He wrote, apparently about the year 1143, a chronicle entitled Annales sive Historia de gestis regum Britanniae, which begins with Brutus and carries the history of England down to 1129.

In 1143, he wrote to Pope Innocent II to declare himself and the kingdom servants of the Church, swearing to pursue driving the Moors out of the Iberian Peninsula.

Pope Celestine II ( died 8 March 1144 ), born Guido di Castello, was pope from 1143 to 1144.

Pope Innocent II ( died 24 September 1143 ), born Gregorio Papareschi, was pope from 1130 to 1143, and was probably one of the clergy in personal attendance on the antipope Clement III ( Guibert of Ravenna ).

Innocent II died on 24 September 1143 and was succeeded by Pope Celestine II.

In 1143, as the Pope lay dying, the Commune of Rome, to resist papal power, began deliberations that officially reinstated the Roman Senate the following year.

Twelve years of campaigning on the Galician frontier were concluded in 1143 by the Treaty of Zamora, in which Afonso was recognized as independent of any other Iberian sovereign, although he promised to be a faithful vassal of the Pope and to pay him a yearly tribute of four ounces of gold.

But in September 1143, Henry's legatine powers lapsed when Pope Innocent II, who had made the legatine appointment, died.

The first recorded papal coronation was that of Pope Celestine II in 1143.

The popes of the destroyed tombs were: Pope John X ( 914-928 ), Pope Agapetus II ( 946-955 ), Pope John XII ( 955-964 ), Pope Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 ), Pope Callixtus II ( 1119 – 1124 ), Pope Honorius II ( 1124 – 1130 ), Pope Celestine II ( 1143 – 1144 ), Pope Lucius II ( 1144 – 1145 ), Pope Anastasius IV ( 1153 – 1154 ), Pope Clement III ( 1187 – 1191 ), Pope Celestine III ( 1191 – 1198 ), Pope Innocent V ( 1276 ).

Meanwhile, Portugal became an autonomous dominion of the Kingdom of León in 1128, emerging as a fully independent kingdom, officially recognized by the Pope in 1143.

Pope Innocent II promised to lift the excommunication, but recanted his promise in 1143.

In 1143, Pope Innocent II ruled that FitzHerbert could be confirmed in office if he swore under oath that the allegations were false.

He participated in the papal election of 1143, the first undisturbed papal election that Rome had seen for eighty-two years, and was elected pope two days after the death of Innocent II, on 25 September 1143, taking the name of Celestine.

In 1143, Innocent refused to recognise the Treaty of Mignano with Roger of Sicily, who sent Robert of Selby to march on papal Benevento.

# Pope Innocent II ( 1130 – 1143 )

Emperor John II Komnenos | John II ( 1118 – 1143 ) is shown on the left, with the Mary, Mother of Jesus | Virgin Mary and infant Jesus in the centre, and John's consort Piroska of Hungary | Empress Irene on the right.

** Hugh II ( 1103 – 1143 )

** Odo II ( 1143 – 1162 )

The modern town was founded by Adolf II, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, in 1143 as a German settlement on the river island Bucu.

* 1087 – John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor ( d. 1143 )

Stephen's preferred option was to have Eustace crowned while he himself was still alive, as was the custom in France, but this was not the normal practice in England, and Celestine II, during his brief tenure as pope between 1143 and 1144, had banned any change to this practice.

* September 13 – John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor ( d. 1143 )

John II Komnenos ( or Latinised as Comnenus ) (, Iōannēs II Komnēnos ) ( September 13, 1087 – April 8, 1143 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 1118 to 1143.

The Byzantine empire under John II Komnenos, c. 1143.

Stephen's preferred option was to have Eustace crowned while he himself was still alive, as was the custom in France, but this was not the normal practice in England, and Celestine II, during his brief tenure as pope between 1143 and 1144, had banned any change to this practice.

Celestine II was elected on 26 September 1143, but he was an opponent of Stephen, and thus was not favourably inclined towards Stephen's brother Henry either.

Having distinguished himself in his father's war against the Seljuk Turks, in 1143 Manuel was chosen as his successor by John, in preference to his elder surviving brother Isaac.

In 1143, he himself recognised this status quo and consented to the marriage of Petronila of Aragon with Ramon Berenguer IV, a union which combined Aragon and Catalonia into the Crown of Aragon.

Having prepared his army for a renewed attack on Antioch John amused himself by hunting wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia, where, on April 8 1143, he accidentally cut himself on the hand with a poisoned arrow.

Wumen himself struggled for six years with koan " Zhaozhou ’ s dog ", assigned to him by Yuelin Shiguan ( 月林師觀 ; Japanese: Gatsurin Shikan ) ( 1143 – 1217 ), before attaining kenshō.

Having returned to Italy after 1143, Arnold made his peace in 1145 with Pope Eugene III, who ordered him to submit himself to the mercy of the Church in Rome ( CE ).

Finally, in 1143, the Treaty of Zamora established peace between the cousins and the recognition by the Kingdom of León that Portugal was a sovereign kingdom.

Finally, in 1143, the Treaty of Zamora established peace between the cousins and the recognition by the Kingdom of León that Portugal was an independent kingdom.

He was 13 years old when Fulk died in a hunting accident in 1143, and the kingdom legally passed to his mother, who had ruled with Fulk as a consort.

He arrived in Jerusalem around 1140 and was appointed constable of Jerusalem, the highest office of the kingdom, by his cousin Queen Melisende, after the death of Melisende's husband King Fulk in 1143.

Although he received support from the Church — he became Archdeacon of Pamplona in 1143 — Robert's preference was for translating scientific rather than theological works.

The author of this falsification was Oliveira Marques, and even in 1632 there were misgivings about the validity of the chronicler's account or the existence of the Cortes of Lamego The account continued to support the notion that in the 12th century a meeting of the Cortes occurred in the Church of Santa Maria de Almacave, in Lamego, in 1143.

Pope Celestine III, in 1143, confirms the Church and Canons of the Holy Sepulchre in all their possessions, and enumerates several churches both in the Holy Land and in Italy belonging to the Canons.

In around 1143 the title Earl of Arundel ( also known as the Earl of Sussex until that title fell out of use ) was created and became the dominant local landowner.

In 1143, after protracted negotiations between Raymond Berenguer IV ( the Count of Barcelona and a Templar ) the order's mission on the Iberian peninsula was defined.