Year 1058 (MLVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Europe

• March 17 King Lulach ("the Unfortunate") of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and rival Malcolm III ("Canmore") who becomes king of the Scots.

• September 20 Empress Agnes de Poitou and King Andrew I ("the White") of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border zone in Burgenland (modern Austria).

• 4-year-old Judith of Swabia, youngest daughter of the late Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, is engaged to Prince Solomon of Hungary at Regensburg.

• Norman conquest of southern Italy: Norman forces under Richard Drengot besiege and capture Capua. He takes the princely title from Prince Landulf VIII.

• Bolesław II the Generous, eldest son of Casimir I the Restorer, succeeds his father after his death in Poznań and becomes duke of Poland.

Africa

• The Almoravidss conquer the Barghawata, a group of Berber tribes, who have established an independent state in modern-day Morocco.

By topic

Religion

• Spring Pope Stephen IX pronounces on the authenticity of the relics of Mary Magdalene at Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy, making it a major centre of pilgrimage.

• March 29 Stephen IX dies of a severe illness after a pontificate of 7 months at Florence. He is succeeded by Nicholas II who will be installed the following year.

• November 6 Byzantine Emperor Isaac I Komnenos deposes Michael I Cerularius, patriarch of Constantinople, and has him exiled to Prokonnessos (until 1059).

• Ealdred, archbishop of York, becomes the first English bishop to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.</onlyinclude>

Births

• Al-Ghazali, Persian theologian and jurist (approximate date)

• Ibn Bassam, Andalusian poet and historian (d. 1147)

• Synadene, queen consort of Hungary (approximate date)

• Theodora Anna Doukaina Selvo, Venetian dogaressa (d. 1083)

• Wynebald de Ballon, Norman nobleman (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 1 Ermesinde, countess and regent of Barcelona

• March 17 Lulach ("the Unfortunate"), king of Scotland

• March 29 Stephen IX, pope of the Catholic Church

• August 2 Judith of Schweinfurt, duchess of Bohemia

• November 28 Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland (b. 1016)

• Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu, Syrian physician (b. 980)

• Abu Muhammad al-Yazuri, vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate

• Ælfwold II, bishop of Sherborne (approximate date)

• Al-Mawardi, Abbasid jurist and diplomat (b. 972)

• Boite mac Cináeda (or Bodhe), Scottish prince

• Centule IV Gaston ("the Old"), viscount of Béarn

• Egbert of Fulda, German Benedictine abbot

• Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, Persian poet and writer

• Flaithem Mac Mael Gaimrid, Irish poet and Chief Ollam

• Grigor Magistros, Armenian prince and governor

• Ilduara Mendes, countess and regent of Portugal

• Theophanu, abbess of Essen and Gerresheim

• William VII ("the Bold"), duke of Aquitaine (b. 1023)

References