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

It was held by Pope Innocent II in April 1139, and was attended by close to a thousand clerics.

Theobald ( sometimes Tedbald ; c. 1090 – 18 April 1161 ) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1139 to 1161.

* Adeliza of Louvain 1 December 1135 — 23 April 1151, wife of Henry I of England ; remarried to William d ' Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel in 1139.

* Eufemia of Kiev ( d. 4 April 1139 ).

* Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Arnold of Brescia in Exile: April 1139 to December 1143 – His Role as a Reformer, Reviewed, in: Exile in the Middle Ages.

Victor IV ( died after April 1139 ), antipope for a short time in 1138.

Apostoli, but in the Second Lateran Council in April 1139 all the former adherents of Anacletus II were condemned and deposed.

In 1139, Bernard assisted at the Second Council of the Lateran.

Because clerics resisted it, the celibacy mandate was restated at the Second Lateran Council ( 1139 ) and the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 64 ).

29 of the Second Lateran Council under Pope Innocent II in 1139 banned the use of crossbows against Christians.

Celibacy among the clergy is a relavtively recent practice: it became Church policy at the Second Lateran Council in 1139.

Second Council of the Lateran ( 1139 ) reaffirmed Lateran I and addressed clerical discipline ( dress, marriages ).

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

By the Second Lateran council of 1139, at which King Roger II of Sicily, Innocent II's most uncompromising foe, was excommunicated, peace was at last restored to the Church.

The Second Lateran Council in 1139 prohibited the use of crossbows against other Christians, although it did not prevent its use against non-Christians.

Sixteen years later, the Second Lateran Council ( 1139 ), in which some five hundred bishops took part, enacted the following canons:

The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: " The Second Lateran Council ( 1139 ) seems to have enacted the first written law making sacred orders a diriment impediment to marriage for the universal Church.

Innocent II quickly convened the Second Lateran Council in 1139 and reinforced the Church's teachings against usury, clerical marriage, and other problems.

The name of Portugal itself reveals much of the country's early history, stemming from the Roman name Portus Cale, a Latin name meaning " Port of Cale " ( some argue that Cale is a word of Celtic origin, which also means port or harbour ), later transformed into Portucale, and finally into Portugal, who emerged as a county of the Kingdom of León ( see First County of Portugal and Second County of Portugal ) and became an independent kingdom in 1139.

The Second Council of the Lateran in 1139 removed the requirement that the assent of the lower clergy and the laity be obtained, while the Third Council of the Lateran in 1179 gave equal rights to the entire College of Cardinals when electing a new pope.

The teachings of Peter of Bruys continued to be frequently condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, meriting mention at the Second Lateran Council in 1139.

The Cistercians opposed on the grounds that the Second Lateran Council in 1139 had given the religious houses of a diocese the right to participate in the election of the bishop.

He was condemned at the Second Lateran Council in 1139 and forced from Italy.

* 1139: Second Ecumenical Lateran Council.

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

# The Second Council of the Lateran ( 1139 ) declared clerical marriages invalid, regulated clerical dress, and punished attacks on clerics by excommunication.

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

Another major benefit came in 1139, when Pope Innocent II's papal bull Omne Datum Optimum exempted the Order from obedience to local laws.

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.

Saint Otto of Bamberg (, ; 1060 or 1061 – 30 June 1139 ) was a medieval German bishop and missionary who, as papal legate, converted much of Pomerania to Christianity.

Henry was appointed a papal legate on 1 March 1139, which meant that Henry could now call church councils in England and had power equal to or exceeding that of Theobald.

Omne Datum Optimum ( Latin for " Every perfect gift ", a quotation from the Epistle of James ) was a Papal Bull issued by Pope Innocent II in 1139 that initially endorsed the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon ( Knights Templar ), in which the Templar Rule was officially approved, and papal protection given.

Evidence suggests that in the 1130s the order was becoming militarised: in 1136 Fulk, King of Jerusalem, granted the newly built castle at Bethgibelin to the order and a papal bull from between 1139 and 1143 may indicate the order was hiring people to defend pilgrims.

This is one of the most important papal bulls relating to the Temple, and together with Omne Datum Optimum ( 1139 ) and Militia Dei ( 1145 ) forms the foundation for the Order's future wealth and success.

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.

He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.

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.

* 1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.

Otto's son, Albert the Bear, became, with the help of his mother's inheritance, the first Ascanian duke of Saxony in 1139.

In the autumn of 1139, she invaded England with her illegitimate half-brother Robert of Gloucester.

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

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.

* 1139 – Emperor Konoe of Japan ( d. 1155 )

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.

* Magnus IV of Norway ( c. 1115 – 1139 )

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

In 1139, Ayyub and his family moved to Mosul where Imad ad-Din Zengi acknowledged his debt and appointed Ayyub commander of his fortress in Baalbek.

When the Empress and Robert invaded in 1139, however, Stephen was unable to rapidly crush the revolt, which took hold in the south-west of England.

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.

The Angevin invasion finally arrived in 1139.