1058

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

Events

By place

Europe

• March 17 – King Lulach (the Unfortunate) of Scotland is killed in battle at Lumphanan against his cousin and rival Malcolm III (Canmore) who becomes "king of the Scots".^[1]
• Agnes de Poitou and King Andrew I (the White) of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border zone in Burgenland (modern Austria
  ).
• The 4-year-old Judith of Swabia, the youngest daughter of the late Emperor Henry III (the Black), 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.
• Poland.^[2]

• The Almoravids conquer the Berghouata, 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 – 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.

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^[1]
• March 29 – Stephen IX, pope of the Catholic Church
• August 2 – Judith of Schweinfurt, duchess of Bohemia
• November 28 – Casimir I, duke of Poland (b. 1016)
• Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu, Syrian physician (b. 940
  )
• Abu Muhammad al-Yazuri, vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate
• Ælfwold II, bishop of Sherborne
  (approximate date)
• jurist and diplomat (b. 972
  )
• Boite mac Cináeda (or Bodhe), Scottish prince
• Centule IV Gaston (the Old), viscount of Béarn
• 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
• Gerresheim
• William VII (the Bold), duke of Aquitaine (b. 1023)

References