1133

Year 1133 (MCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1110s 1120s 1130s 1140s 1150s
Years:	1130 1131 1132 1133 1134 1135 1136

1133 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1133 MCXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1886
Armenian calendar	582 ԹՎ ՇՁԲ
Assyrian calendar	5883
Balinese saka calendar	1054–1055
Bengali calendar	540
Berber calendar	2083
English Regnal year	33 Hen. 1 – 34 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1677
Burmese calendar	495
Byzantine calendar	6641–6642
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3829 or 3769     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3830 or 3770
Coptic calendar	849–850
Discordian calendar	2299
Ethiopian calendar	1125–1126
Hebrew calendar	4893–4894
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1189–1190
- Shaka Samvat	1054–1055
- Kali Yuga	4233–4234
Holocene calendar	11133
Igbo calendar	133–134
Iranian calendar	511–512
Islamic calendar	527–528
Japanese calendar	Chōshō 2 (長承２年)
Javanese calendar	1039–1040
Julian calendar	1133 MCXXXIII
Korean calendar	3466
Minguo calendar	779 before ROC 民前779年
Nanakshahi calendar	−335
Seleucid era	1444/1445 AG
Thai solar calendar	1675–1676
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1259 or 878 or 106     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1260 or 879 or 107

King Alfonso I (the Battler) of Aragon

Events

Europe

• Spring – A German expeditionary force led by King Lothair III marches into Northern Italy, and arrives at Rome after a 6-month journey across the Alps. Accompanied by Bernard of Clairvaux, French abbot and Doctor of the Church, Lothair is crowned by Pope Innocent II as Holy Roman Emperor at the Church of the Lateran on June 4. He receives as papal fiefs the vast estates of Matilda, former margravine of Tuscany, which he secures for his daughter Gertrude of Süpplingenburg and her husband, Duke Henry X (the Proud) of Bavaria.
• July 17 – Battle of Fraga: The Castellan troops led by King Alfonso I (the Battler) defeat the Almoravid army, thanks to a timely intervention of a Norman Crusader army from Tarragona, led by Robert Bordet.[1]
• Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona, launches a raid against Almoravid-held territories in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), and pillages the country all the way to Cadiz.[2]

Religion

• The first convent on Iceland, the Þingeyraklaustur, is inaugurated at a monastery of the Order of Saint Benedict (located in Þingeyrar).
• Antipope Anacletus II forces Innocent II out of Rome following the departure of Lothair III. Innocent flees and takes ship to Pisa.
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, an English cleric, writes the chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae.
• Rijnsburg Abbey is founded by Petronilla of Lorraine, countess and regent of Holland.
• Construction of the chapter house at Durham Cathedral and is completed in 1140.

Births

• March 5 – Henry II (Curtmantle), king of England (d. 1189)
• May 13 – Hōnen, Japanese religious reformer (d. 1212)
• Abu al-Abbas al-Jarawi, Moroccan poet (d. 1212)
• Abu Mansur Isma'il Al-Zafir, Fatimid caliph (d. 1154)
• Andronikos Doukas Angelos, Byzantine aristocrat
• Faidiva of Toulouse, countess of Savoy (d. 1154)
• Ralph de Sudeley, English nobleman (d. 1192)
• Sigurd II (or Sigurd Munn), king of Norway (d. 1155)
• Urraca of Castile, queen of Navarre (d. 1179)
• Stephen IV, king of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1165)
• Thorlak Thorhallsson, Icelandic bishop (d. 1193
• Zhang Shi, Chinese Confucian scholar (d. 1181)

Deaths

• February 19 – Irene Doukaina, Byzantine empress (b. 1066)
• May 1 – Manegold von Mammern, German abbot
• December 4 – Bernard degli Uberti, Italian bishop
• December 18 – Hildebert, French hagiographer (b. 1055)
• December 21 – Guigues III (the Old), French nobleman
• Dirmicius of Regensburg, Irish monk and abbot
• Gregory of Catino, Italian monk and historian (b. 1060)
• þorlákur Runólfsson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1086)

References

1. McGrank 1981.
2. Meynier 2010.

Sources

• McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders in the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and the principality of Tarragona, 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History. 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.

• Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518) (in French). Paris: La Découverte. p. 86. ISBN 978-2707152312.