Shawar was promptly assassinated, and when Shirkuh died in 1169, he was succeeded by his nephew Yusuf, better known as Saladin.

In 1169, Shawar was reportedly assassinated by Saladin, and Shirkuh died later that year.

Towards the end of 1169, Saladin — with reinforcements from Nur ad-Din — defeated a massive Crusader-Byzantine force near Damietta.

Saladin had been appointed vizier of Egypt in 1169 and soon came to rule the country as sultan.

Ultimately, Nur ed-Din's Kurdish general Shirkuh was successful in conquering Egypt in 1169, but Shirkuh's nephew and successor as Governor of Egypt, Saladin, eventually rejected Nur ad-Din's control.

In 1169, a fleet from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with support from the Byzantine Empire, attacked the port, but it was defeated by Saladin.

* Gibb, Sir Hamilton A. R .: The Rise of Saladin, 1169 – 1189 ( in: Setton, Kenneth M. ( General Editor ) – Baldwin, Marshall W. ( Editor ): A History of the Crusades – Volume I: The First Hundred Years ; The University of Wisconsin Press, 1969, Madison, Milwaukee, and London ; ISBN 978-0-299-04834-1 )

Asad ad-Din Shirkuh bin Shadhi (, Shêr-kuh literally means lion of the mountains in Kurdish ), also known as Shêrko or " Shêrgo " ( died 1169 ) was an important Kurdish military commander, and uncle of Saladin.

The Syrian general Shirkuh was placed in power, but died due to ill health just a few months later, after which his nephew Saladin became vizier of Egypt on March 2, 1169, launching the Ayyubid dynasty.

He first achieved distinction as an officer in Nur ad-Din Zengi's army during his uncle Shirkuh's third and final campaign in Egypt ( 1168 – 1169 ); following Nur ad-Din's death in 1174, Al-Adil governed Egypt on behalf of his brother Saladin and mobilized that country's vast resources in support of his brother's campaigns in Syria and his war against the Crusaders ( 1175 – 1183 ).

Alexios II Komnenos or Alexius II Comnenus () ( 10 September 1169 – 24 September 1183, Constantinople ), Byzantine emperor ( 1180 – 1183 ), was the son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and Maria, daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch.

In 1169 the now old Dom Afonso was disabled in an engagement near Badajoz by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner by the soldiers of the king of León, his son-in-law.

* Eirene Komnene ( born c. 1169 ), who was briefly married to Alexios Komnenos, a son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos by Theodora Batatzina.

Irish, it remained largely under Viking control until the Norman invasion of Ireland was launched from Wales in 1169.

One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

A peace treaty was secured in January 1169 and Richard's betrothal to Alys was confirmed.

Rhys benefited from the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169 and 1170, which was largely led by the Cambro-Norman lords of south Wales.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius and Palladius ( or, less frequently, year 1169 Ab urbe condita ).

Consequently, his younger son Frederick V became the new Duke of Swabia in 1167, while his eldest son Henry was crowned King of the Romans in 1169, alongside his father who also retained the title.

With an increasing anti-German sentiment sweeping through Lombardy, which culminated in the restoration of Milan in 1169, in 1174, Frederick made his fifth expedition to Italy but was opposed by the pro-papal Lombard League ( now joined by Venice, Sicily and Constantinople ) which had previously formed to stand against him.

Year 1169 ( MCLXIX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Afonso succeeded in conquering part of Galicia, but in attempting to capture the frontier fortress of Badajoz he was wounded and forced to surrender to Ferdinand II of León ( 1169 ).

William was especially disappointed in the failure of the joint campaign against Egypt in 1169.

Subsequently Asti adhered to the Lombard League ( 1169 ) against the German emperor, but was again defeated in 1174.

Cairo was intended as a royal enclosure for the Fatimid caliph and his army, though the actual administrative and economic capital of Egypt was in cities such as Fustat until 1169.

Under sections 1169 and 1170 of the Greater New York Charter, Mallon was held in isolation for three years at a clinic located on North Brother Island.

