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1052

Note

1052

Year 1052 (MLII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

England

  • Summer – Godwin, Earl of Wessex, sails with a large fleet up the Thames to London, forcing King Edward the Confessor to reinstate him into his previous position of power.

Africa

  • Battle of Haydaran: The Zirid dynasty is defeated by the invading Bedouin Arab tribes of the Banu Hilal.

By topic

Religion

  • Byōdō-in, a Japanese Buddhist temple (located in the Kyoto Prefecture), changes its name by order of Fujiwara no Yorimichi.

Births

  • May 23 – Philip I ("the Amorous"), king of France (d. 1108)
  • September/October – Conrad II ("the Child"), duke of Bavaria (d. 1055)
  • Agnes of Aquitaine, countess of Savoy (approximate date)
  • Dirk V, count of Friesland (west of the Vlie) (d. 1091)
  • Edgar Ætheling, uncrowned king of England (d. c. 1126) (approximate date)
  • Gleb Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince (approximate date)
  • Jón Ögmundsson, Icelandic bishop and saint (d. 1121)
  • Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
  • Roman Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince (approximate date)

Deaths

  • March 6 – Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England (twice), Denmark and Norway (b. 984)
  • May 6 – Boniface III, Italian prince and margrave (assassinated)
  • June 2/4 – assassinations
    • Guaimar IV of Salerno, Italian nobleman
    • Pandulf III of Salerno, Lombard prince
    • Pandulf of Capaccio, Lombard nobleman
  • June 19 – Fan Zhongyan, chancellor of the Song dynasty (b. 989)
  • October 4 – Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1020)
  • October 27 – Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir
  • December 14 – Aaron Scotus, Irish abbot and musician
  • Amadeus I, count of Savoy (approximate date)
  • Halinard, French archbishop (approximate date)
  • Hugh II, count of Ponthieu (also lord of Abbeville)
  • Rodulf, Norman missionary bishop and abbot
  • Sweyn Godwinson (or Swein), English nobleman
  • Xu Daoning, Chinese painter (approximate date)
  • Xuedou Chongxian, Chinese Buddhist monk

References

References

  1. Gilbert Meynier (2010) ''L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)''. Paris: La Découverte; p. 53.
  2. Zetterstéen, K. V.. (1927). "Ḳarwās̲h̲". E. J. Brill.
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