1172 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Duke Richard of Aquitaine becomes Duke of Poitiers. He later becomes King Richard I of England.
• Pope Gregory VIII hosts the Council of Avranches where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assasination of Thomas Becket
• The Synod of Cashel ended the Celtic Christian system and brought them under Rome.

Births

• Fujiwara Moroie, last of the Japanese Fujiwara Regents

Deaths

• Agnes, daughter of Italian Count Amadeus III of Savoy