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1140s in England, the Glossary

Events from the 1140s in England.^[1]

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Addingrove

Addingrove is a former hamlet in Buckinghamshire, about northwest of the market town of Thame in neighbouring Oxfordshire.

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Afonso IOr also Affonso (Archaic Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin version), sometimes rendered in English as Alphonzo or Alphonse, depending on the Spanish or French influence.

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Alchemy

Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.

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Algebra

Algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies algebraic structures and the manipulation of statements within those structures.

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Anglo-Normans

The Anglo-Normans (Anglo-Normaunds, Engel-Norðmandisca) were the medieval ruling class in the Kingdom of England following the Norman Conquest.

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Anselm of St Saba

Anselm (died 1148) was a medieval bishop of London whose election was quashed by Pope Innocent II.

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Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Archbishop of York

The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury.

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Aubrey de Vere II

Aubrey de Vere (c. 1085 – May 1141) – also known as "Alberic de Ver" and "Albericus regis camerarius" (the king's chamberlain) – was the second of that name in England after the Norman Conquest, being the eldest surviving son of Aubrey de Vere and his wife Beatrice.

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Battle of Lincoln (1141)

The Battle of Lincoln, or the First Battle of Lincoln, occurred on 2 February 1141 in Lincoln, England between King Stephen of England and forces loyal to Empress Matilda.

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Battle of Wilton

The Battle of Wilton was a battle of the civil war in England known as The Anarchy.

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Bishop of Durham

The bishop of Durham is responsible for the diocese of Durham in the province of York.

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Blood libel

Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic canardTurvey, Brent E. Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, Academic Press, 2008, p. 3.

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Boarstall

Boarstall is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, about west of Aylesbury.

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Brill, Buckinghamshire

Brill is a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England, close to the border with Oxfordshire.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Carlisle

Carlisle (from Caer Luel) is a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cumbria in England.

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County of Flanders

The County of Flanders was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of what is now Belgium.

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Coventry

Coventry is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne.

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Crusader states

The Crusader states, or Outremer, were four Catholic polities that existed in the Levant from 1098 to 1291.

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Dartmouth, Devon

Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon.

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David I of Scotland

David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern Gaelic: Daibhidh I mac Chaluim; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th century ruler and saint who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153.

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Douro

The Douro (Duero; Mirandese: Douro ˈdowɾʊ; Durius) is the largest river of the Iberian Peninsula by discharge.

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Dryburgh Abbey

Dryburgh Abbey, near Dryburgh on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, was nominally founded on 10 November (Martinmas) 1150 in an agreement between Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland, and the Premonstratensian canons regular from Alnwick Abbey in Northumberland.

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Duchy of Normandy

The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and the Viking leader Rollo.

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Ely, Cambridgeshire

Ely is a cathedral city and civil parish in the East Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about north-northeast of Cambridge, south east of Peterborough and from London.

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Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda (10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Faringdon Castle

Faringdon Castle was a Norman castle standing just outside the market town of Faringdon in the English county of Berkshire (administratively now Oxfordshire), some 17 km to the northeast of Swindon.

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Frisia

Frisia is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe.

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Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex

Geoffrey de Mandeville II, 1st Earl of Essex (died September 1144) was a prominent figure during the reign of King Stephen of England.

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Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou

Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Fair (le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by his marriage claim, and conquest, from 1144.

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Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Gilbert fitz Gilbert de Clare (6 January 1148), was created Earl of Pembroke in 1138.

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Henry II of England

Henry II, also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.

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Henry of Huntingdon

Henry of Huntingdon (Henricus Huntindoniensis; 1088 – 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian and the author of Historia Anglorum (Medieval Latin for "History of the English"), as "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy".

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Hervey de Glanvill

Hervey de Glanvill (fl. c. 1140–50) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader.

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Holy Land

The Holy Land is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine.

