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1100–1199(A.D.)World History Chartres Cathedral Tasha Vincent 1100–1300 Construction of Cathedral at Chartres, France. 1144 Second Crusade begins. c. 1150 Angkor Watis completed. 1150–1167 Universities of Paris and Oxford founded in France and England. 1162 Thomas á Becketnamed Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered by Henry II's men(1170).Troubadours (wandering minstrels) glorify romantic concepts of feudalism. 1169 Ibn-Rushd begins translating Aristotle's works. 1189 Richard I (“the Lionhearted”) succeeds Henry II in England, killed in France(1199),succeeded by King John. Third Crusade.