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Events

★ May 23 — Lothair of Saxony becomes Holy Roman Emperor on the death of Henry V.

★ War ends between Toulouse and Provence.

★ The castle of Nassau is built.

★ Albert of Aix begins his ''Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis''.

★ Magnus the Strong becomes ruler of Sweden.

★ June 11 — The Crusaders defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Azaz.

★ A collection of Zen Buddhist koans is compiled in the Chinese ''Blue Cliff Record''.

Births

★ Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (d. 1194)

★ Lu You, Chinese poet (d. 1210)

Deaths

★ January 24 — King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073).

★ April 12 — Vladislav I of Bohemia.

★ May 19 — Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Duke of Kiev.

★ May 23 — Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081).

★ October 21 — Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian chronicler.

★ Eustace III of Boulogne.

★ Ingold II, ruler of Sweden (b. 1105).

★ Irnerius, teacher at Bologna.