1111
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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1111 in poetry |
Thai solar calendar | 1653–1654 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1237 or 856 or 84 — to — 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1238 or 857 or 85 |
Year 1111 (MCXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Levant
- Bursuq ibn Bursuq from Hamadan. The Crusaders (16,000 men), led by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem, are cut off from their supplies, and within two weeks (due to constant Seljuk skirmishes) forced to fall back on Afamiya in northern Syria.[1]
- Winter – The Crusaders, led by Baldwin I, besiege Tyre, without a supporting fleet. While besieging the town, a Byzantine embassy arrives in the Crusader camp. The Byzantines try to persuade Baldwin to join a coalition against Tancred, Italo-Norman prince of Galilee, but he refuses.[2]
Europe
- April 13 – Henry V is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Paschal II. Henry returns to Germany, where he strengthens his power by granting privileges to the German nobles of the region of the Upper Rhine.
- Almoravid forces under Syr ibn Abi Bakr capture Santarém and Sintra. The efforts of the Berbers to reconquer lost ground lead to the sack of Coimbra.[3] The same year the city revolts against their lord in Portugal.[4]
- The commune of Lodi Vecchio (known as Laus Pompeia) is besieged and destroyed by Milanese troops in northern Italy.
- October 5 – The 18-year-old Baldwin VII succeeds his father, Robert II, as Count of Flanders until 1119.
Ireland
- Domnall Ua Briain becomes king of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man, following a request from the people of the kingdom of Munster, to send them a ruler.[5]
Asia
- The Donglin Academy, a Chinese educational institution, is established in Wuxi during the Northern Song Dynasty.
By topic
Religion
- The structure.
Births
- Afonso I (the Conqueror), King of Portugal (d. 1185)
- Poland (d. 1163)
- Andrei Bogolyubsky, Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal (d. 1174)
- Henry II, Duke of Limburg (House of Ardenne) (d. 1167)
- Josceline de Bohon, bishop of Salisbury (d. 1184)
- Stephen of Armenia, Armenian nobleman (d. 1165)
Deaths
- January 29 – Piotr I (or Peter), bishop of Wrocław
- February 22 – Roger Borsa, Italo-Norman nobleman
- March 3 – Bohemond I, Italo-Norman nobleman (b. 1054)
- April 12 – Berthold II, German nobleman (b. 1050)
- April 17 – Robert of Molesme, French abbot (b. 1028)
- June 15 – Yun Kwan, Korean general (b. 1040)
- September 27 – Vekenega, Croatian abbess
- October 5 – Robert II, Count of Flanders (b. 1065)
- October 7 – Anna Polovetskaya, Kievan princess
- October 26 – Gómez González, Castilian nobleman
- November 8 – Otto II, German nobleman
- December 19
- Agnes of Rheinfelden, German noblewoman
- Al-Ghazali, Persian theologian (b. 1058)
- Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, Prince of Powys (b. 1051)
- Iorwerth ap Bleddyn, Prince of Powys (b. 1053)
- Ōe no Masafusa, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1041)
- Richard II, Italian consul and Duke of Gaeta
References
- ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
- ISBN 2-86537-844-6.
- ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 116.