1062

Year 1062 (MLXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Spring –
  Adalbert of Hamburg takes her place.^[1]

• 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).^[2]
• Marrakech
  is founded by the Almoravids which becomes their capital.

• Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict, is founded in Affligem (modern Belgium).^[3]

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
• May 20 – Bao Zheng, Chinese politician (b. 999)
• October 22
  • Abe no Sadato, Japanese nobleman
  • Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo, Japanese nobleman
• 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