Editing 1177

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{{C12 year in topic}}Year '''1177''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCLXXVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January]] &ndash; [[Eystein Meyla]], leader of the [[Birkebeiner]] in [[Norway]], is killed. Sverre Sigurdson (Later, King [[Sverre I]], of [[Norway]]) becomes the new leader.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MbK6BwAAQBAJ&q=Eystein+Meyla+1177&pg=PA1390|title=Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes|last=Grammaticus|first=Saxo|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2015|isbn=9780198705765|editor-last=Friis-Jensen|editor-first=Karsten|series=Oxford Medieval Texts|volume=II|location=Oxford|pages=1390|language=en|translator-last=Fisher|translator-first=Peter}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Leopold V of Austria (Babenberg)|Leopold V]] becomes [[List of rulers of Austria|Duke of Austria]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EvP9cMSmZsgC&q=1177+Leopold+V+austria&pg=PA124|title=Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100–1250|last=Lyon|first=Jonathan R.|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=2012|isbn=9780801467844|location=Ithaca, NY and London|pages=124|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Venice]]: [[Frederick I Barbarossa]] acknowledges [[Pope Alexander III|Alexander III]] as [[Pope]], after a diplomatic mediation by [[Venice Republic|Venetian]] [[Doge (title)|doge]] [[Sebastiano Ziani]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE4GDAAAQBAJ&q=1177+Treaty+of+Venice+Barbarossa+pope&pg=PA122|title=Pope Alexander III (1159–81): The Art of Survival|last=Johrendt|first=Jochen|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|isbn=9781317078371|editor-last=Duggan|editor-first=Anne J.|pages=122|language=en|chapter=The Empire and the Schism|editor-last2=Clarke|editor-first2=Peter D.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U63ApPjeeoUC&q=1177+Holy+Roman+Empire+claims+Rome&pg=PA6|title=Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State|last=Rosand|first=David|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|year=2001|isbn=9780807856635|location=Chapel Hill and London|pages=6|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; The Spanish Award is signed and witnessed by, among others, [[Robert III de Stuteville]] and [[John of Greenford]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalhi01stubuoft|quote=1177 The Spanish Award.|title=The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development|last=Stubbs|first=William|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1874|location=Oxford and London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/constitutionalhi01stubuoft/page/486 486]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |journal=Sussex Archaeological Collections |last=Walcott|first=Mackenzie E. C.|publisher=Sussex Archaeological Society.|year=1878|volume=XXVIII|location=Lewes, England|pages=21|language=en|title=The Bishops of Chichester from Stigand to Sherborne |doi=10.5284/1085498 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[August 1]] &ndash; The Holy Roman Empire renounces any claims on the territory of [[Rome]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2CTAgAAQBAJ&q=1177+Holy+Roman+Empire+territorial+claims+rome&pg=PT534|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|last=Kleinhenz|first=Christopher|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=9781135948801|location=New York and London|pages=504|language=en}}</ref>
*[[September 27]] &ndash; [[Pope Alexander III]] sends a letter to [[Prester John]], believing he is real.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-UASH0jE5cC&q=1177+Pope+Alexander+III+Prester+John&pg=PA13|title=Prisoners of Prester John: The Portuguese Mission to Ethiopia in Search of the Mythical King, 1520-1526|last=Baldridge|first=Cates|publisher=McFarland|year=2014|isbn=9780786490196|location=Jefferson, NC|pages=13|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fFfjDQAAQBAJ&q=1177+Pope+Alexander+III+Prester+John&pg=PA60|title=The Medieval Expansion of Europe|last=Phillips|first=J. R. S.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1988|isbn=9780192891235|location=Oxford and New York|pages=60|language=en}}</ref>
*[[November 25]] &ndash; [[Battle of Montgisard]]: [[Baldwin IV of Jerusalem]] and [[Raynald of Chatillon]] defeat [[Saladin]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqgTAgAAQBAJ&q=1177+Battle+of+Montgisard&pg=PA97|title=Journal of Medieval Military History|last=Ehrlich|first=Michael|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|year=2013|isbn=9781843838609|editor-last=Rogers|editor-first=Clifford J.|location=Suffolk and Rochester, NY|pages=97|language=en|chapter=Saint Catherine's Day Miracle - The Battle of Montgisard|editor-last2=DeVries|editor-first2=Kelly|editor-last3=France|editor-first3=John}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* During the third year of the [[Angen]] era in [[Japan]], [[Great Fire of Angen|a fire]] devastates [[Kyoto]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tomscJO8ny8C&q=1177+Kyoto+fire&pg=PA370|title=The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century|last=Kornicki|first=Peter Francis|publisher=BRILL|year=1998|isbn=9789004101951|location=Leiden, Boston, Köln|pages=370|language=en}}</ref>
* During the winter, the [[Estonians]] attack [[Pskov]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Estonian Theological Society in Exile|date=April 1956|title=Charisteria Iohanni Kõpp octogenario oblata. 304 pp. Stockholm, 1954. $5.00. (Papers of the Estonian Theological Society in Exile, No. 7.) (May be obtained from the Bookstore, Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Maywood, Ill.)|journal=Theology Today|language=en|volume=13|issue=1|pages=129|doi=10.1177/004057365601300124|s2cid=220990258|issn=0040-5736}}</ref>
