Editing 1159 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Władysław II the Exile|Wladislaus II, the Exile of Poland]] (b. [[1105]])<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265972610|title=Rome, Constantinople and Newly-converted Europe: Archaeological and Historical Evidence|last1=Salamon|first1=Maciej|last2=Hardt|first2=Matthias|last3=Kruk|first3=Mirosław Piotr|last4=Sulikowska|first4=Aleksandra|publisher=Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas|year=2012|isbn=9788389499851|location=Kraków, Leipzig, Rzeszów, Warszawa|pages=215|language=en|chapter=The Archetypal Crusader. Henry of Sandomierz, the Second Youngest Son of Bolesław III by Darius Von Güttner-Sporzyński|quote=Within the decade of his birth Henry’s father died, and Henry’s elder half-brother Władysław ii Wygnaniec (the exile [1105-1159]) ascended the Polish throne.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5eNRAgAAQBAJ&q=1159+W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw+II+the+Exile&pg=PA175|title=Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900–c.1300|last1=Berend|first1=Nora|last2=Urbańczyk|first2=Przemysław|last3=Wiszewski|first3=Przemysław|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2013|isbn=9781107651395|series=Cambridge Medieval Textbooks|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=175|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Bertha of Sulzbach]], Byzantine Empress (b. [[1110s]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gWGAgAAQBAJ&q=1159+Bertha+of+Sulzbach&pg=PA201|title=Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204|last=Garland|first=Lynda|author-link=Lynda Garland |publisher=Routledge|year=1999|isbn=9781134756391|location=London and New York|pages=201|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fkQOAQAAIAAJ&q=1159+Bertha+of+Sulzbach|title=A History of the Crusades: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187|last=Runciman|first=Steven|publisher=University Press|year=1954|isbn=9780521061636|pages=359|language=en|quote=About the end of the year 1159 the Empress Irene, born Bertha of Sulzbach, had died leaving only a daughter behind her.}}</ref>
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Pope Adrian IV]] (b. c. [[1100]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2CTAgAAQBAJ&q=1159+Pope+Adrian+IV&pg=PT517|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|last=Eden|first=Bradford Lee|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=9781135948801|editor-last=Kleinhenz|editor-first=Christopher|location=New York and London|pages=487|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mq7ctwMNdoC&q=1159+Pope+Hadrian+IV&pg=PA25|title=Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendants of the Popes|last=Williams|first=George L.|publisher=McFarland|year=2004|isbn=9780786420711|location=Jefferson, NC and London|pages=25|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjixCwAAQBAJ&q=1159+Pope+Hadrian+IV&pg=PA45|title=Historical Tables 58 BC – AD 1990|last=Steinberg|first=S. H.|publisher=Springer|year=1991|isbn=9781349127467|edition=  12th |location=London and Basigstoke|pages=45|language=en|orig-year=1939}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[William I, Count of Boulogne|William of Blois]], [[Count of Boulogne]] and [[Earl of Surrey]] (b. c. [[1137]])<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K48jAQAAMAAJ&q=1159+William+of+Blois&pg=PA216|title=The History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of William and Mary in 1688|last=Lingard|first=John|publisher=James Duffy & Sons|year=1874|location=Dublin|pages=216|language=en|chapter=Chapter VIII: William I, Surnamed The Conqueror}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxc1DQAAQBAJ&q=1159+William+of+Blois&pg=PA202|title=Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230|last=McDougall|first=Sara|author-link=Sara McDougall|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=9780198785828|location=Oxford and New York|pages=202|language=en|quote=In 1159 William "Longsword", count of Boulogne, earl of Warenne by right of his wife, the son of King Stephen of England and his wife Matilda of Boulogne, died without issue.}}</ref>
* [[Joscelin II, Count of Edessa]]<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axNbLoiLLgMC&q=1159+Joscelin+II&pg=PA91|title=Texts, documents, and artefacts [electronic resource]: Islamic studies in honour of D.S. Richards|last=Hillenbrand|first=Carol|publisher=BRILL|year=2003|isbn=9789004128644|editor-last=Robinson|editor-first=Chase F.|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=91|language=en|chapter=The Imprisonment of Reynald at Châtillon}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HrqqhduBapQC&q=1159+Joscelin+II&pg=PA36|title=The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)|last=Dashdondog|first=Bayarsaikhan|publisher=BRILL|year=2011|isbn=9789004186354|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=36|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BjA-GcRHHoC&q=1159+Joscelin+II&pg=PA84|title=The A to Z of the Crusades|last=Slack|first=Corliss K.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2003|isbn=9780810863316|location=Lanham, MD and Plymouth, UK|pages=84|language=en}}</ref>