Through the Papal bull Manifestis Probatum, issued on May 23, 1179, he also recognized the right of Afonso I to proclaim himself King of Portugal – an important step in the process of Portugal becoming a recognized independent Kingdom.

In 1179, by the papal bull Manifestis Probatum, Pope Alexander III acknowledged Portugal as an independent nation and Afonso and his heirs as her rightful kings.

Manifestis Probatum was a papal bull dated May 23, 1179 in which Pope Alexander III officially recognised Afonso Henriques as the first King of Portugal.

Between 1166 and 1179 new procedures including a division of functions between the sheriff, the jury of local men, and the royal justices ushered in the era of the English Common Law.

In 1179, Bertram de Verdun, the lord of the manor of Croxden, endowed a site for a new abbey, and 12 monks arrived from the Savigniac Cistercian mother house of Aunay-sur-Odon in Normandy to build the new abbey over the next 50 years.

The Second Council of the Lateran in 1139 removed the requirement that the assent of the lower clergy and the laity be obtained, while the Third Council of the Lateran in 1179 gave equal rights to the entire College of Cardinals when electing a new pope.

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

In August 1179, the new Templar fortress was captured and the knights stationed there were beheaded by the Muslim forces.

The reign of Philip II Augustus ( junior king 1179 – 1180, senior king 1180 – 1223 ) marked an important step in the history of French monarchy.

In 1179 Afonso I was declared, by the Pope, as king.

In November 1179, he represented his father at the coronation of Philip Augustus as associate king of France at Reims.

In 1179, the king met with some military setbacks in the north.

The dozen pairs played a role in the royal sacre or consecration, during the liturgy of the coronation of the king, attested to as early as 1179, symbolically upholding his crown, and each original peer had a specific role, often with an attribute.

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.

Rigord wrote the Gesta Philippi Augusti, dealing with the life of the French king, Philip Augustus, from his coronation in 1179 until 1206.

In 1179, Waldo and one of his disciples went to Rome where they were welcomed by Pope Alexander III, and the Roman Curia.

Another step was when Pope Alexander III in 1179 " forbidding masters of the church schools to take fees for granting the license to teach ( licentia docendi ), and obliging them to give license to properly qualified teachers ".

As a courtier of King Henry II of England he was sent on missions to Louis VII of France and to Pope Alexander III, probably attending the Third Lateran Council in 1179 and encountering a delegation of Waldensians.

Although it is likely that schoolboys were taught by monks well beforehand, by 1179 Westminster School had certainly become a public school ( i. e., a school available to members of the public from across the country, so long as they could pay their own costs, rather than private tuition provided to the nobility ) as a decree of Pope Alexander III required the Benedictine monks of the Abbey at Westminster to provide a charity school to local boys.

The Hospitallers were rivals of the Knights Templar, but Pope Alexander III persuaded Roger to make a truce with them in 1179.

In 1179, Pope Alexander III elevated the Abbot to a Canon and confirmed the Abbots title to Courtelary.

A nephew of Rabbi Nathan ben Jehiel acted as administrator of the property of Pope Alexander III, who showed his amicable feelings toward the Jews at the Lateran Council of 1179, where he defeated the designs of hostile prelates who advocated anti-Jewish laws.

Opponents of Pope Alexander III tried to make him Pope in September 1179.

In 1179 Pope Alexander III confirmed the rights of the Abbey of Moutier-Grandval to their property in Corgémont.

Alan spent many years teaching at the school in Paris and he attended the Lateran Council in 1179.

In 1179 the privileges and favours given to the Roman Catholic Church were compensated.

He was appointed Constable of Jerusalem soon after April 22, 1179.

Decisions of Catholic Church councils — in particular, those of the Council of Tours ( 1163 ) and of the Third Council of the Lateran ( 1179 )— had scarcely more effect upon the Cathars.

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.

The Third Council of the Lateran of 1179 guaranteed the access – now largely free of charge – of all able applicants, who were, however, still tested for aptitude by the ecclesiastic scholastic.

* Canon 11 renews the ordinance of the council of 1179 on free schools for clerics in connexion with every cathedral.

In the 12th century, German Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen ( 1098 – 1179 ) wrote several influential theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations.

File: Hildegard. jpg | Hildegard von Bingen ( 1098 – 1179 )

(; ) ( 1098 – 17 September 1179 ), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.

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.

* 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros.

In 1179, the Crusaders rebuilt the Monastery of St. George of Koziba, at its original site six miles from the center of town.

Hugh III of Burgundy was expected to come to Jerusalem and marry Sibylla, but Hugh was unable to leave France due to the political unrest there in 1179 – 1180 following the death of Louis VII.

* 1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.

In 1059 the electorate was restricted to the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, and the individual votes of all Cardinal Electors were made equal in 1179.

In March 1179, Alexander III held the Third Council of the Lateran, one of the most important mediaeval church councils, reckoned by the Roman Church as the eleventh ecumenical council.

Nevertheless, soon after the close of the synod, the Roman Republic forced Alexander III to leave the city, which he never re-entered, and on 29 September 1179, some nobles set up the Antipope Innocent III.

He appears as signatory of the papal bulls issued between 15 October 1179 and 11 December 1187.

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

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