* [[Casimir II the Just|Casimir II]] overthrows his brother [[Mieszko III the Old]], to become [[List of Polish monarchs|High Duke of Poland]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eLo5AAAAcAAJ|quote=1177 Casimir II poland.|title=A Universal Biography: Including Scriptural, Classical and Mythological Memoirs, Together with Accounts of Many Eminent Living Characters: the Whole Newly Compiled and Composed from the Most Recent and Authentic Sources|last=A'Beckett|first=William|publisher=Isaac, Tuckey, and Company|year=1836|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eLo5AAAAcAAJ/page/n694 686]|language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Cham (Asia)|Cham]] sack the Khmer capital of [[Angkor]]. The date is disputed.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_zRVzX-DBdAC&q=1177+Cham+Angkor+Wat&pg=PA82|title=Adventure Guide Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia|last=Arrowood|first=Janet|publisher=Hunter Publishing, Inc|year=2008|isbn=9781588435200|location=Edison, NH, Quebec and Oxford|pages=82|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUHeBgAAQBAJ&q=1177+Cham+Angkor+Wat&pg=PA400|title=The Cham of Vietnam: History, Society and Art|last1=Phuong|first1=Tran Ky|last2=Lockhart|first2=Bruce|publisher=National University of Singapore Press|year=2011|isbn=9789971694593|location=Singapore|pages=400|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Moscow]] is burned down by [[Grand Duchy of Ryazan|Gleb I, prince of Ryazan]], and its inhabitants are killed.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xno8DwAAQBAJ&q=1177+Moscow+burned&pg=PA35|title=Russian Identities: A Historical Survey|last=Riasanovsky|first=Nicholas V.|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|year=2005|isbn=9780195156508|location=Oxford and New York|pages=35|language=en}}</ref>
* A civil war breaks out in the [[Republic of Florence]], between the Uberti Family and their consular opponent.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QAOAQAAIAAJ&q=1177+Republic+of+florence+civil+war&pg=PA60|title=A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of the Commune to the Fall of the Republic in 1531|last=Trollope|first=Thomas Adolphus|publisher=Chapman and Hall|year=1865|volume=I|location=London|pages=60–61|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHRJDwAAQBAJ&q=1177+Republic+of+florence+civil+war&pg=PA2|title=Machiavelli's Florentine Republic|last=Clarke|first=Michelle T.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2018|isbn=9781107125506|location=Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, New Delhi|pages=1–2|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Puigcerdà]] is founded by [[Alfonso II of Aragon]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSynY9B7XrIC&q=1177+Puigcerda&pg=PA221|title=The Rough Guide to the Pyrenees|last=Dubin|first=Marc|publisher=Rough Guides|year=2004|isbn=9781843531968|location=London, New York|pages=221|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Byland Abbey]] is established on its final site in [[Yorkshire]], England, by the [[Cistercian]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/anattempttodisc01parkgoog|quote=1177 Byland Abbey.|title=An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the Conquest to the Reformation. Preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders, with notices of nearly five hundred English buildings|last1=Rickman|first1=Thomas|last2=Parker|first2=John Henry|publisher=John Henry & James Parker|year=1862|edition=6th|location=Oxford and London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/anattempttodisc01parkgoog/page/n191 172]|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Abbas Benedictus]] becomes abbot of [[Peterborough]] in England.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jwoFAAAAYAAJ&q=1177+Abbas+Benedictus&pg=PA65|title=A Companion to the Fourth Edition of A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture: Containing 400 Additional Examples, a Chronological Table and a General Index|last=Parker|first=John Henry|publisher=John Henry Parker|year=1846|location=Oxford and London|pages=65|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Roger de Moulins]] becomes Grand Master of the [[Knights Hospitaller]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wNY3gLWMqoC&q=1177+Roger+de+Moulins&pg=PA38|title=The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, C.1070-1309|last=Riley-Smith|first=Jonathan|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2012|isbn=9780230290839|location=Basingstoke and New York|pages=38|language=en|chapter=3. Reaching Maturity: 1177 - 1206}}</ref>
* ''possible date'' &ndash; [[Richard FitzNeal]] begins to write his treatise ''[[Dialogus de Scaccario]]'' ("Dialogue concerning the [[Exchequer]]") in [[Kingdom of England|England]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0uGH42NxNEC&q=1177+Dialogus+de+Scaccario&pg=PA230|title=Magna Carta Latina: The Privilege of Singing, Articulating, and Reading a Language and of Keeping it Alive|last1=Rosenstock-Huessy|first1=Eugen|last2=Battles|first2=Ford Lewis|publisher=The Pickwick Press|year=1975|isbn=9780915138074|location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|pages=230|language=en}}</ref></onlyinclude><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdFDAQAAMAAJ&q=FitzNeal&pg=PR96|title=Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores: Or, Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages|last=Duffus Hardy|first=Thomas|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts|year=1865|volume=II: Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the End of the Reign of Henry VII (from A.D. 1066 to A.D. 1200)|location=London|pages=410|language=en}}</ref>
* The union of Egypt and Syria under Sultan [[Saladin]] Yusuf ibn Ayyub, the foundation of the [[Ayyubid Sultanate]].

