1115

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Year 1115 (MCXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Levant

• Bursuq ibn Bursuq, at Sarmin (modern Syria). Bursuq barely avoids capture, and escapes with a few hundred horsemen. Roger reoccupies the fortress of Kafartab, and consolidates his territory around Antioch.^[1]
• The Crusader castle of Montreal (located in Jordan) is commissioned by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem, during an expedition against the Seljuk Turks.

Europe

• February 11 – Battle of Welfesholz: Duke Lothair of Supplinburg joins the rebellious Saxon forces, and defeats the German Imperial Army of Emperor Henry V at Welfesholz, in Saxony-Anhalt (modern Germany).^[2]
• July 24 – Matilda, margravine of Tuscany, dies at Bondeno. During her reign she waged an intermittent war with Emperor Henry IV over the inheritance rights of her fiefs in Lombardy and Tuscany.

Asia

• The Jin Dynasty (or Great Jin) is created by the Jurchen tribal chieftain Taizu (or Aguda). He establishes a dual-administration system: a Chinese-style bureaucracy to rule over northern and northeast China.
• The 19-year-old Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Japanese nobleman and samurai, gains recognition by suppressing a riot against Emperor Toba at a monastery near Kyoto (approximate date).

Mesoamerica

• The Mixtec ruler Eight Deer Jaguar Claw (or 8 Deer) is defeated in battle and sacrificed by a coalition of city-states, led by his brother-in law 4 Wind, at Tilantongo in the Mixteca Alta region (modern Mexico).^[3]

By topic

Religion

• patriarch of Jerusalem
  .
• Peter Abelard, French scholastic philosopher, becomes master of the cathedral school of Notre-Dame and meets Héloïse d'Argenteuil.
• Clairvaux Abbey is founded by Bernard, French abbot and a major leader in the reform of Benedictine monasticism, in France.
• Hugh of Saint Victor, French theologian and writer, joins the Victorines (at the Augustinian Abbey of St. Victor) in Paris.

Births

• April 18 – Gertrude, German duchess and regent (d. 1143)
• September 18 – Wu, Chinese empress consort (d. 1197)
• Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford (approximate date)
• count of Provence (d. 1144
  )
• Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman (approximate date)
• Eustathius of Thessalonica, Byzantine archbishop (d. 1195)
• Euthymios Malakes, Byzantine bishop (approximate date)
• Fulk I FitzWarin (or Fulke), English nobleman (d. 1170)
• Earl of Hertford (d. 1152
  )
• Hugo Etherianus, Italian cardinal and adviser (d. 1182
  )
• Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi, German rabbi and writer (d. 1200)
• Li Tao (or Renfu), Chinese historian and writer (d. 1184)
• Magnus IV (the Blind), king of Norway
  (approximate date)
• Pedro Fernández de Castro, Spanish nobleman (d. 1184)
• Peter Cellensis, French abbot and bishop (d. 1183)
• Roger de Pont L'Évêque, Norman archbishop (d. 1181)
• Welf VI, margrave of Tuscany (House of Welf) (d. 1191)
• Wichmann von Seeburg, German archbishop (d. 1192)
• William V (the Old), marquis of Montferrat (d. 1191)

Deaths

• July 8 – Peter the Hermit, French religious leader
• July 24 – Matilda, margravine of Tuscany (b. 1046)^[4]
• bishop of Foligno^[5]
• December 22 – Olav Magnusson, king of Norway (b. 1099)
• December 23 – Ivo of Chartres, French bishop (b. 1040)
• December 30 – Theodoric II, duke of Lorraine
• Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, Arab theologian (or 1114)
• Adela of Flanders, queen of Denmark (b. 1064)
• Artau II, count of Pallars Sobirà (approximate date)
• Eight Deer Jaguar Claw, Mixtec ruler (b. 1063)
• Gerberga (or Gerburge), countess of Provence
• Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop (b. 1066)
• Leo Marsicanus
  , Italian cardinal (b. 1046)
• Mazdali ibn Tilankan, Almoravid governor
• Odo II (or Eudes), count of Champagne
• Reynelm (or Reinelm), bishop of Hereford
• Shin Arahan, Burmese religious adviser
• Tanchelm of Antwerp, Flemish priest
• Turgot of Durham, Scottish bishop

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