1177 deaths

Duke of Austria from 1156 to 1177

the Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, the eldest son of William V, Marquess of Montferrat and Judith of Babenberg

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Elected a rival King of Norway during the Norwegian Civil War (1157–1177)

Bohemian noble (1134–1177)

Japanese waka poet and poetry scholar

Regent

English nobleman

Anglo-Norman nobleman

Gümüshtekin, also known as Gumushtekin (died September 1177), was a eunuch who held high offices in the Zengids' empire. Nur ad-Din, of Aleppo, appointed him to be his lieutenant in Mosul in Iraq. After Nur ad-Din died in 1174, Gümüshtekin assumed the guardianship for Nur ad-Din's underage son, as-Salih Ismail al-Malik and took his ward from Damascus to Aleppo. He made an alliance with as-Salih's cousin Sayf al-Din Ghazi II of Mosul against Ibn al-Muqaddam who had taken control of Damascus. Ibn al-Muqaddam sought assistance from the Ayubbid ruler of Egypt, Saladin, and surrendered the city to

Medieval French composer

12th-century Castilian nobleman, member of the House of Lara, son of Pedro González de Lara.

Priest, writer and translator from Liège