1039 Explained

Year 1039 (MXXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• June 4  - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, ("the Elder") dies of gout in Utrecht after a 12-year reign. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old son, Henry III ("the Black"), who also becomes king of Italy and Burgundy.
• Duke Casimir I the Restorer returns to Poland, and makes great efforts to rebuild the war-ruined country. He establishes his residence at Kraków (which becomes Poland's capital until 1596).^[1]
• The Banu Tujib clan is deposed by Al-Mustain I, who starts the Banu Hud (Huddid dynasty), which rules over the Taifa of Zaragoza for almost a century.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• The Abbey of Bec is founded at Le Bec-Hellouin in Normandy (modern France).^[3]

Births

• Helibo, Chinese nobleman and chieftain (d. 1092)
• Minamoto no Yoshiie, Japanese samurai (d. 1106)
• Robert de Stafford, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
• Sancho IV, king of Pamplona (approximate date)
• Su Zhe, Chinese politician and historian (d. 1112)
• Vseslav of Polotsk, Kievan prince (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 10  - Odo of Gascony (or Eudes), French nobleman
• April 16  - William III, count of Weimar and Eichsfeld
• May 27  - Dirk III (or Theodoric), count of Holland
• June 4  - Conrad II ("the Elder"), Holy Roman Emperor^[4]
• July 20  - Conrad II ("the Younger"), duke of Carinthia
• September 19  - Fujiwara no Genshi, empress of Japan (b. 1016)
• November 4  - Hugh of Chalon, French bishop
• November 29  - Adalbero, German nobleman
• Abu Nasr Mushkan, Persian statesman (or 1040)
• Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig, prince of Gwynedd
• Nathar Shah, Tamil mystic and preacher (b. 969)
• Regimbald, German abbot and bishop
• Reginar V (or Régnier), French nobleman
• Sophia I, German princess and abbess (b. 975)^[5]
• Unsuri, Persian poet and writer (or 1040)

Notes and References

1. Richard Brzezinski (1995). History of Poland: Old Poland – The Piast Dynasty, p. 18. .
2. Book: Stalls, Clay. Possessing the land: Aragon's expansion into Islam's Ebro frontier under Alfonso the Battler, 1104-1134. 1995. Brill. 90-04-10367-8. viii.
3. Book: Constable. Giles. Three Treatises From Bec on the Nature of Monastic Life. 2008. University of Toronto Press. 9781442691629. 28. en.
4. Web site: Conrad II - Holy Roman emperor. Encyclopedia Britannica. 8 April 2018. en.
5. Book: McGrath. Alister E.. Christian History: An Introduction. 2013. John Wiley & Sons. 9781118337790. 104. en.