people/1140s

Historian and scholar (1145–1234)

Sunni scholar and hadith master (1146–1203)

Emperor of China from 1189 to 1194

Queen of Navarre from 1134 to 1141

Emperor of Western Liao from 1124 to 1143

Sultan of Kerman

Kuge and vassal of the Kamakura shogunate

12th-century Bishop of London-elect

Chinese poet (1140–1207)

12th-century Slave and murderer

12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and earl

Medieval king of the principality of Dakkinadesa in Sri Lanka

5th Almoravid king (r. 1106–1143)

Duke of Burgundy from 1162 to 1192

12th-century Bishop of Coventry

Lord of Armenian Cilicia from c. 1130 to 1137

King of Burma from 1171 to 1174

Anglo-French magnate (1147–1181)

Scribe

Ruler of Damascus from 1140 to 1149

Irish noble

12th-century Italian chronicler

Medieval Russian saint (d. 1147)

12th-century Bishop of St David's

Scottish knight templar

Count of Altena

12th-century Roman Catholic archbishop

Arab Andalusian Sufi and philosopher

12th-century Japanese military leader

Castilian nobleman (died 1146)

King of Alba from 1153 to 1165

Byzantine empress from 1161 to 1180

Head of the Catholic Church from 1130 to 1143

Japanese buddhist monk (1141–1215)

Jin dynasty prince, general and official (died 1148)

Andalusian Arab traveller and poet (1145–1217)

King of Norway from 1157 to 1162

Catholic saint from Tuscany (1148–1181)