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Total Solar Eclipse of 1133 August 02
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A very large solar eclipse occurred on the 2nd of August, A.D. 1133, the year in which Henry I. left England and passed over into Normandy for the last time. William of Malmesbury states that this was on the day after Lammas whilst the King was crossing the Channel on his last voyage; notwithstanding which some later historians erroneously place it at the time of the King's death, two years later.
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The last total solar eclipse at Jerusalem took place on  August 2, 1133

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King Henry's Eclipse

A total solar eclipse was recorded in the Peterborough Chronicle

A.D. 1135. In this year went the King Henry over sea at the Lammas; and the next day, as he lay asleep on ship, the day darkened over all lands, and the sun was all as it were a three night old moon, and the stars about him at midday. Men were very much astonished and terrified, and said that a great event should come hereafter. So it did; for that same year was the king dead, the next day after St. Andrew's mass-day, in Normandy.
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