1170s deaths

French theologian (1100–1179)

German minnesänger, poet and composer

Mistress of King Henry II of England

Contender for the throne of Sweden

12th-century Arab-Sicilian philosopher and politician

Duke of Pomerania

Rahewin was an important German chronicler at the abbey of Freising in Bavaria. He was secretary and chaplain to Otto von Freising; he also continued the work of his master Otto von Freising, Gesta Friderici, books 3 and 4, between 1157 and 1160. Rahewin was also a poet. His style makes use of the cursus tardus in which the stress falls on the third and sixth syllables from the end. He died between 1170 and 1177.

12th-century Margravine consort of Brandenburg

Portuguese warrior

judge/King of Gallura

goldsmith (1100–1173)

High Duchess of Poland, wife of Bolesław IV the Curly