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

The keep was built on the site of a large ring work fortification that was burnt down in 1172 and rebuilt in 1173, following attacks by the Gaelic King of Connacht, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair Rory O ' Connor.

Nonetheless, he confirmed the position of Henry as Lord of Ireland in 1172.

Henry and Rhys met once more at Laugharne as Henry returned from Ireland in 1172, and shortly afterwards Henry appointed Rhys " justice on his behalf in all Deheubarth ".

From 1172 the Lordship of Ireland gave the King of England the additional title " Dominus Hibernie " ( sic, for Hiberniae ; also " Dominus Hybernie "), Lord of Ireland.

Hugh took part in the Norman Invasion of Ireland and in 1172 was made lord of Meath in Ireland ; he spent much time away from Ludlow, and when he was reconfirmed as Lord of Meath in 1177 Henry II took the castle from him, possibly to ensure that Hugh stay loyal while in Ireland.

Henry II visited it in 1172 on his return from Ireland and made peace with Prince Rhys of Dinefwr.

In 1172, having prepared his fleet and army in the mouth of the Pembroke River, Henry II of England sailed from the haven for the Norman invasion of Ireland.

The title appears to have been given to the de Birmingham family of Birmingham, Warks, England as a reward for their help in the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1172.

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.

's Conquest of Ireland in 1172 ( ed.

Henry the young was crowned King of England in 1170 though he never actually ruled ; Richard the Lionheart became Duke of Aquitaine in 1172 ; Geoffrey became Duke of Brittany in 1181 ; John became Lord of Ireland in 1185 ; while Leonora ( born in 1161 ) was promised to Alfonso VII with Gascony as dowry during the campaign against Toulouse in 1170.

Hugh De Lacy, one of the Normans who came to Ireland after Strongbow, built the original fort circa 1172, having been granted the Kingdom of Meath by Henry II.

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.

A History of Ireland from St Patrick to the English Conquest in 1172 ( London, 1886 )

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

This was followed in 1172 by the invasion of King Henry II of England, commencing English royal involvement.

They were formally married on 27 August 1172 at Winchester Cathedral, when Henry was crowned king of England a second time, this time together with Margaret, by Rotrou, the archbishop of Rouen.

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

The death of her younger nephew Henry of Capua in 1172 made Constance heiress presumptive to the Sicilian crown, after her elder nephew King William II, who did not marry until 1177, and whose marriage remained childless.

During the 12th century, 1172 A. D., Diarmait Mac Murchada, in his fight for the position of Ard Righ, requested King Henry II of England for his assistance.

As Arnold of Lübeck reports in his Chronica Slavorum, he was present at the meeting of Henry the Lion with Kilij-Arslan during the former's pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1172.

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.

With the arrival of the Anglo / Cambro-Normans in 1169, the territory of the old Gaelic kingdom of Meath was granted in around 1172 to Hugh de Lacy by Henry II, King of England.

Henry II ( Plantagenet ) held a parley with Rhys ap Gruffydd at Laugharne Castle in 1172.

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 Synod of Cashel of 1172 was organised by Henry II of England.

The stone Castle Keep was built between 1172 and 1177 by Henry II on the site of Curthose's castle.

Henry II replaced it with a rectangular stone keep, which was built between 1172 and 1177 at a cost of £ 1, 444.

* Matilda FitzRoy, Abbess of Montvilliers ( ca 1102-ca 1172 ), daughter of Henry I of England and Isabel de Beaumont

In 1172 he accompanied King Henry II in the Irish Expedition to County Wexford.

* 1172 – Stephen III of Hungary ( b. 1147 )

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

* King Stephen III of Hungary ( d. 1172 )

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

* 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.

* 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

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 ).

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

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 ).

* Stephen III of Hungary ( died 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 ).

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