1119 CE

Battle of Ager Sanguinis: The Crusader army of the Principality of Antioch under Roger of Salerno is ambushed and annihilated near Sarmada by the combined Muslim forces (20,000 men) of Ilghazi, the Artuqid ruler of Aleppo. Muslim troops are sent to raid the suburbs of Antioch and sack the port of Saint Symeon. The Crusader fortresses at Atarib, Zardana, Sarmin, Ma'arrat al-Nu'man and Kafr Tab are captured. Ilghazi makes a triumphant entry at Aleppo, Crusader prisoners are dragged in chains – where they are tortured to death in the streets. The massacre leads to the name of the battle, Ager Sanguinis (or "the Field of Blood"). Battle of Hab: The Crusaders under King Baldwin II of Jerusalem (supported by forces of Pons, Count of Tripoli) defeat Ilghazi's army at Ariha in Syria. Baldwin manages to re-capture all of the Crusader castles and returns to Antioch in triumph. He stabilizes the frontiers and prevents Ilghazi from marching on Antioch. A severe earthquake hits Gloucestershire and Warwickshire.

In the 1110s, the 12th century.

Conflict & Security

  • June 28 – Battle of Ager Sanguinis: The Crusader army of the Principality of Antioch under Roger of Salerno is ambushed and annihilated near Sarmada by the combined Muslim forces (20,000 men) of Ilghazi, the Artuqid ruler of Aleppo. Muslim troops are sent to raid the suburbs of Antioch and sack the port of Saint Symeon. The Crusader fortresses at Atarib, Zardana, Sarmin, Ma'arrat al-Nu'man and Kafr Tab are captured. Ilghazi makes a triumphant entry at Aleppo, Crusader prisoners are dragged in chains – where they are tortured to death in the streets. The massacre leads to the name of the battle, Ager Sanguinis (or "the Field of Blood").source
  • August 14 – Battle of Hab: The Crusaders under King Baldwin II of Jerusalem (supported by forces of Pons, Count of Tripoli) defeat Ilghazi's army at Ariha in Syria. Baldwin manages to re-capture all of the Crusader castles and returns to Antioch in triumph. He stabilizes the frontiers and prevents Ilghazi from marching on Antioch.source
  • August 20 – Battle of Brémule: King Henry I of England defeats King Louis VI ("the Fat") of France and his 400 knights in Normandy. A skirmish that begins with the French launching a fierce but disordered attack, and ends with the French turning tail. Louis agrees to make peace and formally recognizes William Adelin as duke of Normandy.source

Religion & Belief

  • March – Olegarius Bonestruga, archbishop of Tarragona, preaches successfully a Crusade against the Moors in Catalonia.source
  • Council of Reims: The Catholic Church condemned those who have seized ecclesiastical property, prohibited charging a fee for burial or sacrament, banned priests, deacons and sub-deacons from having wives or mistresses, condemned simony, and reaffirmed Emperor Henry V's excommunication.source
  • Council of Toulouse: The Catholic Church condemned anyone who denied the Eucharist, infant baptism, ordination of priests, and lawful marriage as a heretic.source
  • Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, grants and confirms the church of St. Hilda of Middlesbrough to Whitby.source
  • Máel Máedóc Ua Morgair (Saint Malachy) was made a priest, as vicar to Celsus.Irelandsource

Technology & Infrastructure

  • Zhu Yu, a Chinese historian, publishes his book Pingzhou Table Talks, describing the earliest known use of bulkheads to provide separate hull compartments in ships. Zhu Yu's book is also the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea. (The first actual description, however, of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays, published in 1088.)source
  • The Two Towers in Bologna are completed.source

Climate & Environment

Births

  • February 28 – Xi Zong, Chinese emperor (died 1150)source
  • July 7 – Sutoku, Japanese emperor (died 1164)source
  • Tancred, Norman nobleman (approximate date)source
  • Ahmed-Al-Kabeer, Arab Sufi teacher (died 1182)source
  • William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey (died 1148)source
  • Aldebrandus, bishop of Fossombrone (died 1219)source
  • Matthias I, duke of Lorraine (approximate date)source

Deaths

  • January 29 – Pope Gelasius II dies in exile after a 1-year pontificate at the Abbey of Cluny. He is succeeded by Callixtus II as the 162nd pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • January 29 – Gelasius II, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • February – Geoffrey de Clive, English bishopsource
  • March 10 – Muirchertach Ua Briain, Irish king of Munstersource
  • March 29 – Peter de Honestis, Lombard monksource
  • June 20 – Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick, Norman noblemansource
  • June 28 – Roger of Salerno, Norman noblemansource
  • July 17 – Baldwin VII, count of Flanders (born 1093)source
  • July 22 – Herbert de Losinga, English bishopsource
  • August 4 – Landulf II, archbishop of Beneventosource
  • August – Robert the Leper, French nobleman in the Principality of Antioch, executedsource
  • September 13 – Gleb Vseslavich, Kievan princesource
  • October 13 – Alan IV, duke of Brittany (born 1063)source
  • Wang Ximeng, Chinese painter (born 1096)source
  • c.10 March – Muirchertach Ua Briain, reigning King of Munster since 1086 and claimant to the Kingship of IrelandIrelandsource
  • Aedh Ua Con Ceannainn, King of Uí Díarmata.Irelandsource