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The English princes Richard and Geoffrey lead a rebellion against their father, Henry II, with support from Eleanor of Aquitaine, but the House of Commons gives hearty support to the king (see 1172). His vassal Hugh de Lacy, 1st lord of Meath, fights for Henry in Normandy, defending Verneuil (see 1174).
Hungary's Stefan III dies after a 12-year reign and is succeeded by Belá III, who has been educated at Constantinople. The new king will reign until his death in 1196, introducing Byzantine customs and establishing close ties with France (his first wife will be Anne of Châtillon, and after her death he will marry the sister of France's Philippe II Augustus).
The brother of Poland's late Boleslav IV begins a 4-year reign, but the duke of Greater Poland Mieszko III is so brutal and despotic that he will arouse the wrath of the country's magnates (see 1177).
The city of Ghazna in west-central Afghanistan falls to the nephews of the late Ala-ud-Din, who sacked and burned it in 1149. Ghiyas-ud-Din and his younger brother Muizz-ud-Din retake Ghazna from the Oguz Turkmen nomads who ousted Ala-ud-Din and in the next 29 years will raise the kingdom of Ghur to its height, extending Ghiyas-ud-Din's rule over most of Afghanistan, eastern Persia, and what later will be Turkmenistan (see 1176).
The Waldensian movement begins at Lyons, where local merchant Peter Waldo renounces the world, gives away all his goods and property, and devotes himself to preaching voluntary poverty (see 1179).
Hungary's new king Béla III will invite Cistercian and Premonstratensian monks to his realm, and they will introduce advanced agricultural methods.
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