In declining health, Louis VII had him crowned and anointed at Rheims by the Archbishop William Whitehands on 1 November in 1179.

* William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle ( died 1179 )

* October 4 – William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu ( b. 1179 )

After Amalric's death, William became chancellor and archbishop of Tyre, two of the highest offices in the kingdom, and in 1179 William led the eastern delegation to the Third Council of the Lateran.

In 1179, William was one of the delegates from Jerusalem and the other crusader states at the Third Lateran Council ; among the others were Heraclius, archbishop of Caesarea, Joscius, bishop of Acre and William's future successor in Tyre, the bishops of Sebastea, Bethlehem, Tripoli, and Jabala, and the abbot of Mount Sion.

By the time of the French state tournament of 1179 at Lagny-sur-Marne, held to celebrate the coronation of Philip II of France, William Marshal was sufficiently wealthy to raise his own banner over his own company of knights.

Following his injury in a fall from the scaffolding in 1179 he was replaced by one of his former assistants, known as " William the Englishman ".

* William VII of Montpellier ( d. 1179 )

William died after 1179 and was succeeded by his son, William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, who gained the favour of both King Richard I and King John and became a dominant force in the Welsh Marches during their reigns.

* William IV, Count of Ponthieu ( 1179 – 1221 )

In 1179, the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus offered his daughter Maria the Porphyrogenita as a bride to one of the sons of William V. Since Boniface, like his older brother Conrad, was already married, and Frederick was a priest, the youngest brother, Renier, married her instead, only to be murdered along with her during the usurpation of Andronicus.

At Armagh there was a " Templum Brigidis "; namely the little abbey church known as " Regles Brigid ", which contained some relics of the saint, destroyed in 1179, by William FitzAldelm.

* William White Hands, 1135 – 1202, Archbishop of Reims 1176 – 1202, Cardinal 1179

A contract between Bishop Kuno and his maior William of Turn from 1179, is seen as the first step in the creation of an independent city government.

* William le Gros 1127 – 1179

As archbishops, Heraclius and William attended the Third Lateran Council in 1179.

* William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle ( died 1179 ), Count of Aumale, Earl of York, and Lord of Holderness

* William de Braose ( d. after 1179 )

William IV Talvas ( 1179 – October 4, 1221 ) was William III, Count of Ponthieu and William IV ( of the house of Belleme / Montgomery ).

In its final form the Gesta is an epitome of the work of Rigord, who wrote a life of Philip Augustus from 1179 to 1206, and an original continuation by William himself from 1207 to 1220.

In 1179 Henry went to Jerusalem again with a party of French knights including his relatives Peter of Courtenay ( brother of Louis VII ) and Philip of Dreux, bishop of Beauvais.

He succeeded his brother, Simon II, who had already given him the county of Bitche in 1176 and had recognised him over the northern, germanophone half of Lorraine by the Treaty of Ribemont of 1179.

In 1179, a three-year civil war ended in Lorraine and Duke Simon II was forced to agree to the Treaty of Ribemont, whereby Lorrain was divided: the northern, germanophone half going to Simon's brother Frederick and the southern, francophone half to Simon, who had tried to appease Frederick by giving him the county of Bitche.

The increasing cruelty of his reign led to a major revolt there in 1179.

In April 1179, the Crusaders led by King Baldwin expected no resistance and waited to launch a surprise attack on Muslim herders grazing their herds and flocks east of the Golan Heights.

In 1179, he married into the Hōjō clan, led by Hōjō Tokimasa.

In 1179, following the family's alliance with Manuel I Comnenos, Conrad led an army against Frederick Barbarossa's forces, then commanded by the imperial Chancellor, Archbishop Christian of Mainz.

From the founding of Drikung Thil Monastery in 1179 to the present day, the Drikung Kagyu lineage has been led by a succession of spiritual heads (" throne-holders ").

The date of the book is disputed ; it describes 6 circuits of itinerant justices ; academics argue, therefore, that it must have been written before 1179, when the number of circuits was reduced to 4 ; this requires, however, that the changes to the circuits came into immediate effect, and Richardson argues that there is nothing in the Pipe Rolls to support this assumption.

The castle was turned into a proto-Romanesque palace of stone in the 12th century ( probably after 1179 ), maybe because King Béla III ( 1173 – 1196 ) decided to make Esztergom the definitive seat of kings of the Kingdom of Hungary.

They had already been called into the neighbouring Kingdom of Aragon, and been rewarded by a new encomienda ( landed estate ), that of Alcañiz ( 1179 ).

To protect Peri the Doctor returns the TARDIS into the Timelash and calculates the normal path of the Timelash would be to 1179 on Earth, but the interference of the TARDIS caused her instead to end up in Scotland in 1885.

He resigned his office between September 1178 and Easter of 1179, and retired to Lesnes Abbey in Kent, where Richard de Luci died and was buried three months later on 14 July 1179.

Agnes took ship in Montpellier, bound for Constantinople, at Easter 1179.

Of others in South Italy and Sicily, the following are the finest: in Sant Andrea, Amalfi ( 1060 ); Salerno ( 1099 ); Canosa ( 1111 ); Troia, two doors ( 1119 and 1124 ); Ravello ( 1179 ), by Barisano of Trani, who also made doors for Trani cathedral ; and in Monreale and Pisa cathedrals, by Bonano of Pisa.

On 17 September 1179, when Hildegard died, her sisters claimed they saw two streams of light appear in the skies and cross over the room where she was dying.

Another milestone in this alliance was the Treaty of Cazorla between the two kings in 1179, delineating zones of conquest in the south along the watershed of the rivers Júcar and Segura.

In 1179, Masako met the young exile Yoritomo, and the two fell in love.

As early as 1177, Sverre was proclaimed king by his followers, but in reality his power did not extend beyond the borders of Trøndelag and it took two decisive battles in 1179 and 1184 before he could be formally elected king.

Although the arbitration decision was ignored for two years, in 1179 the contending kings finally agreed to a peace on the same terms.

Subsequently the coat of arms was also abated: Prince Boleslaw Wstydliwy of Poland ( 1127 – 1179 ), exiled the knight Grzymała, owner of Gos ' lice in the Palatinate of Płock, on the suspicion of treacherous dealings with Prince Kazimierz of Kujaw, and as further evidence of the Prince's displeasure closed the gate in this knight's coat of arms.