List of Heads of State in 1179

List of Heads of State in 1178 - 1179 - List of Heads of State in 1180 - List of Heads of State by year

Asia

Abbasid Caliphate - Al Mustadi Biamrillah , Caliph ( 1170 - 1180 )
Ayyubids -
- Turan Shah I Ibn Ayyub , Emir of Yemen ( 1174 - 1182 )
- Al-Muzaffar Umar , Emir of Hama ( 1179 - 1191 )
- Muhammad ibn Shirkuh , Emir of Homs ( 1179 - 1186 )
Anatolian Beiliks -
- Artukids -
  - Muhammad ibn Kara-Arslan , emir (Hisn-Kaif) ( 1167 - 1185 )
  - Ile-Ghazi II Qutb , emir (Mardin) ( 1176 - 1184 )
- Inalogullary - Mahmoud , Emir ( 1142 - 1183 )
- Mengjuks (Mengucheguides) - Fahr ad-din Bahram Shah , Bey ( 1155 - 1218 )
- Saltukids - Nasir ad-din Muhammad , emir ( 1168 - 1191 )
- Shah Armenids - Sukman II Nasir ad-din , emir ( 1128 - 1185 )
Principality of Antioch - Boemund III , Prince ( 1163 - 1201 )
East Karakhanid Khanate -
- Muhammad III Bogra Khan , Khan (in Kashgar) ( 1156 - 1180 )
- Ahmad Kadir Khan , Khan (in Uzkend) ( 1178 - 1210 )
The Gaznevid state - Khosrov Malik , Sultan ( 1160 - 1186 )
The kingdom of Georgia - George III , king ( 1156 - 1184 )
Gurids - Guillas ud-Din , Sultan ( 1163 - 1202 )
- Shams ud-Din , Malik (in the Bamiyan) ( 1163 - 1192 )
Dayviet - Li Khao Tong , Emperor ( 1175 - 1210 )
Dali (Dazhong) - Duan Zhixing , King ( 1171 - 1200 )
West Karakhanid Khanate - Ibrahim III Bogra Khan , Khan ( 1178 - 1201 )
Kingdom of Jerusalem - Baldwin IV , King ( 1174 - 1185 )
Ildehyzides - Muhammad Jahan Pahlavan , the great Atabek ( 1175 - 1186 )
India -
- Venad - Vira Udaya Martanda Varma , Maharaja ( 1173 - 1192 )
- Eastern Ganges - Anangabhima Virgo II , king ( 1178 - 1198 )
- Western Chalukya - Jagadekamalla III , Maharaja ( 1164 - 1183 )
- Kakatiya - Pratarapudra I , Raja ( 1158 - 1195 )
- Kalachuri - Sankama , Raja ( 1176 - 1180 )
- Kachari - Surajit , king (c. 1155 - c. 1180 )
- Pandya - Yatavarman Srivallaban , Raja ( 1175 - 1180 )
- Paramara - Vindhyavarman , Maharaja ( 1160 - 1193 )
- Sena -
  - Ballala Sen , Raja ( 1159 - 1179 )
  - Lakshmana Sen , Raja ( 1179 - 1206 )
- Solanki - Bhimadeva II Bholo , Raja ( 1178 - 1242 )
- Hoysala - Vira Ballalladeva II , Permanadi ( 1173 - 1187 )
- Chandela - Paramardi , Raja ( 1165 - 1203 )
- Chola - Culottunga Chola III , Maharaja ( 1178 - 1218 )
- The Yadavas (Seunades) - Bhillama V , Maharaja ( 1173 - 1192 )
Iran -
- Bavandi - Ardashir I , ispahbad ( 1173 - 1205 )
- Khazaraspids - Abu Tahir ibn Muhammad , atabek ( 1148 - 1203 )
Kedah -
- Mujafar Shah I , Sultan ( 1136 - 1179 )
- Mazzam Shah , Sultan ( 1179 - 1201 )
Kingdom of Cilicia - Ruben III , Prince ( 1175 - 1187 )
China -
- Empire Song - Xiao-zong (Zhao Shen) , emperor ( 1162 - 1189 )
- Western Xia - Ren Zong (Li Renxiao), Emperor ( 1139 - 1193 )
- Karakite Khanate (Western Liao) - Eluy Zhulhu , gurkhan ( 1177 - 1213 )
- Jin - Wanyan Ulu (Shi-zong) , Emperor ( 1161 - 1189 )
Khmer Empire (Cambujades) - Jayavarman VII , Emperor ( 1178 - 1218 )
Koniysky (Rumsky) Sultanate - Kylych-Arslan II , Sultan ( 1156 - 1192 )
Korea (Koryo) - Myeongjong , Van ( 1170 - 1197 )
Lemro -
- Kaneinoc , king ( 1176 - 1179 )
- Salinkabo king ( 1179 - 1180 )
Maldives - Muti , Sultan ( 1166 - 1185 )
Pagan - Situ II , king ( 1174 - 1211 )
Polonnaruwa - Parakramabahu I , king ( 1153 - 1186 )
Seljuk Empire -
- Iraqi Sultanate - Torgul III , Sultan ( 1176 - 1194 )
- Kerman Sultanate - Turan Shah II , Sultan ( 1176 - 1183 )
- As-Salih Ismail al-Malik , Atabek Aleppo ( 1174 - 1181 )
- Gazi II Saif ad-Din , Emir of Mosul ( 1170 - 1180 )
Sunda - Guru of Darmasiks , Maharaja ( 1175 - 1297 )
County Tripoli - Raimund III , Count ( 1152 - 1187 )
Tampa - Jaya Indravarman IV , Prince ( 1167 - 1190 )
State of Khorezmshahs - Ala ad-Din Tekesh , Khorezmshah ( 1172 - 1200 )
Shirvan - Ahsitan I , Shirvanshah ( 1160 - 1197 )
Japan - Takakura , Emperor ( 1168 - 1180 )

