1120s in England

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.
 * 1121
 * 24 January – Henry I marries Adeliza of Louvain at Windsor Castle.
 * June – Reading Abbey founded by Henry I.
 * Plympton Priory in Devon re-founded as an Augustinian house by William Warelwast, Bishop of Exeter.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1127
 * 1 January – English nobles accept Matilda as heir.
 * 1128
 * 17 June – Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to the Count of Anjou.
 * Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley in Surrey.
 * 1129
 * 4 October – Henry of Blois becomes Bishop of Winchester, an office which he will hold until his death in 1171.

Births

 * 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