Ibn al-Athir ( 1166 – 1234 ) describes Alfonso as a tireless soldier who would sleep in his armor without benefit of cover, who responded when asked why he did not take his pleasure from one of the captives of Muslim chiefs, responded that the man devoted to war needs the companionship of men not women.

* 1166 – King John of England ( d. 1216 )

* Muhammad al-Idrisi 1100 – 1166, ( Arabia & Sicily )

John ( 24 December 1166 – 18 / 19 October 1216 ), also known as John Lackland ( Norman French: Johan sanz Terre ), was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death.

The Vasojevići clan claim descent from Stephen Constantine of the Nemanjić dynasty ( that ruled Medieval Serbia, 1166 – 1371 ).

During this time, he composed his acclaimed commentary on the Mishnah in the years 1166 – 1168.

* October 18 – John of England ( b. 1166 )

* July 6 – Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy ( b. 1166 )

* September 10 – Henry II of Champagne ( b. 1166 )

Saint Rosalia ( 1130 – 1166 ), also called La Santuzza or " The Little Saint ", is the patron saint of Palermo, Italy, El Hatillo, Venezuela, and Zuata, Anzoátegui, Venezuela.

* Keats-Rohan, Katherine S. B. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066 – 1166.

Already in medieval times the Chancellor had political power like Willigis of Mainz ( Archchancellor 975 – 1011, regent for Otto III 991 – 994 ) or Rainald von Dassel ( Chancellor 1156 – 1162 and 1166 – 1167 ) under Frederick I.

# Henry ( b. 1131 – d. 18 October 1166 ).

** Alicia, ( 1166 – 1178 ), betrothed to John of England

* John of England ( 1166 – 1216 ), King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and Count of Anjou

* William ( b. 1131 – d. 7 May 1166 ), his successor, Duke of Apulia ( from 1148 );

The English royal castles also became used as gaols – the Assize of Clarendon in 1166 insisted that royal sheriffs establish their own gaols and, in the coming years, county gaols were placed in all the shrieval royal castles.

17 ( 5 ), 1150 – 1166 ( 1996 ).

Between 846-1022, and again from 1042 – 1166, kings from the leading Irish kingdoms made greater attempts to compel the rest of the island's polity to their rule, with varying degrees of success, until the inauguration of Ruaidri Ua Conchobair ( Rory O ' Connor ) in 1166,

William I ( 1131 – May 7, 1166 ), called the Bad or the Wicked, was the second king of Sicily, ruling from his father's death in 1154 to his own.

William II ( 1155 – 11 November 1189 ), called the Good, was king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189.

Peter went with Stephen du Perche and Walter of the Mill to Sicily in 1166 and there became the tutor to King William II in 1167.

The first three volumes take the form of a dialogue between Archbishop John of Gniezno ( 1149 – after 1167 ) and Matthew, Bishop of Kraków ( 1143 – 1166 ).

He was also Count of Provence from 1166 or shortly before, which he acquired from Countess Douce II, until 1173, when he ceded it to his brother Berenguer.

Apparently, she was betrothed to Raymond V, Count of Toulouse, by her cousin the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa around 1166 ; at the same time, the now Countess Douce II of Provence was engaged to the future Raymond VI.

The first instance of a grand jury can be traced back to the Assize of Clarendon, an 1166 act of Henry II of England.

John was born to Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine on 24 December 1166.

* Roswell Moore II House — 1166 Andrews St.

The Norman invasion of Ireland began between 1166 and 1171, under first Richard de Clare and then Henry II of England, with the occupation of southern and eastern Ireland by a number of Anglo-Norman barons.

William died on May 7, 1166 and was interred in Palermo Cathedral, although he was later moved to Monreale Cathedral by his son and heir William II of Sicily when that building was completed.

* Henry II of Champagne ( 1166 – 1197 )

In 1166, however, Henry II promulgated the Constitutions of Clarendon which established a new system of courts that rendered decisions wholly by royal authority.

Thomas Becket in exile, chose Vézelay for his Whitsunday sermon in 1166, announcing the excommunication of the main supporters of his English King, Henry II, and threatening the King with excommunication too.

The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of Henry II of England that began the transformation of English law from such systems for deciding the prevailing party in a case as trial by ordeal or trial by battle to an evidentiary model, in which evidence and inspection was made by laymen.

Henry II also instituted the Assize of Clarendon in 1166, which allowed for jury trials and reduced the number of trials by combat.

When Henry II reformed English civil procedure in the Assize of Clarendon in 1166, trial by jury became available, and lawyers, guarding the safety of the lives and limbs of their clients, steered people away from the wager of battle.

In the Assize of Clarendon, enacted in 1166 and the first great legislative act in the reign of the English Angevin King Henry II, the law of the land required that: " anyone, who shall be found, on the oath of the aforesaid jury, to be accused or notoriously suspect of having been a robber or murderer or thief, or a receiver of them ... be taken and put to the ordeal of water.

On the death of his elder brother Geoffrey in 1166, he became Earl of Essex and returned to England, where he spent much time at the court of Henry II.

Margaret of Navarre (,, ) ( c. 1128 – 12 August 1183 ) was the queen consort of the Kingdom of Sicily during the reign of William I ( 1154 – 1166 ) and the regent during the minority of her son, William II.

Motte-and-bailey castles were introduced to Ireland following the Norman invasion of Ireland that began between 1166 and 1171 under first Richard de Clare and then Henry II of England, with the occupation of southern and eastern Ireland by a number of Anglo-Norman barons.

Henry II of Champagne ( or Henry I of Jerusalem ) ( 29 July 1166 – 10 September 1197 ) was count of Champagne from 1181 to 1197, and King of Jerusalem from 1192 to 1197, although he never used the title of king.

* Henry II ( 1166 – 1197 )

Note that south is at the top of the map. Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi (; ) ( 1099 – 1165 or 1166 ) was a Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II.

Enrolment of the charters of 1166 and 1189 granting and confirming Birmingham's right to hold a marketThe transformation of Birmingham from the purely rural manor recorded in the Domesday Book started decisively in 1166, with the purchase by the Lord of the Manor Peter de Birmingham of a royal charter from Henry II permitting him to hold a weekly market " at his castle at Birmingham " and to charge tolls on the market's traffic.

Owain expanded his international diplomatic offensive against Henry II by sending an embassy to Louis VII of France in 1168, led by Arthur of Bardsey, Bishop of Bangor ( 1166 – 1177 ), who was charged with negotiating a joint alliance against Henry II.