1140

Events 

 By area 

 Europe 
 December 21 – Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg, the stronghold of Welfs.
 Henry Jasomirgott is made count palatine of the Rhine.
 The town of Lanark in Scotland is made a Royal Burgh by David I of Scotland.
 Marburg becomes a town.
 The Assizes of Ariano are enacted by Roger II of Sicily.
 Roger II of Sicily places the practice of medicine under royal control.

 By topic 

 Religion 
 June 3 – Pierre Abelard is condemned for heresy by a church court in Sens, France.
 September 8 – Sephardi Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi, having completed the Kuzari, arrives in Alexandria on a pilgrimage to Palestine.
 The first Cistercian monastery in Spain is founded in Fitero. The order enjoys a rapid expansion in the region in the following 15 years.
 Camaldolite monk Gratian founds the science of Canon law with the publication of the Decretum Gratiani.

 Births 
 May 28 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
 Minamoto no Yoshihira, Japanese warrior (d. 1160)

 Deaths 
 January 12 – Louis I, Landgrave of Thuringia
 February 6 – Thurstan, Archbishop of York
 February 14 
 Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia
 Leo I, Prince of Armenia
 November 15 – Adelaide of Hungary, Duchess of Bohemia
 date unknown &ndahs; Kitti Sri Megha, Sri Lankan ruler

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