Wikipedia / 1062
Wikipedia / 1062
Year 1062 (MLXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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By place
Europe
Spring Coup of Kaiserswerth: The 11-year-old King Henry IV is abducted, as a result of a conspiracy of German nobles led by Anno II, archbishop of Cologne. Henry's education and training is supervised by Anno, who acts as his regent and is called his magister (his "master" or "teacher"). Empress Agnes of Poitou (Henry's mother) resigns the throne, and Anno with the archbishops Siegfried I and Adalbert of Hamburg takes her place.
Britain
Winter Harold Godwinson leads a successful campaign against King Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. He attacks and captures Rhuddlan Castle in northern Wales, but Gruffydd manages to escape.
Africa
The Almoravids overrun modern-day Morocco, and establish an intercontinental kingdom, stretching from Spain to Senegal.
The Banu Khurasan, a vassal of the Hammdid Dynasty, begin to rule the north of Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia).
Marrakesh is founded by the Almoravids which becomes their capital.
By topic
Religion
Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict, is founded in Affligem (modern Belgium).
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Births
Bjørn Svendsen, Danish nobleman (approximate date)
Fujiwara no Moromichi, Japanese nobleman (d. 1099)
Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine statesman (d. 1137)
Nicephorus Komnenos, Byzantine aristocrat
Deaths
January 27 Adelaide of Hungary, German duchess
February 2 Atenulf I, Lombard nobleman
March 9 Herbert II, French nobleman
Abe no Sadato, Japanese nobleman
Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo, Japanese nobleman
Abu Mansur Fulad Sutun, Buyid emir of Fars
Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya (b. 1008)
Al-Quda'i, Fatimid preacher and historian
Emma of Provence, French noblewoman
Geoffrey I, French nobleman (approximate date)
Mu'izz al-Dawla Thimal, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
Nissim ben Jacob, Tunisian Jewish rabbi (b. 990)
William IV, count of Weimar and Orlamünde
Ibn al-Timnah, Emir of Syracuse
References