The population density was 1169. 5 people per square mile ( 451. 6 / km² ).

Dublin Castle was first founded as a major defensive work by Meiler Fitzhenry on the orders of King John of England in 1204, some time after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

He was appointed archdeacon of Jerusalem in 1169.

With the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, a powerful Norman family-the Butlers-became the new overlords.

In 1169 a new controversy, about the use of auricular confession severed the once friendly relations between the two communions.

After the decay of the Fatimid political system in the 1160s, the Zengid ruler Nūr ad-Dīn had his general, Shirkuh, seize Egypt from the vizier Shawar in 1169.

Shawar died in 1169 and Shirkuh became vizier, but he too died later that year.

He served as a secretary for the ruler of Granada, and later as vizier and physician for Abu Yaqub Yusuf, the Almohad king, to whom he recommended Ibn Rushd ( Averroës ) as his own future successor in 1169.

With his uncle Shirkuh he conquered Egypt for the Zengid King Nur ad-Din of Damascus in 1169.

However, with Saladin's rise to power in 1169, Egypt returned to the Sunni fold and the Abbasid Caliphate.

Originally, there was a distinction between Ṭayyibiyyah and the Ḥāfiziyyah, who recognized the Fatimid rulers of Egypt between 1130 – 1169 as legitimate Imāms, not Ṭayyib Abī l-Qāṣim.

After Fustat was destroyed in 1168 / 1169 to prevent its capture by the Crusaders, the administrative capital of Egypt moved to Cairo, where it has remained ever since.

By 1169, the efforts of Manuel had evidently borne fruit, as a large and purely Byzantine fleet of about 150 galleys, 20 large transports and 60 horse transports under megas doux Andronikos Kontostephanos was sent to invade Egypt in cooperation with the ruler of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

The Normans did in fact invade Ireland, beginning with a small landing of Norman knights in 1169, followed by Henry's landing with a much larger force in 1171.

In 1169 he visited Rome, possibly to answer accusations made against him by Archbishop Frederick, although if so, the charge is unknown.

Its first recorded use was in 1169 when King Henry II, hard pressed by his barons over the Investiture Controversy, assumed the common theory of " divine right of kings ," that the monarch acted conjointly with the deity.

The development of the several dynastic regional kingdoms into a nascent national kingdom, however, was extinguished by the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169.

Wexford was the site of the invasion of Ireland by Normans in 1169 at the behest of Diarmuid Mac Murrough, King of Uí Cheinnsealaig and king of Leinster ( Laigin ), which led to the subsequent colonisation of the country by the Anglo-Normans.

However, in May 1169 Wexford was besieged by Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster and his Norman ally, Robert Fitz-Stephen.

Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan, progenitor of the Irish FitzGerald dynasty | Geraldines, from a manuscript of the Expugnatio Hibernica, an account of the 1169 invasion of Ireland written by Maurice's nephew, Gerald of Wales in 1189.

In medieval times there was an abbey or priory of nuns in the parish, founded in 1169 by Henry II and attached to Fontevrault Abbey in France.

An early reference of dubious historicity is reported by Johannes Letzner, who cites Conradus Fontanus ( an otherwise unknown authority ) to the effect that one Curt von Meinbrechtshausen, a knight of Saxony, in 1169 after committing a murder lost his rank and arms, described as an eight-pointed star beneath a chevron.

With Henry II distracted by his widening quarrel with Thomas Becket, Owain's army recovered Tegeingle for Gwynedd by 1169.

A drawing of Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan, progenitor of the Irish FitzGerald dynasty | Geraldines, from a manuscript of the < i > Expugnatio Hibernica </ i >, an account of the 1169 Norman invasion of Ireland | invasion of Ireland written by Maurice's nephew, Gerald of Wales in 1189.

In 1169 a contingent of Norman knights led by Dermot MacMurrough invaded Ireland, first conquering the Irish providence of Leinster then all of Ireland.