[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History DEC 1

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1083 - Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
1525 - Tadeás Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)

Deaths:
1135 - Henry I of England
1241 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1214)
1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
1530 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
1581 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)
1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)

Other Events:
0772 Pope Adrian I elected
1145 Pope Eugene III sent a papal bull to the French King, Louis VII,
proclaiming the Second Crusade. Led by Louis and Emperor Conrad III from
1147-49, the crusade failed to accomplish its goal.
1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1170: Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, returns to England from
exile
1372: Geoffrey Chaucer left England for Rome on a Royal mission
1566 Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
1590: Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is registered for publication