1160s in England

Events from the 1160s in England.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry II

Events

 * 1160
 * 2 November – betrothal of 5-year-old Henry the Young King and 2-year-old Marguerite, daughter of Louis VII of France; she brings Norman Vexin to the English crown as a dowry.
 * The island of Lundy is granted to the Knights Templar by Henry II.
 * Approximate date – Derby School is founded by Walkelin de Derby in Derby; it will survive until 1989.
 * 1161
 * 5 January – canonisation of Edward the Confessor.
 * c. April – Bartholomew becomes Bishop of Exeter.
 * 1162
 * 3 June – Thomas Becket consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury and resigns as Lord Chancellor.
 * Becket decrees that Trinity Sunday should henceforth be celebrated in England.
 * King Henry II raises the Danegeld (by now, merely a royal tax) for the last time.
 * 1163
 * January – Henry II suppresses a revolt in Wales, and captures Prince Rhys ap Gruffydd.
 * 6 March – Gilbert Foliot is translated from Hereford to become Bishop of London, an office which he will hold until his death in 1187.
 * 1 July – Henry calls the Welsh princes and King Malcolm IV of Scotland to do homage at Woodstock Palace; the Welsh rebel.
 * 1 October – Becket resists Henry II's demands to extend the jurisdiction of secular courts to the clergy.
 * 13 October – the bones of Edward the Confessor are translated to Westminster Abbey.
 * John of Salisbury completes his Life of Anselm.
 * 1164
 * 30 January – Henry II enacts the Constitutions of Clarendon (at Clarendon Palace in Wiltshire) in an attempt to restore royal jurisdiction over the Church.
 * 2 November – Becket found guilty of contempt of court and goes into exile to the Continent.
 * 1165
 * July – Henry II fails to quell a rebellion in Wales.
 * 1166
 * July – Henry II conquers Brittany, granting the territory to his son Geoffrey.
 * Henry enacts the Assize of Clarendon, reforming the law, underpinning the importance of jury trial and defining the legal duties of sheriffs.
 * Anglo-Norman soldier William Marshal is knighted while on campaign in Normandy; he will be described as "the greatest knight that ever lived".
 * 1167
 * The exiled King of Leinster, Diarmait Mac Murchada, having paid homage to Henry, begins to recruit Norman knights for an invasion of Ireland.
 * Increased enrolment at the University of Oxford after English students are barred from attending Paris University.
 * Earliest likely date for construction of building much later known as Marlipins Museum in Shoreham-by-Sea commencing, one of the earliest surviving secular buildings in England.
 * 1168
 * 1 February – Henry II's daughter, Matilda, marries Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony.
 * 1169
 * January – Treaty of Montmirail: Henry II agrees to divide his French territories amongst his sons; Aquitaine to Richard, Brittany to Geoffrey, and the remainder to Henry.
 * 1 May – Norman barons land an invasion force at Wexford in support of Dermot.

Births

 * 1162
 * 13 October – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)
 * Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (died 1218)
 * 1163
 * Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford (died 1214)
 * 1165
 * October – Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, daughter of Henry II of England (died 1199)
 * 1166
 * 24 December – John of England (died 1216)
 * William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (died 1240)

Deaths

 * 1161
 * 18 April – Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 1090)
 * 1166
 * c. 27 December – Robert de Chesney, Bishop of Lincoln
 * 1167
 * 12 January – Aelred of Rievaulx, abbot (born 1110)
 * 27 February – Robert of Melun, theologian and bishop (born c. 1100)
 * 10 September – Empress Matilda, first female ruler of England (born 1102)
 * 1168
 * 5 April – Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Justiciar (born 1104)
 * 1169
 * July – Hilary of Chichester, bishop (born c. 1110)