* 1176: On September 17, The Battle of Myriokephalon ( Myriocephalum ; Turkish: Miryakefalon Savaşı ) is fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks in Phrygia.

On 11 September 1176, the armies of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Seljuk Sultanate met at Myriokephalon ( thousand heads ), whose exact location is not know ; but it is widely accepted that it is somewhere near Yalvaç.

On April 18, 1176 Galdino della Sala died in his pulpit, having just completed a sermon against the Cathars, who were seen by orthodox Catholics as ‘ heretics ’.< ref >

Frederick suffered a heavy defeat at the Battle of Legnano near Milan, on 29 May 1176, where he was wounded and for some time was believed to be dead.

Its troops were part of the army that, on May 29, 1176, defeated Barbarossa in the Battle of Legnano.

At the Battle of Legnano on 29 May 1176, Frederick I was defeated and, by the Peace of Venice, which took place in 1177, agreed to a six-year truce from August, 1178 to 1183, until the Peace of Constance, where the Italian cities agreed to remain loyal to the Empire but retained local jurisdiction over their territories.

Matthias I ( 1119 – May 13, 1176 ) was the duke of Lorraine from 1138 to his death as the eldest son and successor of Simon I and Adelaide.

The Battle of Legnano was fought on May 29, 1176, between the forces of the Holy Roman Empire, led by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and the Lombard League.

Monument to Alberto da Giussano in Legnano, Milan province, commemorating the Battle of May 29, 1176

* 1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.

However, the dispute between Alexander III, Antipope Victor IV and his successors Antipope Paschal III and Antipope Calixtus III ( who had the German imperial support ) continued until Frederick Barbarossa's defeat at the Legnano in 1176, after which Barbarossa finally ( in the Peace of Venice of 1177 ) recognized Alexander III as pope.

In the Peace of Anagni in 1176, Frederick recognized Alexander III as Pope and in the Peace of Venice, 1177, Frederick and Alexander III were formally reconciled.

In 1160, Alexander III excommunicated the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in the Cathedral ; in 1176, after the Battle of Legnano, the same pope received the imperial legates, with whom he elaborated the Pactum Anagninum (" Anagni's Agreement "), premise to the peace, which was achieved in Venice in 1177.

In 1177, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III signed the Treaty of Venice here following Frederick's defeat at the Battle of Legnano in 1176.

In this role it took part in the war against the emperor Frederick Barbarossa and in the subsequent battle of Legnano ( 1176 ).

In 1176, Baldwin and Raymond arranged for Sibylla to marry William Longsword of Montferrat, eldest son of the Marquess William V of Montferrat, and a cousin of Louis VII of France and of Frederick Barbarossa.

The Lombard League defeated Frederick at the Battle of Legnano in 1176.

Dispossessed of his duchies after the Battle of Legnano in 1176 by Emperor Frederick I and the other princes of the German Empire eager to claim parts of his vast territories, he was exiled to the court of his father-in-law Henry II in Normandy in 1180, but returned to Germany three years later.

Frederick did not forgive Henry the Lion for refusing to come to his aid in 1176.

In the Middle Ages, Legnano was the location of the battle in which Emperor Frederick I was defeated by the Lombard League ( 1176 ).

A part of the powerful Contado of the Seprio, in 1176 its citizens are likely to have taken part ( on both sides ) to the famous Battle of Legnano, actually fought between Busto's frazione of Borsano and nearby Villa Cortese, when Frederick Barbarossa was defeated by the Communal militia of the Lombard League.

After the city fell, the invaders retreated, and were replaced by the Almoravides from North Africa, who ruled till 1176.

Deriving from earlier varieties of gnosticism, Cathar theology found its most surprising success in the Languedoc and the Cathars were known as Albigensians, either because of an association with the city of Albi, or because the 1176 Church Council which declared the Cathar doctrine heretical was held near Albi.

However, when Turan-Shah was transferred from his governor post in Yemen in 1176, uprisings broke out in the territory and were not quelled until 1182 when Saladin assigned his other brother Tughtekin Sayf al-Islam as governor of Yemen.

Then, in 1963 three municipal districts in the area that were growing in size were merged and promoted to the category of si, meaning city, by order of Law No 1176.

In fact infantry had been victorious in earlier times in similar situations, for instance at the battle of Legnano in 1176, but in open ground infantry still had the worst, as shown for instance at the battle of Patay and the battle of Formigny in which the vaunted English longbowmen were easily run down ; however, the experience of battles like Courtrai and Bannockburn meant that the myth of the invincible knight disappeared, which was in itself important for transforming medieval warfare.

That cathedral burned to the ground in 1176 because at that time the naves were covered with a wooden framework.

In 1176, its Christian inhabitants raised the standard of revolt against the Muslims, but were suppressed promptly by Al-Adil, brother of Saladin, who hanged nearly 3, 000 Copts on the trees around the city.

The Birkebeiner were formed in 1174 around Øystein Møyla, who was proclaimed to be king at the Øretinget Thing by the mouth of the river Nidelva in Trondheim during 1176.

In Italy the breakaway from their feudal overlords occurred in the late 12th century and 13th century, during the Investiture Controversy between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor: Milan led the Lombard cities against the Holy Roman Emperors and defeated them, gaining independence ( battles of Legnano, 1176, and Parma, 1248 ; see Lombard League ).

At the Battle of Myriokephalon in 1176, Kilij Arslan also defeated a Byzantine army led by Manuel I Comnenus, dealing a major blow to Byzantine power in the region.

The breakaway from their feudal overlords by these communes occurred in the late 12th century and 13th century, during the Investiture Controversy between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor: Milan led the Lombard cities against the Holy Roman Emperors and defeated them, gaining independence ( battles of Legnano, 1176, and Parma, 1248-see Lombard League ).

His bastard son Eystein Meyla was proclaimed king by the Birkebeiner party in 1176, but was defeated and killed the year after.

Pisidia constantly changed hands between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Turks until 1176, when the Great Sultan Kılıçarslan defeated Manuel Commenos in the Myriokephalon ( thousand heads ), which ended Roman rule and cemented Turkish rule of the area.

# Bourgogne of Lusignan ( 1176 – 1180 or c. 1178 – c. 1210 ), married as his third wife Raymond VI of Toulouse 1193, repudiated and divorced 1194 or 1196 without issue, married Gauthier I de Montfaucon aka Walter of Montbéliard ( killed in action at the Battle of Satalia, June 20, 1212 ) 1197 or bef.

Jerusalem looked again towards the Byzantine Empire for help, and Emperor Manuel was looking for a way to restore his empire's prestige after his defeat at the Battle of Myriokephalon in 1176 ; this mission was undertaken by Raynald of Châtillon.

The Battle of Hama did not end the contest for power between the Ayyubids and the Zengids, with the final confrontation occurring in the spring of 1176.

* 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.

The Battle of Myriokephalon, also known as the, or in Turkish, was a battle between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks in Phrygia on September 17, 1176.

Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus fortified Dorylaeum in 1175, but according to some authorities the Turks recaptured it in 1176 after the Battle of Myriokephalon.

* Paolo Grillo, " Legnano 1176.

pl: Bitwa pod Legnano ( 1176 )