* 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.

Considered by the Curia as an expert on Spain, Giacinto conducted two legatine missions to Spain in ( 1154 – 55 ) and ( 1172 – 75 ) as Cardinal Deacon of St. Maria at Cosmedin.

During the Song Dynasty ( AD 960 – 1279 ) Shanghai was upgraded in status from a village to a market town in 1074, and in 1172 a second sea wall was built to stabilize the ocean coastline, supplementing an earlier dyke.

* Stephen III of Hungary ( 1147 – 1172 ), King of Hungary and Croatia

Silesia in an early period of Piast Poland # Fragmentation and Invasion, ( 1146-1295 ) | Poland's fragmentation, 1172 – 1177

* 1205 — The Battle of Adrianople occurred on April 14, 1205 between Bulgarians under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, ( July 1172 – 1205 ), the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

# Conrad II, Duke of Swabia and Rothenburg ( February / March 1172 – killed, Durlach, 15 August 1196 ).

** Richenza ( 1172 – 1204 ), also called Matilda, married Godfrey, Count of Perche, and Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy

During the old king's last days he had promised the Marshal the hand and estates of Isabel de Clare ( c. 1172 – 1220 ), but had not completed the arrangements.

* Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke ( 1172 – 1220 )

The following reconstruction works were undertaken at the behest of Doge Sebastiano Ziani ( 1172 – 1178 ).

* Baldwin I of Constantinople ( also Baldwin IX of Flanders and Baldwin VI, Count of Hainaut, 1172 – 1205 )

Baldwin I ( July 1172 – ), the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, as Baldwin IX Count of Flanders and as Baldwin VI Count of Hainaut, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Fourth Crusade, which resulted in the capture of Constantinople, the conquest of the greater part of the Byzantine Empire ( then called the " Empire of Romania " by westerners ), and the foundation of the Latin Empire, also known as Romania ( not to be confused with the modern state Romania ).

* Baldwin I of Constantinople ( 1172 – 1205 )

* William III of Ponthieu ( c. 1095 – 1172 )

The first mention of the city of Požega is found in the Gesta Hungarorum, by an anonymous notary of Bela III ( 1172 – 1196 ) where he mentions the conquest of three forts in Slavonia-as the area between rivers Danube and Sutla was then called: Zagreb, Vlco ( Vukovar ) and Posega.

* The Godehardikirche ( St. Godehard's Church ), built 1133 – 1172, a Romanesque basilica minor, which is scheduled to become an UNESCO World Heritage Site in the near future.

# Henry, Prince of Capua ( b. 1158 – d. 1172 ).

The Jurchen Jin Dynasty ( 1115 – 1234 ) bestowed the title " the King Who Makes the Nation Prosperous and Answers with Miracles " ( 興國靈應王, Xingguo Lingying Wang ) on the mountain god in 1172 and it was promoted to " the Emperor Who Cleared the Sky with Tremendous Sagehood " ( 開天宏聖帝, Kaitian Hongsheng Emperor ) in 1193.

* Ludwig III of Thuringia ( ruled 1172 – 1190 ), see Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia

* Stephen III of Hungary ( 1147 – 1172 ), eldest son of King Geza II

** Third son: Imperial Prince Koreaki ( 惟明親王 ) ( 1172 – 1121 ), later Imperial Prince and Monk Shōen ( 聖円入道親王 )

* 1181 – 1232 Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester ( c. 1172 – 1232 )

* King Stephen III of Hungary ( d. 1172 )

When his brother, King Stephen III died childless on 4 March 1172, Béla became his rightful heir.

* Stephen III of Hungary ( died 1172 )

* King Stephen III of Hungary ( 1147 – 4 March 1172 ).

No Bishop or Diocese of Finland is mentioned in a papal letter from 1171 ( or 1172 ) by the seemingly well-informed Pope Alexander III, who otherwise addressed the situation of the church in Finland.

In 1172 Duke Mieszko III rebelled again ; this time supporting his grandnephew Jarosław of Opole ( the eldest son of Bolesław I the Tall ), who, forced to become a priest in his early years, was barred from the Silesian succession.

Béla, Croatian: Bela III., Slovak: Belo III ) ( c. 1148 – 23 April 1196 ) was King of Hungary and Croatia ( 1172 – 1196 ).

Henry II, King of England, after due penance done in Avranches on 21 May 1172, was absolved from the censures incurred by the assassination of the holy prelate, and reached the Compromise of Avranches with the Church, swearing fidelity to Pope Alexander III in the person of the papal legate.

He also ensured that his moral claim to Ireland, granted by the 1154 papal bull Laudabiliter, was reconfirmed in 1172 by Pope Alexander III, and also by a synod of all the Irish bishops at the Synod of Cashel.

Anonymus was schooled at the University of Paris and was employed at the time of writing as a notarias, presumably in the court of Bela III of Hungary ( 1172 – 1196 ).

In 1172, following the subjugation of the Pale in Ireland, Henry III gave Bristolians the right to reside in and trade from Dublin.

It was also used to try to bring the Church of Ireland under the jurisdiction of Canterbury and in the process Pope Alexander III confirmed Pope Adrian IV's donation of Ireland to Henry in 1172.

One view is that the anonymous notary of the Hungarian king Béla III ( 1172 – 1196 ) wrote in the Gesta Ungarorum, based on ancient chronicles and oral tradition, that the Magyars, when they settled on the plains of the Tisza and Danube rivers, found there “ Slavs, Bulgarians and Vlachs, and the shepherds of the Romans ” Although the Gesta Ungarorum is in sharp contrast with the chronicle of Simon of Kéza and of other 14th century chronicles, it is a mistake to treat Gelou as a purely fictional character whose name derived from that of the Transylvanian town Gilău ( Gyalu in Hungarian ) Moreover, it would make no sense for the author of the Gesta to invent entire populations or to lie about the situation.

William III of Ponthieu ( c. 1093 – 1172 ) also called William ( II ; III ) Talvas.

When, however, the Galicians threatened to kill his wife, Vladimir Yaroslavich took her and fled to King Béla III of Hungary ( 1172 – 1196 ).

In 1172, Leopold married Helena, a daughter of King Géza II of Hungary.

# Bolesław ( b. 1156 – d. 1172 )

* William de Mowbray Baron of Axholme ( b. 1172 )

# Conrad II, Duke of Swabia and Rothenburg ( b. February / Marc 1172 – killed, Durlach, 15 August 1196 ).