1160s in England

Events from the 1160s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Henry II of England

Events

• 1160
  • 2 November - Marriage of Henry the Young King and Marguerite, daughter of Louis VII of France; King Henry II takes control of Norman Vexin.^[1]
• 1161
  • Canonisation of Edward the Confessor.^[1]
• 1162
  • 3 June - Thomas Becket consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury and resigns as Lord Chancellor.^[2]
  • Becket decrees that Trinity Sunday should henceforth be celebrated in England.^[1]
  • King Henry II raises the Danegeld (by now, merely a royal tax) for the last time.^[2]
• 1163
  • January - Henry II suppresses a revolt in Wales, and captures Prince Rhys ap Gruffydd.^[1]
  • 1 July - Henry calls the Welsh princes and King Malcolm IV of Scotland to do homage at Woodstock Palace; the Welsh rebel.^[1]
  • 1 October - Becket resists Henry II's demands to extend the jurisdiction of secular courts to the clergy.^[2]
  • 13 October - The bones of Edward the Confessor are translated to Westminster Abbey.^[1]
  • John of Salisbury completes his Life of Anselm.^[1]
• 1164
  • January - Henry II enacts the Constitutions of Clarendon in an attempt to exert power over the church.^[2]
  • 2 November - Becket found guilty of contempt of court and exiled to France.^[2]
• 1165
  • July - Henry II fails to quell a rebellion in Wales.^[2]
• 1166
  • Henry II enacts the Assize of Clarendon, reforming the law and defining the legal duties of sheriffs.^[2]
  • July - Henry conquers Brittany, granting the territory to his son Geoffrey.^[1]
• 1167
  • The exiled former King of Leinster, Dermot MacMurrough, pays homage to Henry, and recruits support for an invasion of Ireland.^[1]
  • Increased enrolment at Oxford University after English students are barred from attending Paris University.^[1]
• 1168
  • 1 February - Henry II's daughter, Matilda, marries Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony.^[2]
• 1169
  • January - Treaty of Montmirail: Henry II agrees to divide his French territories amongst his sons; Aquitaine to Richard, Brittany to Geoffrey, and the remainder to Henry.^[1]
  • 1 May - Norman barons land an invasion force at Wexford in support of Dermot.^[1]

Births

• 1162
  • 13 October — Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)
  • Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (died 1218)
• 1165
  • October - Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, daughter of Henry II of England (died 1199)
• 1166
  • 24 December — John of England (died 1216)
  • William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (died 1240)

Deaths

• 1161
  • 18 April - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1167
  • 10 September - Empress Matilda, first female ruler of England (born 1102)
  • Robert of Melun, theologian and bishop
• 1168
  • 5 April — Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Justiciar (born 1104)

References

See also