Timeline September 1180

Events in September 1180 3

• 1118 – 1180 Manuel I Komnenos (1118-1180) Died 24 September 1180, aged 61 Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor since 1143, died in Constantinople after a reign marked by ambitious campaigns to restore Byzantine power in Italy, the Balkans, and the Crusader states. His defeat at Myriokephalon in 1176 had weakened imperial authority in Anatolia. He was succeeded by his young son Alexios II Komnenos.
• 1120 – 1180 Louis VII of France (1120-1180) Died 18 September 1180, aged 60 Louis VII, King of France since 1137, died at Paris after a long illness. His reign saw the loss of Aquitaine through his divorce from Eleanor of Aquitaine and years of rivalry with the Angevin kings of England. He was succeeded by his son Philip II Augustus, who had already been crowned co-king the previous year.
• 1180 Alexios II Komnenos becomes Byzantine Emperor Crowned at age eleven on his father's death Alexios II Komnenos succeeded his father Manuel I as Byzantine Emperor on 24 September 1180, under the regency of his mother Maria of Antioch. The weak regency soon provoked unrest that his cousin Andronikos I Komnenos would exploit to seize the throne. His short reign marked the beginning of a period of Byzantine instability.