Girling hydraulic brakes were fitted, initially 7 in drums but quickly increased to A new side-valve engine of 1172 cc engine was fitted having the same bore, stroke and layout of the previous engine, but in all other respects completely different.

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.

During the summer of 1172, a Nubian army along with a contingent of Armenian refugees were reported on the Egyptian border, preparing for a siege against Aswan.

* Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke ( 1172 – 1220 )

Richard de Clare ( also known as Strongbow ) and other Norman knights came to Kilkenny in 1172, the high ground beside the River Nore was as an ideal site on which to build a wooden tower.

* 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.

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 ".

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 ).

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.

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

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, following the subjugation of the Pale in Ireland, Henry III gave Bristolians the right to reside in and trade from Dublin.

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.

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

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

In the 12th century the foundations of Venice's power were laid: the Venetian Arsenal was under construction in 1104 ; the last autocratic doge, Vital II Michele, died in 1172.

In 1172 Count Girard II bequeathed his lands to the Counts of Barcelona.

# Conrad II, Duke of Swabia and Rothenburg ( February / March 1172 – killed, Durlach, 15 August 1196 ).

To ensure that his brothers would not inherit his territories, in his will Girard II left all his lands to Alfonso II of Aragon, who took possession in 1172.

* Stephen III of Hungary ( 1147 – 1172 ), eldest son of King Geza II

* Girard II of Roussillon ( died 1172 ), count of Roussillon

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

In 1172 the sons of the Silesian Piast Duke Władysław II the Exile divided their heritage, and Cieszyn fell to Mieszko I of Racibórz and his Duchy of Racibórz.

Mstislav II Izyaslavich ( Мстислав Изяславич in Russian ) ( died 1172 ), Kniaz ' ( Prince ) of Pereyaslav, Volodymyr-Volynsky and Velikiy Kniaz ( Grand Prince ) of Kiev ( 1167 – 1169, 1170 ).

In 1172, Leopold married Helena, a daughter of King Géza II of Hungary.

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.

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.

*( 2 ) Maud FitzEdith, daughter of Robert FitzEdith, Lord Okehampton ( d. 1172 ) ( illegitimate son of Henry I, King of England by Edith FitzForne ).

Maud, Abbess of Montivilliers was a natural daughter of Henry I of England and his young mistress Isabel de Beaumont ( ca 1102-ca 1172 ), herself a sister of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester.