Fujiwara no Yorinaga sided with the retired emperor in a violent battle in 1158 against the heir apparent, who was supported by the Taira and Minamoto.

Go-Shirakawa became the new cloistered emperor in 1158, and he would continue to exercise power throughout the reigns of five emperors: Emperor Nijō, Emperor Rokujō, Emperor Takakura, Emperor Antoku, and Emperor Go-Toba.

In 1158 he abdicated to his son Nijō and became cloistered emperor, through the reigns of five emperors ( Emperor Nijō, Emperor Rokujō, Emperor Takakura, Emperor Antoku, and Emperor Go-Toba ) until his death in 1192.

Between 1158 and 1161 a series of Byzantine campaigns against the Seljuk Turks of the Sultanate of Rûm resulted in a treaty favourable to the Empire, with the sultan recognising a form of subordination to the Byzantine emperor.

He accompanied the emperor on two expeditions to Italy in 1158 and 1176 – 1178.

In 1158 Rainald undertook a diplomatic journey into Italy to prepare the way for the emperor.

Basing his action on the Roncalian decrees issued at the Diet of Roncaglia, near Piacenza, in 1158, Rainald was once more successfully employed in Italy in the affairs of the emperor.

A poem of some 15-syllable verses, written in 1158 / 1159 during his imprisonment on a charge of slandering a neighbor and containing an appeal to the emperor Manuel I, is extant, and is commonly regarded as the first dated work of Modern Greek literature, since it contains several vernacular proverbs.

* Hōgen 4, on the 11th day of the 8th month ( 1158 ): In the third year of Go-Sirakawa-tennōs reign ( 後白河天皇25年 ), the emperor abdicated ; and the succession (‘‘ senso ’’) was received by his eldest son.

At the diet of Roncaglia in 1158, Bulgarus took the leading part amongst the Four Doctors, and was one of the most trusted advisers of the emperor Frederick I.

Emperor Frederick I in Authentica Habita ( 1158 ) gave the first privileges to students in Bologna.

Podestàs were first more widely appointed by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa when he began to assert the rights that his Imperial position gave him over the cities of northern Italy ; at the second imperial diet at Roncaglia, November 1158, Frederick appointed in several major cities an imperial podestàs " as if having imperial power in that place " The elected consuls, which Frederick had claimed the right to ratify, he began to designate directly.

He enjoyed the favour of Conrad's successor, Frederick I ; was probably instrumental in settling the dispute over the duchy of Bavaria in 1156 ; was present at the famous diet of Besançon in 1157, and, still retaining the habit of a Cistercian monk, died at Morimond on 22 September 1158.

In the Middle Ages, the place was known as Mammingin ; in 1158 the Welfian Duke Welf VI founded the town of Memmingen.

By 1158, Geoffrey VI, Count of Anjou died and Conan seized Nantes, reuniting the Duchy once again.

* Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler ( approximate date ; d. 1158 )

In the winter of 1158 – 59, he marched to Cilicia at the head of a huge army ; the speed of his advance ( Manuel had hurried on ahead of the main army with 500 cavalry ) was such that he managed to surprise the Armenian Thoros of Cilicia, who had participated in the attack on Cyprus.

* Margaret ( 1158 – August / September 1197 ), married ( 1 ) Henry the Young King ; ( 2 ) King Béla III of Hungary

* Yesod Mora Vesod Hatorah ( 1158 ), on the division of and reasons for the Biblical commandments ; 1st ed.

Raynald, too, immediately found himself in conflict with the Byzantines, this time in Cyprus ; he made peace with Manuel I Comnenus, however, in 1158, and the next year Manuel arrived to take personal control of the Principality.

Chinul or Jinul ( 知訥 ; 1158 – 1210 ) was a Korean monk of the Goryeo period, who is considered to be the most influential figure in the formation of Korean Seon Buddhism.

The most important figure of Seon in the Goryeo was Jinul ( 知訥 ; 1158 – 1210 ).

In the meantime, Thoros quickly established a friendly rapport with Kilij Arslan II, the new Seljuk sultan of Iconium ; and in 1158 a peace treaty was concluded.

In the summer of 1158, Manuel I Comnenus launched his second assault on Thoros ; at the head of an army, he marched down the usual routes leading to Seleucia.

They were: Geoffrey Plantagenet ( 1158 – 1186 ), son of Henry II of England ; Ranulph de Blondeville, Earl of Chester ( c. 1172 – 1232 ), the marriage with whom Constance treated as null on the ground of consanguinity ; and Guy de Thouars ( d. 1213 ), who survived his wife for twelve years.

The city's Church of Ireland diocese is Derry and Raphoe ; like the Roman Catholic Diocese of Derry, it traces its origin to 1158.

* Odo of Vitry ( 1124 – 1158 ; married Matilda of Rethel )

* in 1158, Federico Barbarossa fought against the Milan people in Cassano ;

In 1158 a feud with Henry's son, Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, was interrupted by a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Adolf had to cede the castle to Henry the Lion in 1158.

He was forced to submit to King Henry II of England in 1158.

In 1158 King Henry stripped Rhys of all his territories apart from Cantref Mawr.

The purity of 92. 5 % silver ( i. e., sterling silver ) was instituted by Henry II in 1158 with the " Tealby Penny "— a hammered coin.

Disgusted with the pope, and still wishing to crush the Normans in the south of Italy, in June 1158, Frederick set out upon his second Italian expedition, accompanied by Henry the Lion and his Saxon troops.

Geoffrey rebelled against Henry twice before his sudden death in 1158.

* Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ( 1158 – 1186 ), Duke of Brittany, third surviving legitimate son of Henry II

Restoring Anglo-Norman supremacy in Wales proved harder, and Henry had to fight two campaigns in north and south Wales in 1157 and 1158 before the Welsh princes Owain Gwynedd and Rhys ap Gruffydd submitted to his rule, agreeing to the pre-civil war division of lands.

After a second meeting between Malcolm and Henry, at Carlisle in 1158, " they returned without having become good friends, and so that the king of Scots was not yet knighted.

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

The alloy was set to sterling silver of 925 / 1000 in 1158 under King Henry II.

Some sources claim that Henry was canonized in 1158, but this information has been traced to a late publication by Johannes Vastovius in 1623 and is generally regarded as a fabrication.

At Easter of 1158, Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine visited Worcester Cathedral and placed their crowns on the shrine of Wulfstan, vowing not to wear them again.

However, after the "(...) destruction of the episcopal bridge, custom houses, mint, and salt works near Oberföhring by Duke Henry the Lion, who transferred the custom houses and bridge site to the upper part of Oberföhring, placing them in the village of Munich on the Isar " ( Lins, Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 ) in 1158, Freising started to lose its economic significance.

* Henry FitzRoy ( d. 1158 ) ( 1103 – 1158 ), illegitimate son of Henry I of England

In any event, after she reached puberty, she came to the attention of the youngest son of William the Conqueror, Henry I of England, by whom she bore Henry FitzHenry ( c. 1103 – 1158 ), one of his numerous illegitimate children.

Hedon was given its first charter by Henry II in 1158 and was granted improved ones by King John in 1200 and Henry III in 1248 and 1272.