Events

• Saladin unsuccessfully besieges the Hospitaller fortress of Krak des Chevaliers in modern Syria.
• Newgate Prison is built.
• Richard Lionheart allies with Philip II of France against his father, Henry II of England.
• Giraldus Cambrensis and Baldwin of Exeter travel through Wales attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade.
• The "Saladin tithe" is levied in England.
• Alfonso IX of Castile becomes king of Leon.
• Queen Tamar of Georgia marries David Soslan.

Births

• March 4 - Blanche of Castile (died 1252)

Deaths

• August 22 - Ferdinand II of Leon
• October 11 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
• Usamah ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (born 1095)

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