1120s in England

none Events from the 1120s in England. Incumbents Monarch – Henry I Events 1120 25 November – sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel off Barfleur. King Henry I of England's only legitimate son, William Adelin, is among 300 who drown.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/118 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 118–120 1121 24 January – Henry I marries Adeliza of Louvain at Windsor Castle. June – Reading Abbey founded by Henry I.https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12673a.htm Reading Abbey Catholic Encyclopedia 2007-12-19 Plympton Priory in Devon re-founded as an Augustinian house by William Warelwast, Bishop of Exeter.A. D. Fizzard Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages 2007 Foss Dyke scoured. 1122 Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, established as an Augustinian house. 1123 18 February – William de Corbeil enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. 26 August – first Bishop of Bath (Godfrey) consecrated. Louis VI of France supports rebels against English rule in Normandy. St Bartholomew's Hospital in London founded by Rahere. 1124 Henry I unsuccessfully invades the Kingdom of France, having defeated rebels in Normandy. Christmas – moneyers punished by castration following runaway inflation.Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1125 William of Malmesbury completes his histories of England, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum. 1126 Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York declared equal. 25 December – Henry I asks his nobles to recognise Empress Matilda as his heir.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/normanbritain_timeline_noflash.shtml British History Timeline, Norman Britain BBC History 2007-12-19 1127 1 January – English nobles accept Matilda as heir. 1128 17 June – the dowager Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to the Count of Anjou, in Le Mans. Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley in Surrey.http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.15106 Waverley Abbey English Heritage 2007-12-19 1129 4 October – Henry of Blois becomes Bishop of Winchester, an office which he will hold until his death in 1171.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 60–62 0-7126-5616-2 Births 1120 Approximate date – John of Salisbury, bishop and scholar (died 1180 in France) 1125 Renaud de Courtenay, noble (died 1194) Deaths 1120 25 November – White Ship William Adelin, son of Henry I (born 1103) Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, Anglo-Norman noble and soldier (born 1094) Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England 1122 20 October – Ralph d'Escures, Archbishop of Canterbury 1124 15 March – Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester (born 1040, France) 1126 Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (born 1052) 1128 5 September – Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham 1129 January – Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester (born 1074, France) Symeon of Durham, chronicler References