1120s in England

Events from the 1120s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Henry I of England

Events

• 1120
  • 25 November - Sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel. King Henry I of England's only legitimate son, William Adelin, drowns.^[1]
• 1121
  • Henry I marries Adeliza of Louvain.^[2]
  • Reading Abbey re-founded.^[3]
• 1122
• 1123
  • 18 February - William de Corbeil enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Louis VI of France supports rebels against English rule in Normandy.^[2]
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital in London founded.^[1]
  • First Bishop of Bath consecrated.^[2]
• 1124
  • Henry I unsuccessfully invades France, having defeated rebels in Normandy.^[2]
  • Moneyers punished by castration following run-away inflation.^[2]
• 1125
  • William of Malmesbury completes his histories of England, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum.^[2]
• 1126
  • Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York declared equal.^[2]
  • 25 December - Henry I asks his nobles to recognise Empress Matilda as his heir.^[4]
• 1127
  • 1 January - English nobles accept Matilda as heir.^[2]
• 1128
  • 17 June - Matilda marries Geoffrey Martel, heir to the Count of Anjou.^[2]
  • Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley.^[5]
• 1129
  • Henry of Blois becomes Bishop of Winchester.^[2]

Births

• 1125
  • Renaud de Courtenay, noble (died 1194)

Deaths

• 1120
  • 25 November - William Adelin, son of Henry I (born 1103)
• 1122
  • 20 October - Ralph d'Escures, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1124
  • 15 March - Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester (born 1040, France)
• 1126
  • Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (born 1052)
• 1128
  • 5 September - Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham
• 1129
  • January - Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester (born 1074, France)
  • Symeon of Durham, chronicler

References

See also