1169

[edit] Events

• Nur ad-Din invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din, as well as vizier of Cairo.
• Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks the Kievan Rus' capital Kiev.
• The conquest of Ireland begins. Richard fitzGilbert de Clare ('Strongbow') makes an alliance with the exiled Irish chief, Dermot MacMurrough, to help him recover his kingdom of Leinster.
• Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her great court in Poitiers, where the Courts of Love flourish.

[edit] Births

• September 10 — Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 — Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109)
• July 9 — Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian
• Stephen du Perche, chancellor of Sicily and archbishop of Palermo