppo.
Battle of Aintab: A Crusader army led by King Baldwin III repels the attacks of Nur al-Din near Aintab. Baldwin safely evacuates the Christian residents of the County of Edessa, which is captured by the Zangids.
The city of Ascalon is fortified with 53 towers by order of the 17-year-old Caliph Al-Zafir, as it is the most strategic frontier fortress of the Fatimid Caliphate.

Europe

February 8 – Battle of Flochberg: German forces under Henry VI defeat the army of the House of Welf at Bopfingen. At the same time, King Conrad III besieges Welf forces at Braunschweig in Saxony, but he lifts the siege when confronted by Henry the Lion.
The University of Paris (known as the Sorbonne) is founded. The first doctorate degree is awarded in Paris.
The city of Rinteln is founded on the northern bank of the Weser River in Lower Saxony (modern Germany).

Britain

November 10 – Dryburgh Abbey located in the Scottish Borders is founded by Lord Hugh de Morville.
Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre (Orkney Islands) and is first mentioned in the Orkneyinga Saga.
Christchurch Priory located in Hampshire is founded by Earl Baldwin de Redvers.
The Irish Chronology (Chronicon Scotorum) is written (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

The 15-year-old King Inge I (the Hunchback) of Norway calls for a meeting at Bergen of all religious leaders in anticipation that the English cardinal Nicholas Breakspear will find an archbishopric at Trondheim.
Peter Lombard, a French scholastic theologian, publishes the Four Books of Sentences, which becomes the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities.
The temple at Angkor Wat ("Capital of Temples") is completed in the Khmer Empire (modern Cambodia).

Births

January 26 – Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Persian polymath (d. 1210)
October 8 – Narapatisithu, ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (d. 1211)
Agnes of Loon, German duchess and regent (d. 1191)
Albert de Rethel, Flemish clergyman and priest (d. 1195)
Alix of France, French countess and regent (d. 1197)
André de Chauvigny, French nobleman (d. 1202)
Azalaïs of Montferrat, Italian noblewoman (d. 1232)
Baldwin V, count of Hainaut and Flanders (d. 1195)
Geoffrey of Villehardouin, French knight (d. 1213)
Gerald FitzMaurice, Norman nobleman (d. 1204)
Gruffydd Fychan ap Iorwerth, Welsh knight (d. 1221)
Henry de Longchamp, English High Sheriff (d. 1212)
Henryk Kietlicz, archbishop of Gniezno (d. 1219)
Hermann Joseph, German priest and mystic (d. 1241)
Honorius III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1227)
Hugh II of Saint Omer, prince of Galilee (d. 1204)
John Comyn, archbishop of Dublin (approximate date)
John de Courcy (or Courci), Norman knight (d. 1219)
Judah ben Samuel, German Jewish rabbi (d. 1217)
Leo I (or Levon), king of Armenian Cilicia (d. 1219)
Minamoto no Noriyori, Japanese general (d. 1193)
Otto I, count of Guelders and Zutphen (d. 1207)
Qutb al-Din Aibak, ruler of the Delhi Sultanate (d. 1210)
Ramon I, Catalonian nobleman (approximate date)
Robert IV, French nobleman and Grand Master (d. 1193)
Rosamund Clifford, English noblewoman (d. 1176)
Stephen Langton, English archbishop (d. 1228)
Theodore Apsevdis, Byzantine painter (d. 1215)
Umadevi, Indian queen and general (d. 1218)
William de Braose, English nobleman (d. 1211)
Wincenty Kadłubek, bishop of Kraków (d. 1223)
Ye Shi, Chinese scholar and philosopher (d. 1223)

Deaths

January 9 – Xi Zong, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 1119)
March 20 – Simon of Worcester, bishop of Worcester
April 8 – Gertrude of Babenberg, German duchess (b. 1118)
August 27 – Guarinus of Sitten, French bishop (b. 1065)
September 16 – Sibylla of Burgundy, queen of Sicily (b. 1126)
November 12 – Hartbert van Bierum, bishop of Utrecht
November 21 – García IV (the Restorer), king of Navarre
December 16 – Raynald of Bar, French abbot
Barisan of Ibelin (the Old), French nobleman
Henry VI (Berengar), co-ruler of Germany
Hervé de Bourg-Dieu, French biblical scholar
Ibn Masal, Fatimid general, official and vizier
Jabir ibn Aflah, Andalusian astronomer (b. 1100)
Kjeld (or Ketil), Danish clergyman and saint
Reinward, bishop of Meissen (approximate date)
Renier de Huy, Flemish goldsmith and sculptor
Robert de Sigello, English bishop and chancellor
Suryavarman II, ruler of the Khmer Empire
Teobaldo Roggeri, Italian shoemaker (b. 1100)
William the Simple, French nobleman (b. 1085)

References

Joannes Cinnamus (1976). ''Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus'', p. 87. Columbia University Press. {{ISBN. 978-0-231-52155-0.
Steven Runciman (1952). ''A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem'', p. 267. {{ISBN. 978-0-241-29876-3.
Smail, R. C. (1956). ''Crusading Warfare 1097–1193'', p. 160. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. {{ISBN. 1-56619-769-4.
Gore, Rick (January 2001). "Ancient Ashkelon". National Geographic.
Knödler, Julia (2010). ''Germany: Narrative (1125–1250)'', p. 178. Clifford J. (ed). ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology'', pp. 176–185. New York: Oxford University Press.
(1994). "Changing Doctoral Degrees: An International Perspective". Society for Research into Higher Education.
Joseph Rickaby. (1908). "Scholasticism". A. Constable.

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