Year 1039 (MXXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Europe

• June 4 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, ("the Elder") dies of gout in Utrecht after a 12-year reign. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old son, Henry III ("the Black"), who also becomes king of Italy and Burgundy.

• Duke Casimir I the Restorer returns to Poland, and makes great efforts to rebuild the war-ruined country. He establishes his residence at Kraków (which becomes Poland's capital until 1596).

• The Banu Tujib clan is deposed by Al-Mustain I, who starts the Banu Hud (Huddid dynasty), which rules over the Taifa of Zaragoza for almost a century.

By topic

Religion

• The Abbey of Bec is founded at Le Bec-Hellouin in Normandy (modern France).</onlyinclude>

Births

• Helibo, Chinese nobleman and chieftain (d. 1092)

• Minamoto no Yoshiie, Japanese samurai (d. 1106)

• Robert de Stafford, Norman nobleman (approximate date)

• Sancho IV, king of Pamplona (approximate date)

• Su Zhe, Chinese politician and historian (d. 1112)

• Vseslav of Polotsk, Kievan prince (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 10 Odo of Gascony (or Eudes), French nobleman

• April 16 William III, count of Weimar and Eichsfeld

• May 27 Dirk III (or Theodoric), count of Holland

• June 4 Conrad II ("the Elder"), Holy Roman Emperor

• July 20 Conrad II ("the Younger"), duke of Carinthia

• September 19 Fujiwara no Genshi, empress of Japan (b. 1016)

• November 4 Hugh of Chalon, French bishop

• November 29 Adalbero, German nobleman

• Abu Nasr Mushkan, Persian statesman (or 1040)

• Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig, prince of Gwynedd

• Nathar Shah, Tamil mystic and preacher (b. 969)

• Regimbald, German abbot and bishop

• Reginar V (or Régnier), French nobleman

• Sebes, Hungarian nobleman

• Sophia I, German princess and abbess (b. 975)

• Unsuri, Persian poet and writer (or 1040)

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