He is best known for his chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ) of 1136, which spread Celtic motifs to a wider audience, including accounts of Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, wizard Merlin, and sword Caliburnus ( named as Excalibur in some manuscripts of Wace ).

William de Corbeil or William of Corbeil () ( circa 1070 – 1136 ) was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury.

Redechius () was a legendary king of the Britons according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain ( 1136 ).

Eldol () is a legendary king of Britain in Geoffrey of Monmouth's circa 1136 work Historia Regum Britanniae (" The History of the Kings of Britain ").

The Historia Regum Britanniae () is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written c. 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Al-Rashid ( 1109 – 6 June 1138 ) () was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1135 to 1136.

Al-Muqtafi ( 1096 – 12 March 1160 ) () was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1136 to 1160.

Amalric I of Jerusalem ( also Amaury or Aimery ) ( 1136 – 11 July 1174 ) was King of Jerusalem 1163 – 1174, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon before his accession.

Amalric was born in 1136 to King Fulk, the former count of Anjou who had married the heiress of the kingdom, Melisende, daughter of King Baldwin II.

Upon Jutta's death in 1136, Hildegard was unanimously elected as " magistra " of the community by her fellow nuns.

According to the Annales Cracovienses Compilati, this event took place in 1136 ; since it can be assumed that the Polish princess was younger than her betrothed, and also are known the birth dates of the youngest children of Bolesław III ( Agnes in 1137 and Casimir in 1138 ), Judith in consequence could have been born between 1130 and 1135.

A second expedition by Lothar III in 1136 was not more decisive in its results, and the protracted struggle between the rival pontiffs was terminated only by the death of Anacletus II on 25 January 1138.

Amalfi, one of the Maritime Republics ( though already declining under Norman rule ), was conquered on 6 August 1136: the Pisans destroyed the ships in the port, assaulted the castles in the surrounding areas and drove back an army sent by Roger from Aversa.

According to the Historia Regum Britanniae written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in around 1136, " the coast of Totnes " was where Brutus of Troy, the mythical founder of Britain, first came ashore on the island.

Having been abruptly recalled into Anjou by a revolt of his barons, he returned to the charge in September 1136 with a strong army, including in its ranks William, duke of Aquitaine, Geoffrey, count of Vendôme, and William Talvas, count of Ponthieu, but after a few successes was wounded in the foot at the siege of Le Sap ( 1 October ) and had to fall back.

In 1136, while the count was in Normandy, Robert III of Sablé put himself at the head of the movement, to which Geoffrey responded by destroying Briollay and occupying La Suze, and Robert of Sable himself was forced to beg humbly for pardon through the intercession of the bishop of Angers.

Year 1136 ( MCXXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

In 1136, he married Gertrude of Sulzbach, who was a daughter of Berengar II of Sulzbach, and whose sister Bertha was married to Emperor Manuel.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Merobaudes and Saturninus ( or, less frequently, year 1136 Ab urbe condita ).

Husband and wife reconciled by 1136 and a second son, Amalric, was born.

1136 ), basis for many English and Welsh legends, Maximianus as he calls him, was a Roman senator and nephew of Coel Hen through his brother Ioelinus and was king of the Brythons following the death of Octavius.

Harald Gille ( Old Norse: Haraldr gilli or Haraldr gillikristr ) ( died 14 December 1136 ) was king of Norway from 1130 until his death in 1136.

Harald now ruled the country until 1136, when he was murdered by Sigurd Slembedjakn, another alleged illegitimate son of Magnus Barefoot.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain ( 1136 ), Constantius was sent to Britain by the Senate after Asclepiodotus, here a British king, was overthrown by Coel of Colchester.

Work was begun on the Royal Portal with the south lintel around 1136 and with all its sculpture installed up to 1141.

It was repaired or replaced by William II, destroyed by fire in 1136, and rebuilt in the reign of Stephen.

The castle was constructed c. 1116 A Priory, later to become Walden Abbey, was also founded under the patronage of Geoffrey de Mandeville, first Earl of Essex around 1136.

Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165.

A revolt spread through south Wales in 1136, and Gruffydd ap Rhys, aided by his two eldest sons, Anarawd and Cadell, defeated the Normans in a battle near Loughor, killing over five hundred.

Maredudd became ruler of Deheubarth and continued a campaign, begun in 1150, aimed at recovering Ceredigion, which had been held by Gwynedd since 1136.

The royal charter of 1136 had promised to review the ownership of all the lands that had been taken by the crown from the church since 1087, but these estates were now typically owned by nobles.

From the first Geoffrey Plantagenet tried to profit by his marriage and, after the death of Henry I ( 1 December 1135 ), laid the foundation of the conquest of Normandy by a series of campaigns: about the end of 1135 or the beginning of 1136 he entered that country and rejoined his wife, the countess Matilda, who had received the submission of Argentan, Domfront and Exmes.

His eldest son, Leopold IV, became margrave in 1136, and in 1139 received from the German king Conrad III the duchy of Bavaria, which had been forfeited by Henry the Proud.

An established market had been created in Wells by 1136, and it remained under episcopal control until its city charter from Elizabeth I in 1589.