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Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester

Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester (1147 – 30 June 1181), also written Hugh de Kevilioc, was an Anglo-Norman magnate who was active in England, Wales, Ireland and France during the reign of King Henry II of England.

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Imad al-Din Zengi

Imad al-Din Zengi (عماد الدین زنكي; – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of the Seljuk Empire, who ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lincoln, England

Lincoln is a cathedral city and district in Lincolnshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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Lord Great Chamberlain

The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is the sixth of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Privy Seal but above the Lord High Constable.

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Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne

Matilda (c.1105 – 3 May 1152) was Countess of Boulogne in her own right from 1125 and Queen of England from the accession of her husband, Stephen, in 1135 until her death in 1152.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Monarchy of the United Kingdom

The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers regulated by the British Constitution.

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Moors

The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Norwich

Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town.

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Oakley, Buckinghamshire

Oakley is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Orderic Vitalis

Orderic Vitalis (Ordericus Vitalis; 16 February 1075 –) was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th- and 12th-century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxford Castle

Oxford Castle is a large, partly ruined medieval castle on the western side of central Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.

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Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester

Ranulf II (also known as Ranulf de Gernon), 4th Earl of Chester (1099–1153), was an Anglo-Norman baron who inherited the honour of the palatine county of Chester upon the death of his father Ranulf Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester.

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Robert of Chester

Robert of Chester (Latin: Robertus Castrensis) was an English Arabist of the 12th century.

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Robert of Ketton

Robert of Ketton, known in Latin as Rodbertus Ketenensis (1141–1157), was an English astronomer, translator, priest and diplomat active in Spain.

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Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester

Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090 – 31 October 1147David Crouch, 'Robert, first earl of Gloucester (b. c. 1090, d. 1147)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006) (alias Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen (Latinised to Robertus de Cadomo), Robert Consul) was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England.

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Rout of Winchester

In the Rout of Winchester (14 September 1141) the army of imprisoned King Stephen of England, led by his wife, Queen Matilda of Boulogne, Stephen's brother Bishop Henry of Blois, and William of Ypres, faced the army of Stephen's cousin Empress Matilda, whose forces were commanded by her half-brother Earl Robert of Gloucester.

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Second Crusade

The Second Crusade (1147–1150) was the second major crusade launched from Europe.

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Seneschal

The word seneschal can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context.

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Serlo (abbot of Cirencester)

Serlo (died c. 1148) was a medieval abbot of Cirencester Abbey in England as well as Dean of Salisbury.

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Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests

The Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests is a position established by the Normans in England.

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Siege of Edessa (1144)

The siege of Edessa (Arabic, fatḥ al-Ruhāʾ) took place from 28 November to 24 December 1144, resulting in the fall of the capital of the County of Edessa to Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.

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Siege of Lisbon (1142)

In or about 1142 according to a brief reference in the Anglo-Norman text known as De expugnatione Lyxbonensi and the Portuguese text known as the Chronica Gothorum, a group of Anglo-Norman crusaders on their way to Jerusalem were invited by King Afonso I Henriques of Portugal to participate in an attempt to capture the Almoravid-controlled city of Lisbon.

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St Frideswide's Priory

St Frideswide's Priory was established as a priory of Augustinian canons regular in Oxford in 1122.

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Stephen, King of England

Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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The Anarchy

The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1138 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order.

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Thurstan

Thurstan or Turstin of Bayeux (– 6 February 1140) was a medieval Archbishop of York, the son of a priest.

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William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey

William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey (11196 January 1148) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, member of the House of Warenne, who fought in England during the Anarchy and generally remained loyal to King Stephen.

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William FitzRalph

William FitzRalph was the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests from 1169 to 1177.

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William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146 or 1147 – 14 May 1219), also called William the Marshal (Norman French: Williame li Mareschal, French: Guillaume le Maréchal), was an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman during High Medieval England who served five English kings: Henry II and his son and co-ruler Young Henry, Richard I, John, and finally Henry III.

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