Africa

Ayyubids - Salah ad-Din , Sultan of Egypt and Syria ( 1174 - 1193 )
Almohad - Abu Yakub Yusuf , Caliph ( 1163 - 1184 )
Ghana - Birama King ( 1160 - 1180 )
Gao - Yasabay , Dyah (c. 1170 - c. 1190 )
Kanem - Bikuru , Mai ( 1176 - 1193 )
Kilwa - Suleiman ibn al-Hasan ibn Dawood , Sultan ( 1170 - 1189 )
Nri - Buife , Eze ( 1159 - 1259 )
Ethiopia - Naakueto Laab , Emperor ( 1159 - 1207 )

Europe

England - Henry II Plantagenet , King ( 1154 - 1189 )
Hungary - Bela III , king ( 1172 - 1196 )
Republic of Venice - Orio Mastropietro , Doge ( 1178 - 1192 )
Byzantine Empire - Manuel I Comnenus , Emperor ( 1143 - 1180 )
Denmark - Waldemar I the Great , King ( 1157 - 1182 )
Ireland - Ruidry Wa Conhobair , High King ( 1166 - 1183 )
- Isleh - Mael Sechneill poppy Muirhertach poppy Lochline , king ( 1177 - 1185 )
- Desmond - Diarmight More McCarthy , King ( 1143 - 1175 , 1176 - 1185 )
- Connaught - Ruidry Wa Conhobyr King ( 1156 - 1183 )
- Ulster - Ruidry Mac Con Ulad Mac Duynne Sleibe , King ( 1172 - 1201 )
- Thomond - Domnall Mor poppy Toyrdelbeig , king ( 1168 - 1194 )
Spain -
- Ampurias - Pons III , Count (c. 1173 - c. 1200 )
- Aragon - Alfonso II the Chaste , King ( 1164 - 1196 )
- Castile - Alfonso VIII , King ( 1158 - 1214 )
- Leon - Ferdinand II , King of Leon ( 1157 - 1188 )
- Mallorca (Taifa) - Ishaq , Emir ( 1156 - 1183 )
- Navarra - Sancho VI , King ( 1150 - 1194 )
- Upper Palyars - Arthau (Artaldo) IV , Count (c. 1167 - c. 1182 )
- Lower Paliars - Valencia , Countess ( 1177 - 1182 )
- Provence - Raimund Berenguer III , Earl ( 1173 - 1181 )
- Urhel - Ermengol VII , Count ( 1154 - 1184 )
Kievan Rus (Old Russian State) - Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich , Grand Duke of Kiev ( 1173 , 1176 - 1180 , 1181 - 1194 )
- Principality of Belgorod - Rurik Rostislavich , prince ( 1171 - 1189 )
- Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal - Vsevolod Yuryevich The Big Nest , Grand Duke Vladimir ( 1176 - 1212 )
- Principality of Volyn - Roman Mstislavich , prince ( 1170 - 1188 , 1188 - 1199 )
- Principality of Galich - Yaroslav Vladimirovich Osmomysl , prince ( 1153 - 1187 )
- Principality of Gorodno - Mstislav Vsevolodovich , prince ( 1170 - c. 1183 )
- Principality of Kursk - Vsevolod Svyatoslavich , prince ( 1164 - 1196 )
- Principality of Lutsk - Yaroslav Izyaslavich , prince ( 1154 - 1180 )
- Principality of Murom - Vladimir Yurievich , Prince ( 1174 - 1203 )
- Novgorod-Seversky principality - Oleg Svyatoslavich , prince ( 1164 - 1180 )
- Principality of Novgorod -
  - Roman Rostislavich , prince ( 1178 - 1179 )
  - Mstislav Rostislavich the Brave , Prince ( 1179 - 1180 )
- Principality of Ovruch - Rurik Rostislavich , prince ( 1168 - 1194 )
- Pereyaslav principality - Vladimir Glebovich , prince ( 1169 - 1187 )
- Principality of Polotsk - Vseslav Vasilkovich , prince ( 1162 - 1167 , 1167 - 1180 )
  - Principality of Vitebsk - Bryachislav Vasilkovich , prince ( 1168 - 1175 , 1178 - 1181 )
