a reliquary to house purported pieces of the True Cross. Births January 6 – Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II (d. 1189) October 27 – Raymond VI, French nobleman (d. 1222) Abu Said al-Baji, Almohad Sufi scholar (d. 1231) Gaucelm Faidit, French troubadour (d. 1209) Hōjō Masako, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1225) Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1204) Magnus V Erlingsson, king of Norway (d. 1184) Robert of Auxerre, French chronicler (d. 1212) Sayf al-Din al-Amidi, Ayyubid jurist (d. 1233) Zhang Congzheng, Chinese physician (d. 1228) Deaths January 17 – André de Montbard, French nobleman January 20 – Henry, English bishop and missionary January 31 – Herman van Horne, bishop of Utrecht July 20 – Toba, Japanese emperor (b. 1103) August 4 – Otto IV, German nobleman (b. 1083) August 12 – Blanca of Navarre, queen of Castile November 20 – Henry I, German nobleman (b. 1115) December 2 – William IX, count of Poitiers (b. 1153) December 25 Peter the Venerable, French monk and abbot Sverker I (the Elder), king of Sweden Atsiz, Persian ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire Domenico Morosini, doge of Venice (House of Morosini) Fujiwara no Sadanobu, Japanese calligrapher (b. 1088) Fujiwara no Taishi, Japanese empress (b. 1095) Fujiwara no Yorinaga, Japanese statesman (b. 1120) Gilbert de Gant, English nobleman (b. 1126) Li Qingzhao, Chinese female poet (b. 1084) Mas'ud I, Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate of Rum Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Japanese general (b. 1096) Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair, Irish king (b. 1088) References