1169

Events

Nur ad-Din invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din.

Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks the Kievan Rus' capital Kiev.

Start of the conquest of Ireland. Richard_de_Clare,_2nd_Earl_of_Pembroke|Richard fitzGilbert de Clare ('Strongbow') makes an alliance with the exiled Irish chief, Diarmait Mac Murchada|Dermot MacMurrough, to help him recover his kingdom of Leinster.

Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II of England|Henry II to establish her great court in Poitiers where the Courts of Love flourished.

Births

September 10 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)

Deaths

January 2 - Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar

Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian