1120s 1130s in art 1140s Art timeline The decade of the 1130s in art involved some significant events. 1135: Illuminated manuscript Melisende Psalter published...

The 1130s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1130, and ended on December 31, 1139. January 22 – Jin–Song Wars: Jin forces take...

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1120s in art 1130s Art timeline The decade of the 1120s in art involved some significant events. 1121: Unknown artist sculpts Prince Shōtoku in Hōryū-ji...

corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources...

1130s 1140s in art 1150s Art timeline The decade of the 1140s in art involved some significant events. 1145: oldest known Jesse Tree window completed 1148:...

Heian period illustrated handscrolls of The Tale of Genji, dating to the 1130s. Along with one other scroll from the same set, now preserved at the Gotoh...

was a Catholic military order founded by Crusaders during the 1130s at a leper hospital in Jerusalem, Kingdom of Jerusalem, whose care became its original...

Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 12th century, or later depending on region. The preceding...

Kara Arslan – who has made an alliance with Joscelin II, count of Edessa. In support of the alliance Joscelin marches out of Edessa with a Crusader army...

market in Paris. May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded in Wales by Cistercian monks in the Wye Valley. Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in Jiangsu...

The massacre lasts about three weeks; on the rumor of a Byzantine fleet in the offing, Raynald gives the order for embarkation. The Crusader ships are...

the fray under cover of the darkness. March – The French crusaders are left in Adalia; lack of available shipping obliges Louis VII to divide his forces...

authority of Nur al-Din, from Edessa in the north to the Hauran to the south. Nur al-Din establishes the Al-Nuri Hospital in Damascus. The hospital has outpatient...

knights to Bordeaux, along with Abbot Suger in charge of the wedding arrangements. Louis and Eleanor are married in the Cathedral of Saint-André. France unites...

Flanders, Frisia, Scotland and some German polities, leaves from Dartmouth in England for the Holy Land. Leadership is provided by Hervey de Glanvill, a...

year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Count Hugh II (du Puiset), in alliance with the Egyptian city of Ascalon, revolts against King Fulk V of...

former abbey is now the location of an art museum, the Musée Jacquemart-André. Like the museum of the same name in Paris it houses a part of the former...

portals that surfaced in the area of Como in the late eleventh century and developed luxuriously to enrich facades in Pavia in the 1130s, then were disseminated...

Archbishop of Bourges (b. 1085) Verbruggen, J. F. (1997) [1954]. The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages: From the Eighth Century to...

envoys to Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk ruler of Mosul, to seek his protection in exchange of Damascus. Zengi crosses the Euphrates, receiving the surrender...

reign, in which he has regained control over western Anatolia (modern Turkey). He stabilizes his frontiers against the wars with the Normans in the western...

King Baldwin III and his mother, Queen Melisende, are called to intervene in a dispute between Baldwin's aunt Hodierna and her husband Raymond II, count...

Salerno and other cities that have resisted him. Burgsteinfurt Castle is built in what is now Steinfurt (modern Germany). Jin–Song War: Emperor Gao Zong of...

first Margrave. July – Henry II launches a campaign against Owain Gwynedd in north Wales. Although Owain defeats him at the Battle of Ewloe he eventually...

around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, probably by King Fulk for his wife Queen Melisende. It is a notable example of Crusader art, which resulted...

calendar. Spring – Andronikos I Komnenos, son of Isaac Komnenos, is imprisoned in the imperial palace for conspiring against his uncle, Emperor Manuel I (Komenenos)...

the Good, count of Flanders, is murdered by a band of knights while praying in church; he leaves no children. King Louis VI of France appoints William Clito...

confronts Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk ruler (atabeg) of Mosul, near Dara'a in southern Syria. Turkish forces under Mu'in al-Din (supported by the Crusaders)...

weeks (due to constant Seljuk skirmishes) forced to fall back on Afamiya in northern Syria. Winter – Crusaders, led by Baldwin I, besiege Tyre, without...