1106

Contents

Events

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events

★ February 2 — Great Comet of 1106 first sighted.[1]

★ September 28 — Henry I of England defeats his older brother Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebrai, and imprisons him in Devizes castle; Edgar Atheling and William Clito are also taken prisoner.

Undated

★ Balaguer, Spain, is captured from the Moors by the count of Urgell.

★ Boleslaus III of Poland begins a war against his brother Zbigniew for control of Poland.

Births

★ April 12 — Rikissa of Poland, queen in Sweden and grand princess of Minsk

★ Pope Celestine III (approximate date; died 1198)

★ Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese leader of the Minamoto armies in the Genpei War (d. 1180)

Deaths

★ August 7 — Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)

★ August 23 — Magnus, Duke of Saxony

★ Robert Malet, English baron

★ Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, Syrian jurist and philologist

★ Yusuf ibn Tashfin, ruler of Spain and North Africa