  - The Principality of Drutsk - Gleb Rogvolodovich , Prince ( 1144 - 1151 , 1159 - 1162 , c. 1171 - c. 1181 )
- Principality of Pskov - Mstislav Romanovich the Old , Prince ( 1178 - 1195 )
- Principality of Ryazan - without a prince ( 1179 - 1180 )
- Principality of Smolensk - Roman Rostislavich , prince ( 1159 - 1171 , 1173 - 1174 , 1176 - 1180 )
- Principality of Turov - Ivan Yurievich , prince ( 1167 - 1190 , 1195 - 1207 )
- Principality of Chernihiv - Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich , Prince ( 1164 - 1180 )
Norway - Magnus V , King ( 1161 - 1184 )
Kingdom islands -
- Dhugal , king of the Islands and Argyll ( 1164 - c. 1200 )
- Angus , King of the Islands and Garmoran ( 1164 - 1210 )
- Ranald , King of the Islands and Kintyre ( 1164 - 1209 )
- Godred II , King of the Isles and Maine ( 1164 - 1187 )
Papal Region -
- Alexander III , pope ( 1159 - 1181 )
- Innocent III , antipope ( 1179 - 1180 )
Poland -
- Principality of Krakow - Casimir II the Just , Prince ( 1177 - 1194 )
- Greater Poland principality - Meshko Stary , prince ( 1138 - 1179 , 1181 - 1202 )
- The Principality of Sandomierz - Casimir II the Just , Prince ( 1173 - 1194 )
- Principality of Silesia -
  - Lower Silesia - Boleslav I Dolgovyazy , prince ( 1173 - 1201 )
  - Principality of Ratsiborzh - Meshko I the Platypod , prince ( 1173 - 1211 )
- Principality of Mazovia - Leszek , Prince ( 1173 - 1186 )
Pomerania -
- Pomerania-Demmin - Casimir I , Prince ( 1156 - 1180 )
- Pomerania-Stettin - Boguslav I , Prince ( 1156 - 1187 )
Pomerelia (Pomerania) - Sambir I , Prince ( 1177 - 1205 )
Portugal - Afonso I the Great , King ( 1139 - 1185 )
Holy Roman Empire - Frederick I Barbarossa , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Germany ( 1155 - 1190 )
- Austria - Leopold V , Duke ( 1177 - 1194 )
- Anhalt - Bernhard I , Earl ( 1170 - 1212 )
- Bavaria - Henry XII Leo , Duke ( 1156 - 1180 )
- Baden - Herman IV , Margrave ( 1160 - 1190 )
- Bar - Henry I , Count ( 1170 - 1190 )
- Berg - Engelbert I , Earl ( 1160 - 1189 )
- Brandenburg - Otton I , Margrave ( 1170 - 1184 )
- Weimar-Orlamunde - Siegfried III , Count ( 1176 - 1206 )
- Upper Lorraine - Simon II , Duke ( 1176 - 1205 )
- Württemberg - Ludwig II , Count ( 1158 - 1181 )
- Geldern - Henry I , Earl ( 1131 - 1182 )
- Holland - Floris III , count ( 1157 - 1190 )
- Holstein - Adolph III , Count ( 1164 - 1203 )
- Carinthia - Herman , Duke ( 1161 - 1181 )
- Kleve - Dietrich III , Count ( 1172 - 1198 )
- Limburg - Henry III , Duke ( 1167 - 1221 )
- Louvain - Gottfried III the Bold , Earl ( 1142 - 1190 )
- Luzhitsky (Saxon East) stamp - Dietrich II , Margrave ( 1156 - 1185 )
- Luxembourg - Henry IV the Blind , Count ( 1136 - 1196 )
- Meissen stamp - Otton II the Rich , Margrave ( 1156 - 1190 )
- Mecklenburg - Heinrich Borwin I , Prince ( 1178 - 1227 )
- Montbeliard - Amadeus , Count ( 1163 - 1195 )
- Montferrat - Wilhelm V the Old , Margrave (c. 1136 - 1191 )
- Namur - Henry I (Henry IV of Luxembourg) , Count ( 1139 - 1189 )
- Nassau - Wallram I , Earl ( 1154 - 1198 )
