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.Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 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 – the dowager Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to the Count of Anjou, in Le Mans. 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 1120 Approximate date – John of Salisbury, bishop and scholar (died 1180 in France) 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
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