Chorzów is believed to be first mentioned as Zversov or Zuersov ( u and v were written similar in Middle Ages ) in a document of 1136 by Pope Innocent II as village with peasants, silver miners and two inns.

In 1136, the long-awaited imperial army, led by Lothair and the duke of Bavaria, Henry the Proud, descended the peninsula to support the three rebels.

Caradoc of Llancarfan, who wrote his Life of Gildas before 1136, recounts how she was kidnapped by Melwas, king of the " Summer Country " ( Aestiva Regio, perhaps meaning Somerset ), and held prisoner at his stronghold at Glastonbury.

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae ( c. 1136 ), Gorlois Duke of Cornwall puts his wife Igraine in Tintagol while he's at war ( posuit eam in oppido Tintagol in littore maris: " he put her in the oppidum Tintagol on the shore of the sea ").

This Richmond was the eponymous honour of the Earls of Richmond ( or comtes de Richemont ), a dignity normally also held by the Duke of Brittany from 1136 to 1399.

Emperor Lothair III had Byzantine backing, including a large financial subsidy, for his invasion of Norman territory in 1136, which reached as far south as Bari.

From his own statements it is gathered that he crossed to France about 1136, and began regular studies in Paris under Peter Abelard, who had for a brief period re-opened his famous school there on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève.

This suggestion cannot have led to any idea that he and Stephen were rivals for the Crown, as Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1136 referred to Robert as one of the ' pillars ' of the new King's rule.

Though little is known of his actual life and deeds except for his last years as Grand Master, he is the best known Templar, along with the Order's founder and first Grand Master, Hugues de Payens ( 1070 – 1136 ).

* Libya: A region associated with the seasonal migration of cranes ( lines 710, 1136 ), it allows for a pun on the Greek word libas ( anything that drops or trickles ) – Euelpides claims to be a Libyan bird on the grounds that he has wet himself with fear ( 65 ).

King Arthur's encounter with the giant of St Michael's Mount-or Mont Saint Michel in Brittany-was related by Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae in 1136, and published by Sir Thomas Malory in 1485 in the fifth chapter of the fifth book of Le Morte d ' Arthur: Then came to Arthur an husbandman ... and told him how there was ... a great giant which had slain, murdered and devoured much people of the country ... journeyed to the Mount, discovered the giant roasting dead children, ... and hailed him, saying ... rise and dress thee, thou glutton, for this day shalt thou die of my hand.

In 1136 a campaign against the Normans was launched from Gwynedd in revenge for the execution of Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd ap Cynan, the wife of the Prince of Deheubarth and the daughter of Gruffydd.

Confusingly, Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Historia Regum Britanniae ( 1136 ), uses the name Samuil Penessil for a legendary pre-Roman king of Britain, preceded by Redechius and succeeded by Pir.

He was the party's parliamentary candidate for the Finchley and Golders Green constituency, where he came fourth with 1136 votes ( 2. 6 %) in the General Election of 2005.

On the site of a former nunnery at Chich, Richard de Belmeis of London, in the reign of Henry I founded a priory for canons of Saint Augustine, and dedicated it to Saint Osgyth ; his remains were buried in the chancel of the church in 1127: he bequeathed the church and tithes to the canons, who elected as their first abbot or prior William de Corbeil, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury ( died in 1136 ).

When the name Cuiavia arose for the first time in the 1136 Bull of Gniezno, it referred to the lands east of Greater Poland around Kruszwica and Włocławek, bordering with the Vistula river.

In his Major League career, Miñoso hit for a. 298 batting average, with 186 home runs, 1023 RBI, 1136 runs, 1963 hits, 336 doubles, 83 triples, 205 stolen bases, 814 walks and 192 hit by pitch.

In 1136, a peace treaty between King David and King Stephen was signed at Durham, but in 1138 Rufus ' castle of Norham surrendered to King David, an act that brought condemnation to the bishop for failing to defend the castle adequately.

Loriga was the municipal seat since the 12th century, receiving forals in 1136 ( João Rhânia, master of the Terras de Loriga for over two decades, during the reign of Afonso Henriques ), 1249 ( during the reign of Afonso III ), 1474 ( under King Afonso V ) and finally in 1514 ( by King Manuel I ).

It is an octosyllabic rhymed chronicle written between 1136 and 1137 for Constance, wife of Ralph FitzGilbert, a Lincolnshire landowner.

William de Corbeil ( died 1136 ) became archbishop of Canterbury, but nothing is known for certain about his parentage.

Reginmar ( 1121 – 38 ), Reginbert, Count of Hegenau ( 1136 – 47 ) who took part in the crusade of Conrad III, and Conrad of Austria ( 1149 – 64 ), a brother of Bishop Otto of Freising, were all much interested in the foundation of new monasteries and the reform for those already existing.

On 5 February 1136, Stephen reached Durham with a large force of mercenaries from Flanders and forced David to negotiate a treaty by which the Scots were granted the towns of Carlisle and Doncaster, for the return of Wark, Alnwick, Norham and Newcastle.

In 1136 it was besieged for three months by King Stephen.

Blansko was mentioned for the first time as a castle in 1136, while a town began to develop near it by 1277.

By October 1974 it was 1136 meters long and featured two passenger stations with a closed-loop track, adding two additional vehicles for a total of five.