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Events Knights Templar founded Baldwin of Le Bourg succeeds his cousin Baldwin I as king of Jerusalem John II Comnenus succeeds Alexius I as Byzantine emperor Gelasius II succeeds Paschal II as pope Births December 21 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese general Deaths January 21 - Pope Paschal II June 5 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester August 15 - Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (b. 1048) Baldwin, king of Jerusalem Florence of Worcester, English chronicler
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