He grants the territory to his 7-year-old son Geoffrey. Henry II enacts the Assize of Clarendon, reforming English law, with the aim of improving the justice process, including the jury system. William Marshal, a Norman statesman, described as "the greatest knight that ever lived", is knighted while on campaign in Normandy. Ireland Muirchertach mac Lochlainn, High King of Ireland, is killed. He is succeeded by Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht, who defeats Diarmaid mac Murchadha (or Dermot) in battle, another ruler in eastern Ireland. Births February 24 – Al-Mansur Abdallah, Zaidi imam (d. 1217) July 29 – Henry I (or Henry II), king of Jerusalem (d. 1197) December 24 – John, king of England (d. 1216) Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, Moorish pharmacist (d. 1239) Alan IV (the Young), viscount of Rohan (d. 1205) Arnold of Altena, German nobleman (d. 1209) Choe U, Korean general and dictator (d. 1249) Humphrey IV, lord of Toron (approximate date) Judah ben Isaac Messer, French rabbi (b. 1224) Odo III (or Eudes), duke of Burgundy (d. 1218) Philip d'Aubigny, English nobleman (d. 1236) Prithviraj Chauhan, Indian ruler of Ajmer (d. 1192) Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (d. 1227) Shunten (or Shunten-Ō), Ryukyu ruler (d. 1237) Tamar the Great, queen of Georgia (d. 1213) Wansong Xingxiu, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 1246) William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240) Deaths February 21 – Abdul Qadir Gilani, Persian preacher (b. 1078) April 9 – Waleran de Beaumont, English nobleman (b. 1104) May 7 – William I (the wicked), king of Sicily (b. 1120) Ahmad Yasawi, Turkic Sufi religious leader (b. 1093) Athanasius VII bar Qatra, Syrian patriarch of Antioch Fujiwara no Motozane, Japanese waka poet (b. 1143) Gillamaire Ua Conallta, Irish poet and Chief Ollam Grigor III, Armenian catholicos of Cilicia (b. 1093) Konoe Motozane, Japanese nobleman (b. 1143) Muirchertach mac Lochlainn, High King of Ireland Rosalia, Norman nobleman and saint (b. 1130) References