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Calendar year
Year
1123
(
MCXXIII
) was a
common year starting on Monday
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
.
Events
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By date
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January?March
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April?June
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- April 18
? King
Baldwin II of Jerusalem
is captured by Turkish forces under
Belek Ghazi
? while preparing to practice
falconry
near Gargar on the
Euphrates
. Most of the Crusader army is massacred, and Baldwin is taken to the castle at
Kharput
. To save the situation the
Venetians
are asked to help. Doge
Domenico Michiel
lifts the siege of
Corfu
(see
1122
) and takes his fleet to
Acre
, arriving at the port in the end of May.
[2]
- May 9
? A fire in the city of
Lincoln
nearly destroys the Lincolnshire town; it is memorialized 600 years later by historian
Paul de Rapin
.
[3]
- May 29
?
Battle of Yibneh
: A Crusader army led by
Eustace Grenier
defeats the
Fatimid
forces (16,000 men) near
Ibelin
. Despite the numerical superiority, Vizier
Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi
is forced to withdraw to
Egypt
while his camp is plundered by the Crusaders. Eustace returns to Jerusalem in triumph, but later dies on
June 15
.
[4]
- May 30
? The Venetian fleet arrives at
Ascalon
and instantly sets about attacking the Fatimid fleet. The Egyptians fall into a trap, caught between two Venetian squadrons, and are destroyed or captured. While sailing back to Acre, the Venetians capture a merchant-fleet of ten richly laden vessels.
[5]
- May
? Baldwin II and
Joscelin I
are rescued by 50
Armenian
soldiers (disguised as monks and merchants) at Kharput. They kill the guards, and infiltrate the castle where the prisoners are kept. Joscelin escapes to seek help. However, the castle is soon besieged by Turkish forces under Belek Ghazi ? and is after some time recaptured. Baldwin and
Waleran of Le Puiset
are moved for greater safety to the castle of
Harran
.
[6]
- June
? King
David IV of Georgia
, nicknamed "Davit IV Aghmashenebeli" ("David the Builder") by his subjects, defeats the
Sultan Mahmud II
of the
Seljuk Empire
(encompassing much of what is now Iraq and Iran).
[7]
July?September
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October?December
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By place
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Middle East
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- The
Pactum Warmundi
: A treaty of alliance, is established between the
Kingdom of Jerusalem
and the
Republic of Venice
at Acre. The Venetians receive a street, with a church, baths and a bakery, free of all obligations, in every town of the kingdom. They are also excused of all tolls and taxes.
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Europe
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By topic
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Religion
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Births
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Deaths
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- February 9
?
Otto
(the Rich), count of
Ballenstedt
(b.
1070
)
- March 4
?
Peter of Pappacarbone
, Italian
abbot
and bishop
- May 3
?
Felicia of Roucy
, queen of
Aragon
and
Navarre
- June 15
?
Eustace Grenier
, French
constable
and
regent
- July 18
?
Bruno di Segni
, Italian
prelate
and bishop
- August 29
?
Eystein I
(Magnusson), king of
Norway
- September 11
?
Marbodius of Rennes
, French
archdeacon
- September 19
?
Taizu
, emperor of the
Jin Dynasty
(b.
1068
)
- September 27
?
Fujiwara no Akisue
, Japanese
nobleman
(b.
1055
)
- December 14
?
Henry IV
, duke of
Carinthia
(
House of Sponheim
)
- Davyd Sviatoslavich
, Kievan prince of
Murom
and
Chernigov
- Henry II
, margrave of
Meissen
and the
Saxon Ostmark
(b.
1103
)
- Langri Tangpa
, Tibetan
Buddhist
monk and master (b.
1054
)
- Louis the Springer
(or Leaper), German nobleman (b.
1042
)
References
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- ^
"St Bartholomew's Hospital: Our history"
.
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk
. Retrieved
2023-03-17
.
- ^
Steven Runciman
(1952).
A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
, p. 131.
ISBN
978-0-241-29876-3
.
- ^
"Fires, Great", in
The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance
, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p.72.
- ^
Steven Runciman (1952).
A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
, pp. 133?134.
ISBN
978-0-241-29876-3
.
- ^
Steven Runciman (1952).
A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
, p. 134.
ISBN
978-0-241-29876-3
.
- ^
Steven Runciman (1952).
A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
, pp. 132?133.
ISBN
978-0-241-29876-3
.
- ^
Lorenzo Pubblici,
Mongol Caucasia: Invasions, Conquest, and Government of a Frontier Region in Thirteenth-Century Eurasia (1204?1295)
(Brill, 2022) p.20
- ^
"Corbeil, William de (d. 1136), by Frank Barlow, in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
- ^
Meynier, Gilbert (2010).
L'Algerie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)
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- ^
Johns, Jeremy (2002).
Arabic administration in Norman Sicily: the royal d?w?n
. Cambridge University Press. p. 85.
ISBN
0-521-81692-0
.
- ^
Paul Fridolin Kehr,
Italia pontificia
, Vol. IX (Weidmann 1962) p.474
- ^
Bernard F. Reilly,
The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla under Queen Urraca, 1109?1126
(Princeton University Press, 1982) p.176
- ^
Jonathan Lyon, (2007). "The Withdrawal of Aged Noblemen into Monastic Communities: Interpreting the Sources from Twelfth-Century Germany", in
Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(De Gruyter, 2007) p.147
- ^
Steven Runciman (1952).
A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
, p. 135.
ISBN
978-0-241-29876-3
.
- ^
Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050?1150".
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
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37
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doi
:
10.2307/3679149
.
JSTOR
3679149
.