Byzantine Emperor
Manuel I Komnenos asks
Venice to help pay the costs of defending
Sicily, whose Norman rulers have had good relations with Venice. Doge
Vitale II Michiel refuses to pay the requested subsidy. Manuel begins to cultivate relationships with the main commercial rivals of Venice:
Genoa and
Pisa. He grants them their own trade quarters in
Constantinople, very near the Venetian settlements.
Summer –
Henry II of England invades and conquers
Brittany to punish the local Breton barons. He grants the territory to his 7-year-old son
Geoffrey.[1]
Cartae Baronum ("Charters of the Barons"), a survey commissioned by the English
Treasury requiring each baron to declare how many knights he had enfeoffed.
Byzantine Emperor
Manuel I Komnenos asks
Venice to help pay the costs of defending
Sicily, whose Norman rulers have had good relations with Venice. Doge
Vitale II Michiel refuses to pay the requested subsidy. Manuel begins to cultivate relationships with the main commercial rivals of Venice:
Genoa and
Pisa. He grants them their own trade quarters in
Constantinople, very near the Venetian settlements.
Summer –
Henry II of England invades and conquers
Brittany to punish the local Breton barons. He grants the territory to his 7-year-old son
Geoffrey.[1]
Cartae Baronum ("Charters of the Barons"), a survey commissioned by the English
Treasury requiring each baron to declare how many knights he had enfeoffed.