- Lower Lorraine - Gottfried VII , Duke ( 1142 - 1190 )
- Oldenburg - Moritz I , Earl ( 1167 - 1209 )
- Rhine Palatinate - Konrad , Palatinate ( 1156 - 1195 )
- Saarbrücken - Simon I , Earl ( 1135 - 1182 )
- Savoy - Humbert III , Earl ( 1148 - 1189 )
- Saxony - Heinrich Leo , Duke ( 1142 - 1180 )
- Saluzzo - Manfred II , Margrave ( 1175 - 1215 )
- Spoleto - Raidelulf , Duke ( 1173 - 1183 )
- Tyrol - Bertold , Count ( 1165 - 1180 )
- Thuringia - Ludwig III the Pious , Landgraph ( 1172 - 1190 )
- Zeringen - Bertold IV , Duke ( 1152 - 1186 )
- Czech Republic - Frederick (Bedrich) , Prince ( 1172 - 1173 , 1178 - 1189 )
  - Principality of Brno - Conrad III Ota , Prince ( 1177 - 1189 )
  - Znojemsky principality - Conrad III of Ota , prince (c. 1161 - 1191 )
  - Principality of Olomouc -
    - Wenceslas , Prince ( 1177 - 1179 )
    - Przemysl Otakar , Prince ( 1179 - 1182 )
- Swabia - Frederick VI , Duke ( 1170 - 1191 )
- Schwerin - Gunzelin I , Count (c. 1167 - 1185 )
- Styria (Quarantine mark) - Otakar IV , Margrave ( 1164 - 1180 )
- Hainaut (Gennegau) - Baudouin V , Earl ( 1171 - 1195 )
- Julich - William II , Count ( 1176 - 1207 )
Serbia -
- Duklja - Mikhailo III Voislav , zupan ( 1162 - 1186 )
- Raska - Stephen I of Neman , the Great Zupan ( 1166 - 1196 )
Sicilian Kingdom - William II Good , King ( 1166 - 1189 )
- Taranto - William II the Good , Prince ( 1157 - 1189 )
Wales -
- Gwynedd -
  - David I ap Owine , Prince ( 1170 - 1194 )
  - Rodry II up Owain , Prince ( 1170 - 1195 )
- Deheibart - Rice ap Grifid , King ( 1155 - 1197 )
- Powys Wadogue - Grifid Mylor , King ( 1160 - 1191 )
- Powys Venwinwin - Owain Qiveiliog , King ( 1160 - 1195 )
France - Louis VII , King ( 1137 - 1180 )
- Aquitaine - Alienora , Duchess ( 1137 - 1204 )
  - Armagnac - Bernard IV , Count ( 1160 - 1193 )
- Angouleme -
  - Guillaume VI , Count ( 1140 - 1179 )
  - Vulgrin III , Count ( 1179 - 1181 )
- Anjou - Henry II Plantagenet , Count ( 1151 - 1189 )
- Blois - Thibault V , Count ( 1152 - 1191 )
- Brittany - Constance , Duchess ( 1166 - 1196 )
  - Nantes - Henry II Plantagenet , Earl ( 1158 - 1185 )
  - Rennes - Constance , Countess ( 1166 - 1196 )
- Boulogne - Ida of Boulogne , Countess ( 1173 - 1216 )
- Burgundy (Duchy) - Hugo III , Duke ( 1162 - 1192 )
- Burgundy (county) - Beatrice I , Palatinate ( 1148 - 1184 )
- Vermandois - Philippe of Alsace , Earl ( 1167 - 1191 )
- Macon - Gerot I , Count ( 1155 - 1184 )
- Nevers - Guillaume V , Count ( 1175 - 1181 )
- Normandy - Henry II Plantagenet , Duke ( 1150 - 1189 )
- Auvergne - Guillaume VIII , Count ( 1155 - 1182 )
- Provence - Raimund V Toulouse , Marquis ( 1148 - 1194 )
- Toulouse - Raymond V , Earl ( 1148 - 1194 )
- Flanders - Philip of Alsace , Earl ( 1168 - 1191 )
- Foix - Roger Bernard I , Count ( 1148 - 1188 )
- Chalon - Guillaume II , Count ( 1166 - 1192 )
- Champagne - Henry I , Count ( 1152 - 1181 )
Sweden - Knut I Ericsson , King ( 1167 - 1196 )
Scotland - William I Leo , King ( 1165 - 1214 )

