His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

1143 ), English chronicler, was sacristan of the church of Beverley in the first half of the twelfth century.

The social system of " courtly love ", as gradually elaborated by the Provençal troubadours from the mid twelfth century, soon spread.

It deals with several specific themes that were the subject of poetical debate among late twelfth century troubadours and trobairitz.

Abu Salih the Armenian, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark.

Extreme Unction was the usual name for the sacrament in the West from the late twelfth century until 1972, and was thus used at the Council of Trent and in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

Up to the twelfth or thirteenth century, the duty of the Apostolic-or Roman Chancery was to prepare and expedite the pontifical letters and writs for collation of church dignities and other matters of grave importance which were discussed and decided in Consistory.

Such names have not yet been shown conclusively to predate the twelfth century, but there are indications that they may be considerably older.

Maimonides, a twelfth century rabbi, discusses Job in his work The Guide for the Perplexed.

The Lutician uprising of 983 practically annihilated it ; bishops continued to be named, but they were merely titular, until the downfall of the Wends in the twelfth century and the German eastward settlement in the diocesan region revived the bishopric.

The font of a type common in Cornwall is of the twelfth century: large and finely carved.

: " From the tenth to the twelfth century Byzantium was the main source of inspiration for the West.

Similarly those of the Palatine Chapel, the Martorana at Palermo, and the cathedral of Cefalù, together with the vast decoration of the cathedral at Monreale, demonstrate the influence of Byzantium on the Norman Court of Sicily in the twelfth century.

Such was the influence of Byzantine art in the twelfth century, that Russia, Venice, southern Italy and Sicily all virtually became provincial centres dedicated to its production.

In the twelfth century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began, with each of them being assigned a church in Rome as his titular church, or being linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses, while still being incardinated in a diocese other than that of Rome.

" There is a wood named " Fethelée " mentioned in a twelfth century document that relates to Stoke Lyne, in Oxfordshire, and it now is thought that the battle of Fethan leag must have been fought in this area.

By the twelfth century great churches in Germany, like those elsewhere were finding it difficult to hold out against the accumulation of lay custom and lay objections to temporary inheritance.

They almost completely superseded hand bows in many European armies in the twelfth century for a number of reasons.

After the middle of the twelfth century, the Ma ' an family superseded the Tanukhs in Druze leadership.

According to later accounts, the Nile had, by around the twelfth century, just six branches.

However, because al-Rammah attributes his material to " his father and forefathers ", al-Hassan argues that gunpowder became prevalent in Syria and Egypt by " the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth ".

Additionally, scholars such as Margot Fassler and Marianna Richert Pfau describe Hildegard's music as highly melismatic, often with recurrent melodic units, and also note her close attention to the relationship between music and text, which was a rare occurrence in monastic chant of the twelfth century.

The exact sources of his work are disputed, but included earlier kings ' sagas, such as Morkinskinna, Fagrskinna and the twelfth century Norwegian synoptic histories and oral traditions, notably many skaldic poems.

The factual content of the work tends to be deemed more credible as it discusses more recent times, as the distance in time between the events described and the composition of the saga was shorter, allowing traditions to be retained in a largely accurate form, and because in the twelfth century the first contemporary written sources begin to emerge in Norway.

The Irish monk Saint Colman ( or Koloman, Irish Colmán, derived from colm " dove ") is buried in Melk Abbey and Saint Fergil ( Virgil the Geometer ) was Bishop of Salzburg for forty years, and twelfth century monastic settlements were founded by Irish Benedictines.

* The Church of San Pedro de la Nave, ( village of El Campillo – 12 km distant ) was founded in the seventh century, rebuilt in the twelfth century, and is one of the three best-preserved Visigothic churches in all of Spain.

In the twelfth century a borough was founded ( 1190 ), and Saltash became the only franchised seaport between Dartmouth and Fowey.

Originally founded in the twelfth century by Benedictine monks, so that local people who lived in the area around the Abbey could worship separately at their own simpler parish church, and historically part of the hundred of Ossulstone in the county of Middlesex, St Margaret's was rebuilt from 1486 to 1523.

The islet's isolation, at some distance from the principal islands forming the actual city of Venice, made it an ideal location for the quarantine station and leper colony founded there in the twelfth century, receiving its name from St. Lazarus, patron saint of lepers.

The Cheshtiya order was founded by Mawdid al-Cheshti who was born in the twelfth century and later taught in India.

The Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of the Captives or Order of the Holy Trinity for short (, also known as Trinitarians ) is a Catholic religious order that was founded in the area of Cerfroid, some 80 km northeast of Paris, at the end of the twelfth century.

CLA has grades preschool through twelfth grade and was founded in 1968 under the auspices of the Church of Christian Liberty.

A claim by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus ( 5th century BCE ) that the city of Kourion, near present-day Limassol, was founded by Archaean settlers from Argos, finds support in the discovery of a Late Bronze Age settlement lying several kilometers from the site of the remains of the Hellenic city of Kourion, whose pottery and architecture indicate that Mycenaean settlers did indeed arrive and augment an existing population in this part of Cyprus in the twelfth century BC.

In the twelfth century, crusaders in the Kingdom of Jerusalem founded the Order of Saint Lazarus.

The Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem ( OSLJ ) is an order of chivalry which originated in a leper hospital founded by Knights Hospitaller in the twelfth century by Crusaders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

It was founded at Calatrava la Vieja in Castile, in the twelfth century by St. Raymond of Fitero, as a military branch of the Cistercian family.

Lilleshall Abbey, some distance to the east of the village, was an Augustinian house, founded in the twelfth century, the ruins of which are protected by English Heritage.

At the age of twelve, Chanel was handed over to the care of nuns, and for the next six years spent a stark, disciplined existence in a convent orphanage, Aubazine, founded in the twelfth century.

It was founded in 1989 by the Halton Catholic District School Board and currently enrolls students from the ninth to twelfth grades.

As president of the Cecilian Society, which position he held from 1899 until his death, as editor of Musica Sacra and Fliegende Blätter für Kirchenmusik, the official organ of the society, as the author of Magister Choralis, now in the twelfth edition, and of innumerable articles on historical, theoretical, and scientific subjects, but especially as director of the school which he founded, Haberl championed the spirit and authority of the Church in musical matters against modernising influences.

The sect began in the twelfth century when a monk named Ryōnin wrote commentary on rituals and hymns in practice at the time and founded the school.

There was a small Augustinian Priory founded in Portbury on land donated by Isabella, Countess of Albemarle in the twelfth century of which there is still a substantial part remaining in the centre of the village.

The RPO sponsors the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, founded in 1970 and composed of Rochester-area student musicians in the eighth through twelfth grades.