1120s in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry I

Events

• 1120
  • 25 November – sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel off Barfleur. King Henry I of England's only legitimate son, William Adelin, is among 300 who drown.
• 1121
  • 24 January – Henry I marries Adeliza of Louvain at Windsor Castle.
  • June – Reading Abbey founded by Henry I.
  • Plympton Priory in Devon re-founded as an Augustinian house by William Warelwast, Bishop of Exeter.
  • Foss Dyke scoured.
• 1122
  • Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, established as an Augustinian house.
• 1123
  • 18 February – William de Corbeil enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 26 August – first Bishop of Bath (Godfrey) consecrated.
  • Louis VI of France supports rebels against English rule in Normandy.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital in London founded by Rahere.
• 1124
  • Henry I unsuccessfully invades the Kingdom of France, having defeated rebels in Normandy.
  • Christmas – moneyers punished by castration following runaway inflation.
• 1125
  • William of Malmesbury completes his histories of England, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum.
• 1126
  • Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York declared equal.
  • 25 December – Henry I asks his nobles to recognise Empress Matilda as his heir.
• 1127
  • 1 January – English nobles accept Matilda as heir.
• 1128
  • 17 June – the dowager Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to the Count of Anjou, in Le Mans.
  • Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley in Surrey.
• 1129
  • 4 October – Henry of Blois becomes Bishop of Winchester, an office which he will hold until his death in 1171.

Births

• 1120
  • Approximate date – John of Salisbury, bishop and scholar (died 1180 in France)
• 1125
  • Renaud de Courtenay, noble (died 1194)

Deaths

• 1120
  • 25 November – White Ship
    • William Adelin, son of Henry I (born 1103)
    • Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, Anglo-Norman noble and soldier (born 1094)
    • Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England
• 1122
  • 20 October – Ralph d'Escures, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1124
  • 15 March – Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester (born 1040, France)
• 1126
  • Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (born 1052)
• 1128
  • 5 September – Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham
• 1129
  • January – Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester (born 1074, France)
  • Symeon of Durham, chronicler

References

References

1. "Reading Abbey". [[Catholic Encyclopedia]].
2. Fizzard, A. D.. (2007). "Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages".
3. ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''.
4. "British History Timeline, Norman Britain". [[BBC]] History.
5. "Waverley Abbey". [[English Heritage]].
6. Palmer, Alan. (1992). "The Chronology of British History". Century Ltd.