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5th of January 1125. Bishop Roger of Salisbury completed his task of punishing 94 minters judged guilty of debasing the royal currency. They were rounded up over Christmas and have been blinded and castrated on the orders of King Henry.

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Christmas 1124. England: Moneyers punished by castration following runaway inflation. "At Christmas 1124 the king summoned the moneyers to him at Winchester. By twelfth night they were all castrated and had their right hands amputated as punishment for false dealing."

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21st of December 1124. 1124 papal election: Lamberto Scannabecchi is elected Pope after Teobaldo Boccapecci is rejected. Scannabecchi takes the name Pope Honorius II.

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16 Dec 1124. 1124 papal election: Teobaldo Boccapecci is elected the new Pope, three days after the death of Pope Callixtus II. Boccapecci takes the name Celestine II, but the Frangipani family attacks the investment ceremony and Boccapecci is injured. He resigns before being enthroned.

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13th of December 1124. Death of Pope Callixtus II, Burgundian-born Catholic religious leader (b. c. 1065). Pope Calixtus II dies in Rome and is buried in the Lateran Basilica.

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9th of December 1124. Raymond du Puy of France formally succeeds Gerard as the second Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller and issues his first official act.

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19th of November 1124. Archbishop Adelbert I of Mainz acknowledges ownership by Odo of the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims, as well as the churches around Kusel, of the Church of Kusel, Altenglan, Konken and Pfeffelbach.

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5th of November 1124. Gutierre Fernández de Castro and his wife Toda receive half of the lands owned by her grandmother, Teresa, at Quintanilla Rodano, Quintana Fortuno and Sotopalacios.

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1st of November 1124. Beltrán de Risnel confirms two charters issued by King Alfonso VII during the reign of Queen Urraca of León and Castile.

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[Annals of Loch Cé](https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100010A/index.html)

>Toirfhinn Mac Turcuill, principal young lord of the Foreigners of Erinn, subita morte periit.

[Annals of Ulster](https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100001A/index.html)

>Torfind son of Torcaill, chief óicthigern of the foreigners of Ireland, died a sudden death.

Probably some relative of the Meic Torcaill who were a prominent Norse [family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meic_Torcaill) in Dublin towards the end of the twelfth century, but it's not clear how.

<div class="md"><p><a href="https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100010A/index.html">Annals of Loch Cé</a></p>

<blockquote>
<p>Toirfhinn Mac Turcuill, principal young lord of the Foreigners of Erinn, subita morte periit.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100001A/index.html">Annals of Ulster</a></p>

<blockquote>
<p>Torfind son of Torcaill, chief óicthigern of the foreigners of Ireland, died a sudden death.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Probably some relative of the Meic Torcaill who were a prominent Norse <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meic_Torcaill">family</a> in Dublin towards the end of the twelfth century, but it&#39;s not clear how.</p>
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1124, Ireland. Toirfhinn Mac Turcuill, young lord of the Foreigners dies suddenly.

6th of October 1124. The siege of Aleppo by Baldwin II of Jerusalem and his allies begins. The fortress surrenders after less than four months, on January 25.

30th of September 1124. The consecration of the abbey church of Orval, in the current Belgian province of Luxembourg, took place. The new church, dedicated to Notre-Dame, was inaugurated by the Bishop of Verdun, Henri de Blois.

6th of September 1124. Baldwin II of Jerusalem is forbidden by Patriarch Bernard of Antioch to cede fortresses to Timurtash.

September 1124. After agreeing to help Timurtash fight a rival, the Amir Dubays bin Sadaqa, as a condition of being released, King Baldwin II of Jerusalem enters into an alliance with Dubays and promises him parts of the territory of Aleppo.

29th of August 1124. Baldwin II of Jerusalem is released by Timurtash. After negotiations are made, with the Crusaders paying 80,000 dinars and to cede Atarib, Zardana, Azaz and other Antiochene fortresses to Timurtash.

11/8/1124. A solar eclipse takes place over northern Europe, after Sigurd the Crusader, King of Norway, leads the Kalmare ledung, a naval attack on Kalmar, in order to Christianize the region of Småland. A historian later notes that Sigurd's crusade happened in the summer before "the great darkness"

Around 3rd of August 1124. King Louis VI issues the celebrated charter, drafted and written at Saint-Denis, in which he grants the Vexin to the abbey, although he continues to hold it in fief.

7th of July 1124. (June 29 O.S.)(14 Jumada 518 AH) – Tyre falls to the Crusaders.

27th of June or 7th of July 1124. Tyre surrenders to the Franks. Its population is spared. Creation of a Venetian counter in Tyre (Tyre, Lebanon).

15th of June 1124. Foundation of the bishopric of Lubusz (Lebus) in Western Pomerania by the papal legate Egidius (Gilo of Toucy), cardinal-bishop of Tusculum.

6th of June 1124. German missionary Otto of Bamberg carries out the first baptism on his mission to convert residents of the Duchy of Pomerania (now in Poland) to Christianity, carrying out a baptism in Pyritz (now Pyrzyce).

22nd of May 1124. Death of Wiprecht of Groitzsch, died of burns received during a fire. Lothair of Supplinburg invests Albert the Bear as the Margrave of Lusatia (Ostmark).

6th of May 1124. Balak ibn Bahram of the Ortoqid dynasty in Aleppo, is killed by an arrow in a fight against a rebellious Turkmen governor before Manbij, which has allied itself with crusaders under Joscelin I of Edessa. (The siege of Manbij. Belek's head is being brandished by the besiegers.)

27th of April 1124. David I succeeded Alexander I, to become King of Scotland.

23rd of April 1124. Death: King Alexander I of Scotland (b. c. 1078).

Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester: Waleran's remaining castles continued to resist until 16 April 1124 when Waleran was forced by the king to order his seneschal Morin du Pin to surrender them.

26th of March 1124. Henry I of England's forces defeat Norman rebels at the Battle of Bourgthéroulde. Victorious over Count Galéran IV of Meulan in Bourgtheroulde (Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester), Henry seizes Vexin.

15th of February 1124. The Siege of Tyre began. The Venetian fleet blockaded Tyre by sea while the Frankish army besieged the city again. The city was quickly running out of drinking water.

12th of December 1123. At Sankt Veit an der Glan, Engelbert II of the House of Sponheim becomes the new Duke of Carinthia and the Margrave of Verona (an area encompassing parts of Austria, Slovenia and Italy) upon the death of his older brother Henry IV.

1123. Louis VI of France supports rebels against English rule in Normandy.

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13th of December 1124. Death of Pope Callixtus II, Burgundian-born Catholic religious leader (b. c. 1065). Pope Calixtus II dies in Rome and is buried in the Lateran Basilica.

1124, Ireland. Toirfhinn Mac Turcuill, young lord of the Foreigners dies suddenly.

6th of May 1124. Balak ibn Bahram of the Ortoqid dynasty in Aleppo, is killed by an arrow in a fight against a rebellious Turkmen governor before Manbij, which has allied itself with crusaders under Joscelin I of Edessa. (The siege of Manbij. Belek's head is being brandished by the besiegers.)

23rd of April 1124. Death: King Alexander I of Scotland (b. c. 1078).