1140
Calendar year
Conrad III at the Siege of Weinsberg
Year 1140 (MCXL ) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Levant
Europe
England and Scotland
Asia
By topic
Religion
Literature
Births
May 28 – Xin Qiji , Chinese military leader (d. 1207 )
Adela of Champagne , queen of France (d. 1206 )
Alan Fitz Walter , Scottish High Steward (d. 1204 )
Cadfan ap Cadwaladr , Welsh nobleman (d. 1215 )
Davyd Rostislavich , Kievan Grand Prince (d. 1197 )
Domhnall Caomhánach , king of Leinster (d. 1175 )
Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi , German rabbi (d. 1225 )
Fujiwara no Tashi , Japanese empress (d. 1202 )
Gerard de Ridefort , Flemish Grand Master (d. 1189 )
Hedwig , margravine of Meissen (approximate date)
Hugh de Paduinan , Norman nobleman (d. 1189 )
John I , archbishop of Trier (approximate date)
John I , Norman nobleman (approximate date)
John of Ford , English Cistercian abbot (d. 1224 )
Manfred II , marquess of Saluzzo (approximate date)
Minamoto no Yoshihira , Japanese nobleman (d. 1160 )
Peter Waldo , French spiritual leader (d. 1205 )
Raymond III , crusader and count of Tripoli (d. 1187 )
Raymond the Palmer , Italian pilgrim (d. 1200 )
Simon II , duke of Lorraine (approximate date)
Sophia of Minsk , queen of Denmark (d. 1198 )
Walter Map , Welsh clergyman and writer (d. 1210 )
William FitzRalph , English High Sheriff (d. 1200 )
Yuan Cai , Chinese scholar and official (d. 1195 )
Deaths
January 12 – Louis I , German nobleman
February 6 – Thurstan , archbishop of York
February 14
August 21 – Yang Zaixing , Chinese general
August 31 – Godebold , bishop of Meissen
September 15 – Adelaide , duchess of Bohemia
November 16 – Wulgrin II , count of Angoulême
Aibert , French monk and hermit (b. 1060 )
Baldwin of Rieti , Italian Benedictine abbot
Diego Gelmírez , Galician archbishop (b. 1069 )
Gaucherius , French priest and hermit (b. 1060)
Hugh the Chanter , English historian and writer
Kumarapala , Indian ruler of the Pala Empire
Lhachen Naglug , Indian ruler of Ladakh (b. 1110 )
Li Gang , Chinese Grand Chancellor (b. 1083 )
Toba Sōjō , Japanese artist -monk (b. 1053 )
Wanyan Xiyin , Chinese chief adviser
References