Wikipedia / 1112
Wikipedia / 1112
Year 1112 (MCXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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By place
Byzantine Empire
Spring Malik Shah, Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate of Rum, begins incursions into Anatolia. He marches on Philadelphia with his army, but is halted by the Byzantines under Gabras, governor of the Theme of Chaldia.
Levant
Spring Seljuk forces under Toghtekin, Turkic governor of Damascus, intervene at Tyre, and force King Baldwin I of Jerusalem to raise the siege.
April 10 The Crusaders fight their way back to Acre (modern Israel).
Europe
February 3 Ramon Berenguer III ("the Great"), count of Barcelona, obtains the county of Provence through his marriage to the heiress, Douce I. Ramon's dominion stretches as far east as Nice (modern France).
May 22 Henry, Count of Portugal, dies from wounds received during a siege at Astorga. He is succeeded by his 3-year-old son Afonso I, but his mother Theresa desires to rule Portugal alone and becomes regent.
Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland has his half-brother Zbigniew blinded and thrown into a dungeon in Tyniec Abbey. Archbishop Martin I excommunicates Bolesław for committing this terrible crime.
Otto ("the Rich"), count of Ballenstedt, is appointed duke of Saxony by Emperor Henry V, but is later stripped of his title.
The Margraviate of Baden is founded by Herman II.
By topic
Literature
Gallus Anonymus, Polish chronicler and historian, begins to write Gesta principum Polonorum, to Bolesław III.
Religion
Easter The citizens of Laon in France, having proclaimed a commune, murder Bishop Waldric in his cathedral.</onlyinclude>
Births
February 3 Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir, was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir and Ismah.
Henry IV ("the Blind"), count of Luxembourg (d. 1196)
Mahaut of Albon, countess of Savoy (d. 1148)
Sasaki Hideyoshi, Japanese samurai (d. 1184)
Sibylla of Anjou, countess of Flanders (d. 1165)
Deaths
Easter Waldric, English Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Laon, murdered (b. 1050)
October 5 Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
October 12 Kogh Vasil ("the Robber"), Armenian ruler
November 3 Anna Vsevolodovna, Kievan princess
Baldric of Noyon, bishop of Tournai (b. 1099)
Bertrand of Tripoli, count of Toulouse and Tripoli
Fakhr-un-Nisa, Arab scholar and calligrapher
Kyansittha, king of the Pagan Empire (or 1113)
Maud of Apulia, Norman noblewoman (b. c.1060)
See also
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