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Events

★ Valencia is captured by the Almoravids.

★ Henry I of England orders the tomb of Edward the Confessor opened; the body is found undecayed.

★ Henry I of England takes possession of Arundel Castle.

★ The Hohenbaden castle is built in Baden-Baden, Germany.

★ Bolesław III becomes king of Poland.

★ coronation of Coloman of Hungary in the town of Biograd, adding the Croatian duchies of Slavonia and Dalmatia to the crown of Hungary (Personal union with Hungary).

★ Crusaders capture Caesarea Maritima.

★ Crusaders defeat an Egyptian invasion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem near Ascalon.

★ Dagobert of Pisa is briefly deposed as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (and restored later in the year).

★ Raymond IV of Toulouse begins to besiege Tripoli, and takes the nominal title of count of Tripoli.

★ Raymond IV of Toulouse is imprisoned by Tancred, regent of the Principality of Antioch.

Births

★ February 7 — Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England (d. 1167)

★ October 25 — William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)

Deaths

★ May 19 — Stephen, Count of Blois

★ Anna Dalassena, Byzantine regent (b. 1025)

★ King Wladislaus I Herman of Poland (b. 1040)