Manuel I Comnenus
1143-1180
Emperor of Byzantium
Frederick I Barbarossa
1155-1190
Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II Plantagenet
1154-1189
King of england
Louis VII
1137-1180
King of france
Afonso I the Great
1139-1185
King of portugal
Salah ad-Din
1174-1193
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Bela III
1172-1196
King of hungary
Sancho VI Wise
1150-1194
King of navarra
Valdemar I the Great
1157-1182
King of Denmark
Ferdinand II
1157-1188
King of leon
Alfonso II the Chaste
1164-1196
King of aragon
George III
1156-1184
King of Georgia
Gillas ud-din
1163-1202
Sultan Guridov
Wilhelm I Leo
1165-1214
King of scotland
Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich
1176-1180, 1181-1194
Grand Duke of Kiev
Knut I Ericsson
1167-1196
King of sweden
Xiao Zong
1162-1189
Emperor of China
Vsevolod Yuryevich Big Nest
1176-1212
Grand Duke Vladimir
Alfonso VIII
1158-1214
King of Castile
William II the Good
1166-1189
King of sicily
Takakura
1168-1180
Emperor of Japan
Jayavarman VII
1178-1218
Emperor of the Khmer Empire
Stefan Nemanja
1166-1196
Great Zhupan Raski
Casimir II the Fair
1177-1194
Prince Krakowski
Friedrich (Bedrich)
1172-1173, 1178-1189
Prince of the Czech Republic
Floris III
1157-1190
Count of Holland
Orio Mastropietro
1178-1192
Doge of Venice
Alexander III
1159-1181
Pope

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