12th-century deaths

12th century French poet and trouvère

thumb|A memorial to Wace was set up in his native island of Jerseythumb|Wace presents his Roman de Rou to Henry II in this illustration from 1824 Wace ( 1110 – after 1174), sometimes referred to as Robert Wace, was a Medieval Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.

12th-century chronicler of Polish history

medical practitioner and writer

Kannada poet

thumb|A miniature portrait of Marcabru beside his vida in a 13th-century chansonnier. Marcabru (; fl. 1130–1150) is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known. There is no certain information about him; the two vidas attached to his poems tell different stories, and both are evidently built on hints in the poems; not on independent information.

Abū al-Fath Abd al-Rahman Mansūr al-Khāzini or simply al-Khāzini (; flourished 1115–1130) was an Iranian astronomer, mechanician and physicist of Byzantine Greek origin who lived during the Seljuk Empire. His astronomical tables, written under the patronage of Sultan Sanjar ('''', 1115), are considered to be one of the major works in mathematical astronomy of the medieval period. He is considered to have been one of the greatest scientists of his era, among the greatest makers of scientific instruments of any time, and as "the physicist of all physicists".

historian of the First Crusade

Yennenga (born 11th-15th century) was a legendary princess, considered the mother of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso. She was a famous warrior within the Kingdom of Dagbon, now in present day Ghana. The founder of the Kingdom of Dagbon was her father, Nedega. Nedega refused to let Yennenga marry, resulting in her leaving the kingdom. On the run with her horse, she met a young hunter, Rialé with whom she had a child called Ouedraogo. Ouedraogo is a famous last name in Burkina Faso and means "male horse" in honour of the horse which led the princess to Rialé. Yennenga or her son Ouedraogo are c

thumb|"Ahmad Sanjar|Sultan Sanjar surprises his beloved entertaining Mahsati in his tent". Folio from the Majalis al-ushshaq, dated October/November 1552 Mahsati () was a medieval Persian female poet who was reportedly one of the first poets to compose ''ruba'iyat'' (quatrains) in her native language.

Queen consort of Sweden

220px|right|thumb|First page of the mid-15th century Lübeck manuscript of the Chronica slavorum

Tatikios or Taticius (, c. 1048 – died after 1110) was an Eastern Roman general of Turkish origin during the reign of Alexios I Komnenos. His name is also rendered as Tetigus, Tatizius, Tatitius, Tatic, or Tetig.

thumb|right|192px| Irnerius elucidates the Justinian Code by [[Luigi Serra ]]

Byzantine nobleman, son of Emperor John II Komnenos

Queen of Jerusalem

Scottish prince

daughter of Philip I of France

Daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Princess of Antioch (12th century)

Byzantine poet

Spanish writer, astronomer

crusader

emperor of the Liao Dynasty

11th/12th-century Andalusian Jewish philosopher, linguist and poet

Ruler of Cilician Armenia

Norwegian queen consort

Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physician

Queen of Jerusalem from 1100 to 1105

12th-century author

Grand Prince of Serbia

Byzantine general, father of Alexios III and Isaac II

first ruler of the castle of Wirtemberg 1083-1110

12th-century Byzantine noblewoman

Byzantine aristocrat

Patriarch of Constantinople

Queen of Denmark

French noble

French politician

sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire

politician

English noble

11th-century monk and historian

Japanese poet

crusader

12th century Italian monk, librarian and chronicler

Italian noble, Margravinne of Montferrat

Italian crusader

Ambroise, sometimes Ambroise of Normandy, (flourished ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called '''', which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of King Richard I of England as a crusader.

Byzantine admiral

Late 11th/early 12th century Byzantine general

legendary character of the 12th century

Queen of Norway

Ancient Rus Orthodox Metropolitan bishop

Byzantine aristocrat

queen

Serbian ruler

medieval Swedish princess

Byzantine general

Duke of Głogów

Byzantine prefect