1087 Explained

Year 1087 (MLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer  - The Taifa of Valencia falls under the domination of El Cid. He stabilizes the region around Valencia, which has revolted against the Moorish puppet ruler Al-Qadir.^[1]
• Inge the Elder returns to Svealand and kills his brother-in-law Blot-Sweyn after a 3-year reign. Inge again proclaims himself king of Sweden (approximate date).

England

• September 9  - William the Conqueror dies in Rouen after a fall from his horse. He is succeeded as king of England by his third son William II.
• A fire in London destroys much of the city, including St. Paul's Cathedral. Bishop Maurice starts the rebuilding of a new, much larger cathedral.

Africa

• Mahdia campaign: The navies of Genoa and Pisa take the capital of the Zirids, and occupy Mahdia for a year. Subsequently, both republics obtain trading privileges.^[2]
• Completion of Bab al-Futuh, Cairo

Japan

• January 3  - Emperor Shirakawa abdicates in favor of his 7-year-old son Horikawa after a 14-year reign. He exerts his personal power to set the cloistered rule system further in motion.

Middle East

• May: The marriage of Caliph al-Muqtadi and Mah-i Mulk is consummated. This marriage strengthens the political relation of Malik-Shah I and the Caliph.

By topic

Religion

• May 9  - The relics of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of seafarers, are stolen by Italian sailors from his church in Myra (modern Turkey) and transported to Bari in southern Italy.^[3]
• September 16  - Pope Victor III dies after a 1-year pontificate at Monte Cassino. He is buried in the abbey's chapter house.

Births

• September 13  - John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1143)
• Ibn Quzman, Andalusian poet and writer (approximate date)
• Reginald III (or Renaud), count of Burgundy (approximate date)
• Theoderich van Are (or Dietrich), German nobleman (d. 1126)

Deaths

• June 9  - Otto I ("the Fair"), prince of Olomouc (b. 1045)
• June 27  - Henry I the Long, margrave of the Nordmark
• September 9  - William the Conqueror, king of England^[4]
• September 16  - Victor III, pope of the Catholic Church
• September 25  - Simon I, French nobleman (b. 1025)
• November 12  - William I, French nobleman (b. 1020)
• December 13  - Maria Dobroniega, duchess of Poland
• December 27  - Bertha of Savoy, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1051)
• Abu Bakr ibn Umar, military leader of the Almoravids
• Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Arab astrologer (b. 1029)
• Arnold of Soissons (or Arnoul), French bishop (b. 1040)
• Asma bint Shihab, queen and co-regent of Yemen
• Blot-Sweyn, king of Svealand (approximate date)
• Eustace II, count of Boulogne (approximate date)
• Leo Diogenes, Byzantine co-emperor (b. 1069)
• Solomon (or Salomon), king of Hungary (b. 1053)
• Yaropolk Izyaslavich, prince of Turov and Volhyn

Notes and References

1. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 83.
2. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 56.
3. Book: Kleinhenz, Christopher. Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. 2010. Routledge. New York. 978-0-415-93930-0. 95.
4. Web site: William I (the Conqueror) . Westminster Abbey . 8 October 2022 . en.