1120s in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry I

Events

• * 25 November – sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel off Barfleur. King Henry I of England's only legitimate son, William Adelin, is among 300 who drown.1121
• * 24 January – Henry I marries Adeliza of Louvain at Windsor Castle.
• * June – Reading Abbey founded by Henry I.
• * Plympton Priory in Devon re-founded as an Augustinian house by William Warelwast, Bishop of Exeter.
• * Foss Dyke scoured.1122
• * Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, established as an Augustinian house.1123
• * 18 February – William de Corbeil enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• * 26 August – first Bishop of Bath consecrated.
• * Louis VI of France supports rebels against English rule in Normandy.
• * St Bartholomew's Hospital in London founded by Rahere.1124
• * Henry I unsuccessfully invades the Kingdom of France, having defeated rebels in Normandy.
• * Christmas – moneyers punished by castration following runaway inflation.1125
• * William of Malmesbury completes his histories of England, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum.1126
• * Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York declared equal.
• * 25 December – Henry I asks his nobles to recognise Empress Matilda as his heir.1127
• * 1 January – English nobles accept Matilda as heir.1128
• * 17 June – the dowager Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to the Count of Anjou, in Le Mans.
• * Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley in Surrey.1129
• * 4 October – Henry of Blois becomes Bishop of Winchester, an office which he will hold until his death in 1171.

Births

• 1120
• * Approximate date – John of Salisbury, bishop and scholar
• 1125
• *Renaud de Courtenay, noble

Deaths

• 1120
• * 25 November – White Ship
• **William Adelin, son of Henry I
• ** Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, Anglo-Norman noble and soldier
• ** Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England
• 1122
• * 20 October – Ralph d'Escures, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1124
• * 15 March – Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester
• 1126
• *Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house
• 1128
• * 5 September – Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham
• 1129
• * January – Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester
• * Symeon of Durham, chronicler