== Births ==
* [[February]]/[[March]] &ndash; [[Philip of Swabia]], rival of [[Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1208]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4-dAwAAQBAJ&q=1177+Philip+of+Swabia&pg=PA420|title=Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia|last=Newton|first=Michael|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2014|isbn=9781610692861|volume=I: A - P|location=Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO and Oxford|pages=420|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KMZKDwAAQBAJ&q=1177+Philip+of+Swabia&pg=PA91|title=Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe|last1=Coatsworth|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Owen-Crocker|first2=Gale|publisher=BRILL|year=2018|isbn=9789004352162|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=91|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August]] &ndash; [[Baldwin V of Jerusalem|Baldwin V]], [[kingdom of Jerusalem|King of Jerusalem]] (d. [[1186]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIopDwAAQBAJ&q=1177+-+1186+Baldwin+V+jerusalem&pg=PA51|title=Dictionary of World Biography|last=Jones|first=Barry|publisher=Australian National University Press|year=2017|isbn=9781760461263|edition=Fourth |location=Acton, Australia|pages=51|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Marie of Oignies]], French beguin (d. [[1213]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DqhHVb2zp7oC&q=1177+Marie+of+Oignies&pg=PA452|title=Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia|last=Emmerson|first=Richard Kenneth|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2006|isbn=9780415973854|location=New York and London|pages=452|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Prithviraj Chauhan]], Indian ruler of [[Ajmer]] (d. [[1192]])
* [[Sylvester Gozzolini]], Italian founder of the [[Sylvestrines]] (d. [[1267]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.88901|quote=1177 Sylvester Gozzolini.|title=History of Religious Orders: a Compendious and Popular Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Principal Monastic, Canonical, Military, Mendicant, and Clerical Orders and Congregations of the Eastern and Western Churches, Together With a Brief History of the Catholic Church in Relation to Religious Orders|last=Currier|first=Charles Warren|publisher=Murphy & McCarthy|year=1898|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.88901/page/n200 146]|language=en}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Henry II, Duke of Austria]] (b. [[1107]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gWobg3WoPJkC&q=1177+Henry+II+Austria&pg=PA884|title=World and Its Peoples|last=Driver|first=Stephanie|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|year=2010|isbn=9780761478942|volume=Europe 7: Central Europe|location=New York|pages=884|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January]] &ndash; [[Eystein Meyla]], leader of the [[Birkebeiner]] in [[Norway]]. (b. [[1157]])<ref name=":0" />
* [[June]] &ndash; [[William of Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon]], father of Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. early [[1140s]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IySQoHdviNkC&q=1177+William+of+Montferrat&pg=PA117|title=The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem|last=Hamilton|first=Bernard|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780521017473|location=Cambridge, New York|pages=117–118|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/godswarnewhistor00tyer|url-access=registration|quote=1177 William of Montferrat.|title=God's War: A New History of the Crusades|last=Tyerman|first=Christopher|author-link = Christopher Tyerman|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780674023871|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/godswarnewhistor00tyer/page/360 360]|language=en}}</ref>
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk|Hugh Bigod]], 1st [[Earl of Norfolk]] (b. [[1095]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Y-w9AAAAcAAJ|quote=1177 Hugh Bigod.|title=The Historic Peerage of England: Exhibiting, Under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Origin, Descent, and Present State of Every Title of Peerage Which Has Existed in This Country Since the Conquest; Being a New Edition of the "Synopsis of the Peerage of England"|last1=Nicolas|first1=Sir Nicholas Harris|last2=Courthope|first2=William John|publisher=John Murray|year=1857|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Y-w9AAAAcAAJ/page/n429 350]|language=en}}</ref>

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