12th century

(11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Significant people 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Decades and years

Events

\n* Song dynasty loses power over Northern China\n* First, Second, and Third Crusades of western European kingdoms against Islam\n* Pope Adrian IV granted overlordship of Ireland to Henry II of England.\n* Suger rebuilds the abbey church at St Denis north of Paris, seen as first Gothic building\n* Portugal declares independence from the kingdom of León and Castille in 1139 (traditionally said to have been recognised by Leon and Castille in 1143). \n* Nalanda, the great Indian Buddhist educational centre, was destroyed.\n* Thomas Becket murdered in 1170.

Significant people

\n* Pierre Abélard, one of the first scholastic philosophers\n* Bernard of Clairvaux, French abbot influential in church politics\n* Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria who resisted the Crusaders\n* Hugh of St. Victor, French scholar\n* Richard of St. Victor, theologian\n* Alfonso I Henriques, first King of Portugal\n* Maimonides, leading Jewish philosopher\n* Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

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Decades and years

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