1186

Events

• January 27 – Constance of Sicily marries Henry (the future Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor).
• John the Chanter becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• The Byzantine Empire recognizes the independence of Bulgaria and Serbia.
• Joscius becomes Archbishop of Tyre.
• Jayavarman VII, the king of Cambodia, founds the temple of Ta Prohm.
• After the death of the child-king Baldwin V, his mother succeeds him as Sibylla of Jerusalem, and appoints her disfavoured husband Guy de Lusignan king consort. This comes as a shock to Jerusalem's court, who had earlier forced the possible future Queen into promising that should she become so, she would not appoint him the title.
• The first nunnery is inaugurated in Iceland, the Kirkjubæjar Abbey.
• Caliph al-Nasir marries Princess Seljuki. Right after her betrothal to him, he brings her to live with him. He then sends an escort to bring her to Baghdad from Rum, consummates the marriage, and gives her priceless jewels and lavish gifts.

Births

• May 18 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
• November 7 – Ögedei Khan, third son and successor of Genghis Khan (d. 1241)
• date unknown or approximate
  • Checheyigen, second daughter of Genghis Khan (d. after 1253)
  • Queen Urraca of Portugal, wife of King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1220)
  • Song Ci, Chinese physician and judge (d. 1249)
  • William III of Sicily (d. 1198)

Deaths

• January 26 – Ismat ad-Din Khatun, wife of Saladin
• May 29 or June 23 or June 24 – Robert of Torigni
• June 1 – Minamoto no Yukiie, Japanese warlord
• August 19 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
• August – Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. 1177)
• September 29 – William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (b. c. 1130)
• December 8 – Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen (b.c 1125)

References

References

1. Huffman, Joseph Patrick. (2009). "The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307)". University of Michigan Press.
2. (1999). "Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide". ABC-CLIO.
3. Heng, Geraldine. (2014). "Saints and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh, ed. Vincent William Lloyd and Molly Harbour Bassett. Routledge".
4. Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. (1877). "Report and Transactions - The Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art". W. Brendon & Son.
5. Stubbs, William. (2012). "Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis. The Chronicle of the Reigns of Henry II and Richard I, AD 1169-1192: Known Commonly Under the Name of Benedict of Peterborough". Cambridge University Press.
6. Gerald, Hannibal Gerald Duncan. (1933). "Immigration and Assimilation". D. C. Heath and Company.
7. Lipson, Ephraim. (1960). "Europe in the 19th & 20th Centuries". Allied Publishers.
8. (2019). "The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn: A critical edition and translation of the anonymous Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum". Routledge.
9. Edbury, Peter W.. (1978). "The 'Cartulaire de Manosque': a Grant to the Templars in Latin Syria and a Charter of King Hugh I of Cyprus1". Historical Research.
10. Lakshmipriya, T.. (2008). "Structural Analysis of Historic Construction: Preserving Safety and Significance, Two Volume Set: Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historic Construction, SAHC08, 2-4 July 2008, Bath, United Kingdom". CRC Press.
11. Schissler, Eric J.. (2009). "An examination of Khmer prayer inside the Ta Prohm complex and its implications for Angkor management policy". CardinalScholar 1.0.
12. Welch, David J.. (March 1989). "Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Exchange Patterns in the Phimai Region, Thailand". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
13. Edbury, Peter W.. (2017). "The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation". Routledge.
14. Bauer, S. Wise. (2013). "The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople". W. W. Norton & Company.
15. Stanley, Lane-Poole. (July 1898). "The Fight That Lost Jerusalem". [[The Cornhill Magazine]].
16. (2018-10-10). "Pollen, Plague & Protestants: The Medieval Monastery of Þingeyrar (Þingeyraklaustur) in Northern Iceland". Environmental Archaeology.
17. (2020). "Episcopal Economics". Scandinavian Journal of History.
18. Fabian, Bernhard. (2001). "Handbuch deutscher historischen Buchbestände. St.Petersburg-Rußland.". Georg Olms Verlag.
19. Howard, Michael C.. (2012). "Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies: The Role of Cross-Border Trade and Travel". McFarland.
20. (2014). "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women". Routledge.
21. Repp, Richard C.. (2003). "Review of From the 'Terror of the World' to the 'Sick Man of Europe': European Images of Ottoman Empire and Society from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth". Journal of Islamic Studies.
22. Eley, Penny. (2011). "Partonopeus de Blois: Romance in the Making". Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
23. Tanner, Heather J.. (2019). "Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100--1400: Moving Beyond the Exceptionalist Debate". Springer.
24. Asen, Daniel. (2017-06-01). "Song Ci (1186–1249), "Father of World Legal Medicine": History, Science, and Forensic Culture in Contemporary China". East Asian Science, Technology and Society.
25. (1999). "History and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine". IOS Press.
26. Dutelle, Aric W.. (2017). "An Introduction to Crime Scene Investigation". Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
27. Loud, G. A.. (2009-08-01). "The Chancery and Charters of the Kings of Sicily (1130–1212)". The English Historical Review.
28. Kleinhenz, Christopher. (2004). "Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia". Routledge.
29. Burns, Ross. (2007). "Damascus: A History". Routledge.
30. Howlett, Richard. (2012). "Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I". Cambridge University Press.
31. Pohl, Benjamin. (2014). "Abbas qui et scriptor? The Handwriting of Robert of Torigni and His Scribal Activity as Abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel (1154–1186)". Traditio.
32. Mathieu, Marguerite. (1966-01-01). "Le manuscrit 162 d' Avranches ou Robert de Torigni et Robert Guiscard". Sacris Erudiri.
33. (2001). "War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960". University of Hawaii Press.
34. Frédéric, Louis. (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia". Harvard University Press.
35. (1999). "The Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany and Her Family, 1171-1221". Boydell & Brewer.
36. Everard, J. A.. (2004). "Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire 1158–1203". Cambridge University Press.
37. Bauer, S. Wise. (2013). "The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople". W. W. Norton & Company.
38. Jacoby, Zehava. (1979-01-01). "The Tomb of Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem (1185-1186), and the Workshop of the Temple Area". Gesta.
39. Hamilton, Bernard. (2005). "The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem". Cambridge University Press.
40. (1990). "William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East". Cambridge University Press Archive.
41. Jackson, W. H.. (1994). "Chivalry in Twelfth-century Germany: The Works of Hartmann Von Aue". Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
42. (2017). "The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350: Essays by German Historians". Routledge.