Loquats and Mountain Bird, anonymous artist of the Southern Song Dynasty ; paintings in leaf album style such as this were popular in the Southern Song ( 1127 – 1279 ).

* 1127 – Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing ( Kaifeng ), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty.

* Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095 – 1127, trans.

* William II, Duke of Apulia ( 1095 – 1127 )

* Emperor Go-Shirakawa ( 1127 – 92, r. 1155 – 58 and cloistered rule 1158 – 92 )

** 1127 – 1192 Imperial Prince Masahito ( 雅仁親王 ) – later Emperor Go-Shirakawa

* April 26 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan ( b. 1127 )

* November 4 – Felix of Valois, French saint ( b. 1127 )

* June 28 – Emperor Xiaozong of China ( b. 1127 )

The earliest known depiction of a fishing reel comes from a Southern Song ( 1127 – 1279 ) painting done in 1195 by Ma Yuan ( c. 1160 – 1225 ) called " Angler on a Wintry Lake ," showing a man sitting on a small sampan boat while casting out his fishing line.

During the Northern Song (, 960 – 1127 ), the Song capital was in the northern city of Bianjing ( now Kaifeng ) and the dynasty controlled most of inner China.

The Southern Song (, 1127 – 1279 ) refers to the period after the Song lost control of northern China to the Jin Dynasty.

The remaining Song forces regrouped under the self-proclaimed Emperor Gaozong ( 1127 – 1162 ), and withdrew south of the Yangtze River to establish the Song Dynasty's new capital at Lin ' an ( in modern Hangzhou ).

1090 – d. 29 December 1127 ), Abbess of Quedlinburg ( 1110 ) and Gandersheim ( 1111 ).

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* Charles I, Count of Flanders, Blessed Charles the Good, ( 1080 / 86 Denmark – 1127 Bruges ), count of Flanders

The time from the Five Dynasties period to the Northern Song period ( 907 – 1127 ) is known as the " Great age of Chinese landscape ".

* Godbald ( 1114 – 1127 )

* Andreas van Cuijk ( 1127 / 8 – 1139 )

During the Northern Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1127 ), the sixteen ceded prefectures continued to be an area of hot contention between Song China and the Liao Dynasty.

Furthermore, the murder of Charles I, Count of Flanders in 1127 gave Louis the opportunity to install William as the new Count of Flanders, thus setting him up to be a strong rival of Matilda.

Canute's son Carl became Count of Flanders from 1119 to 1127, ruling as Charles the Good.

Like his father, Charles was martyred in a church by rebels ( in Bruges, 1127 ).

The murder of Count Charles the Good of Flanders on 2 March 1127 gave King Louis an even better chance to further William ’ s fortunes.

After the murder of his cousin Charles the Good in 1127, Thierry claimed the county of Flanders as grandson of Robert I, but William Clito became count instead with the support of King Louis VI of France.

Blessed Charles the Good ( 1083 – March 2, 1127 ) was Count of Flanders from 1119 to 1127.

On the morning of March 2, 1127, as Charles knelt in prayer in the church of St. Donatian, a group of knights answering to the Erembald family entered the church and hacked him to death with broadswords.

* Laurent Feller, L ' assassinat de Charles le Bon comte de Flandre: 2 mars 1127, Paris, Perrin, 2012, ISBN 978-2262035280.

After the assassination of Charles the Good in 1127, the Flemish succession was again in dispute.

The seeds of heraldic structure in personal identification can be detected in the account in a contemporary chronicle of Henry I of England, on the occasion of his knighting his son-in-law Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, in 1127.

In 1127, William Clito, a potential claimant to the English throne, seemed likely to become the Count of Flanders ; Stephen was sent by the king on a mission to prevent this, and in the aftermath of his successful election, William Clito attacked Stephen's lands in neighbouring Boulogne in retaliation.

Count Gerard's son Gerard II in 1127 acquired the County of Zutphen in northern Hamaland by marriage.

In 1127 Conrad upon the assassination of his nephew Count William III claimed the inheritance of the County of Burgundy against Count Renaud III of Mâcon.

He began his rule as Count of Sicily in 1105, later became Duke of Apulia and Calabria ( 1127 ), then King of Sicily ( 1130 ).

* William IX the Troubadour ( or the Younger ) ( 1086 – 1127 ), son of William VIII, also Count of Poitiers and Duke of Gascony.

* William X the Saint ( 1127 – 37 ), son of William IX, also Count of Poitiers and Duke of Gascony.

Count Meinhard of the Bavarian Meinhardiner noble limeage, with possessions around Lienz in Tyrol, is mentioned as early as 1107 ; as a vogt of the Patriarchate of Aquileia he was enfeoffed with large estates in the former March of Friuli, including the town of Gorizia, and as early as 1127 called himself a Graf von Görz.

King Henry I of England had defeated his brother Robert Curthose, made an enemy of Robert's son William Clito ( who became Count of Flanders in 1127 ), and used his paternal inheritance to claim the Duchy of Normandy and the Kingdom of England.

* Joanna, who married William Clito, Count of Flanders, in 1127, and was widowed a year later

Founded in 1093 as a priory of Affligem Abbey ( in modern Belgium ) by the first Count Palatine of the Rhine Heinrich II von Laach and his wife Adelheid von Orlamünde-Weimar, widow of Hermann II of Lotharingia, Laach became an independent house in 1127, under its first abbot, Gilbert.

In 1127 the town received a communal charter from William Clito, count of Flanders.