1158 deaths

King of Castile

Austrian medieval chronicler

Queen consort of Portugal

German nobleman

Count of Nantes

Earl of Orkney

Samuel ben Meir (Troyes, c. 1085 – c. 1158), after his death known as the "Rashbam", a Hebrew acronym for RAbbi SHmuel Ben Meir, was a leading French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi".

Tibetan spiritual leader

Wibald (; early 1098 – 19 July 1158) was a 12th-century abbot of Stavelot (Stablo) and Malmedy in present-day Belgium, and abbot of Corvey in Germany. He figured prominently in the court circle of the German kings of his time.

12th-century Provençal rabbi

Roman Catholic archbishop

thumb|Note of Guillaume Postel on the Arabic astronomical manuscript of al-Kharaqī, Muntahā al-idrāk fī taqāsīm al-aflāk ("The Ultimate Grasp of the Divisions of Spheres"). '''Abū Muḥammad 'Abd al-Jabbār al-Kharaqī, also Al-Kharaqī' (1084-1158) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician of the 12th century, born in Kharaq near Merv. He was in the service of Sultan Sanjar at the Persian Court. Al-Kharaqī challenged the astronomical theory of Ptolemy in the Almagest, and established an alternative theory of the spheres, imagining huge material spheres in which the planets moved inside tubes. He

Imam of the Nizari Ismailis

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and saint

Roman Catholic archbishop

1074 – 8 Jan 1159, Princess of Minsk c. 1119–1159

French nobleman

Bishop of Laon

Prince of Galilee