On 22 July 1139, at Galluccio, Roger II's son Roger III, Duke of Apulia, ambushed the papal troops with a thousand knights and captured Innocent.

On 25 July 1139, Innocent was forced to acknowledge the kingship and possessions of Roger with the Treaty of Mignano.

* 1139: On July 5, in the Treaty of Mignano, Pope Innocent II confirms Roger II as King of Sicily, Duke of Apulia, and Prince of Capua and invests him with his titles.

On July 25, 1139 he defeated the combined forces of the Moors on the plains of Ourique, in Alentejo.

On 18 February 1139 he succeeded his brother Yaropolk II of Kiev as Grand Prince, but was driven out in March by Vsevolod II of Kiev.

On August 18, 1876, he was elected mayor, winning 672 votes out of 1139 ; in this position he was active in convincing the Dakota Territories to officially recognize the town and establish a nearby Army post, as well as instituting a pest house to quarantine those with communicable diseases ( a smallpox epidemic striking the town in 1876 ) and a system of street cleaning, all to be funded out of licensing fees for town businesses.

On March 29, 1139, Pope Innocent II issued the bull Omne Datum Optimum, which exempted the order from tithes and made them independent of any ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

On November 12, 1139, in the naval Battle of Holmengrå ( Slaget ved Holmengrå ) near Hvaler in Oslofjord, the Danish supported forces of Magnus and Sigurd were put against supporters of King Inge I of Norway, who was still a child.

On June 22, 1139, Shihab ad-Din was assassinated in Damascus ; Jamal ad-Din, emir of Baalbek, was chosen as his successor, and Mu ' in ad-Din was chosen to govern Baalbek in his absence.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

His campaigns were successful and, on July 25, 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of Portugal by his soldiers.

In the summer of 1139, Innocent II invaded the kingdom with a large army, but was ambushed at Galluccio on ( 22 July 1139 ), southeast of present-day Cassino, by Roger's son and was captured.

The Battle of Ourique ( 25 July 1139: St. James Day ) saw the forces of Portuguese Prince Afonso Henriques ( of the House of Burgundy ) defeat the Almoravid Moors led by Ali ibn Yusuf.

As the legend of the Battle describes, the battle lasted two days ( between 24 – 25 July 1139 ) and was so excessively bloody that the waters of Ribeira de Cobres flowed the color of red.

* Portuguese House of Burgundy ( 1093 – 1139 )

* Portuguese House of Burgundy or Afonsine Dynasty ( 1139 – 1383 )

In Portugal, Afonso I of Portugal ( then Afonso Henriques, Count of Portugal ) declared himself King in 1139, continuing the Reconquista, thus founding both the Portuguese monarchy and the modern country of Portugal.

The Portuguese independence was obtained by his son, Afonso I of Portugal when, after defeating the Muslims at the Battle of Ourique, proclaimed himself King of Portugal in 1139, cutting definitively all feudal bonds with the Kingdom of León.

This town is traditionally considered the site of the famous Battle of Ourique in 1139, which saw the forces of Portuguese Prince Afonso Henriques defeat the Moors.

* 1139 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques.

William's father, John Marshal, supported King Stephen when he took the throne in 1135, but in about 1139 he changed sides to back the Empress Matilda in the civil war of succession between her and Stephen which led to the collapse of England into " the Anarchy ".

In 1139, Bari, where during the wars of the past year 50, 000 inhabitants had remained unscathed behind the massive walls, decided to surrender: the excellentissimus princeps Jaquintus, who had led the rebellion of the city, was hanged together with many of his followers, but the city avoided a sack.

The family's support for Stephen led to him being awarded the revenues of the Borough of Derby in 1139, though in 1149 Stephen then granted the Borough to the Earl of Chester

In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.

A brief intervention in 1137 – 1138 by the Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus, who wished to assert imperial suzerainty over all the crusader states, did nothing to stop the threat of Zengi ; in 1139 Damascus and Jerusalem recognized the severity of the threat to both states, and an alliance was concluded which halted Zengi's advance.

During their dig they found the remains of a Benedictine chapel that was built in c. 1139 by monks from Glastonbury Abbey, a reliquary, graves and the remains of much earlier Romano-British chapels built of wood with dating evidence suggesting use by Christians before the reign of Constantine the Great.

This rule was changed by the Second Lateran council of 1139.

In June 1139, Stephen held his court in Oxford, where a fight between Alan of Brittany and Roger's men broke out, an incident probably deliberately created by Stephen.

Count Frederick III ( c. 1139 – c. 1200 ) accompanied Emperor Frederick I Barbrarossa against Henry the Lion in 1180 and through his marriage achieved the enfeoffment with the Burgraviate of Nuremberg by Emperor Henry VI of Hohenstaufen in 1191.

The tribute to the pope of 600 schifati agreed upon by Roger II in 1139 at Mignano was affirmed and another 400 schifati was added for the new lands.

His eldest son, Leopold IV, became margrave in 1136, and in 1139 received from the German king Conrad III the duchy of Bavaria, which had been forfeited by Henry the Proud.

After Henry's death ( October 1139 ), the war was continued by his son Henry the Lion, supported by the Saxons, and by his brother Welf VI.

This decree was issued in a Lateran Council of 1097 ( requested by Pope Urban II ), then renewed in the Lateran Council II ( 1139 )

In 1139 Matilda landed in England with 140 knights, where she was besieged at Arundel Castle by King Stephen.

A prominent example of these were the Flemings that fought during the English civil wars, known as the Anarchy or the Nineteen-Year Winter ( AD 1135 to 1154 ), under the command of William of Ypres, who was King Stephen's chief lieutenant from 1139 to 1154 and who was made Earl of Kent by Stephen.

However, this alliance proved unable to resist Roger, who extracted by force a recognition of his royal title from the Pope in 1139 ( Treaty of Mignano ).

In the Spring of 1139, the emperor campaigned with success against Turks, probably nomadic Turkomans, who were raiding the regions along the Sangarios River ; hitting their means of subsistence by driving off their herds.

Ranulf himself, who had taken refuge in Troia, his capital, was killed by a malaric fever on 30 April 1139.

He also cites the influence of the Banu Musa brothers for his fountains, al-Asturlabi for the design of a candle clock, and Hibat Allah ibn al-Husayn ( d. 1139 ) for musical automata.

After this battle, the future king calls himself " Prince of Portugal ", the first step towards " official independence " that will be reached in 1139 after the Battle of Ourique.

Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby, 2nd Earl of Ferrières ( 1062 – 1139 ) was created Earl of Derby by King Stephen in 1138 for his valiant conduct at the Battle of Northallerton.

Monument to the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), erected during the Second Republic

He fought alongside Afonso Henriques against the Moors, and received a knighthood by him in 1139, after the Battle of Ourique.