926 Explained

Year 926 (CMXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Spring - The Italian nobles turn against King Rudolph II of Burgundy and request that Hugh of Provence, the effective ruler of Lower Burgundy, be elected as king of Italy. Rudolph's father-in-law Duke Burchard II of Swabia is ambushed and killed near Novara, by the henchmen of Archbishop Lambert of Milan. Rudolph, disillusioned by the news, returns to Burgundy to protect himself. Hugh has himself crowned King of Italy.^[1] and appoints Giselbert I as count palatine of Bergamo (Northern Italy).
Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Bulgarian forces under Duke Alogobotur are ambushed and defeated by a Croatian army of King Tomislav, in the mountainous area of Eastern Bosnia. Tsar Simeon I meets his first defeat against Croatia, but overruns the Western Balkans several times.
The Hungarians besiege Augsburg in Bavaria, then conquer the monastery of St. Gallen (modern Switzerland). After an unsuccessful battle with the locals, they burn the suburbs of Konstanz, then they cross westwards and defeat a Frankish army led by Duke Liutfred of Alsace.

King Æthelstan of Wessex and Mercia annexes Northumbria, and forces Wales and Strathclyde to accept his sovereignty along with the Picts and the Scots (approximate date).

May 15 - Emperor Zhuang Zong is killed during an officer's rebellion led by Guo Congqian at the old Tang capital of Luoyang. He is succeeded by his adoptive brother Li Siyuan (Ming Zong) as ruler of Later Tang. Li sends Yao Kun, as an emissary, to create a friendly relationship with the Khitan Empire.
September 6 - Emperor Taizu dies after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by his second son Tai Zong (Yaogu) as ruler of the Chinese Liao Dynasty. Taizu's eldest son Yelü Bei (designated heir apparent) becomes ruler of the Dongdan Kingdom (former Balhae), a puppet state of the Khitan Empire.

Pope John X allies himself with Hugh of Provence provoking the ire of Marozia, daughter of the Roman consul Theophylact I, who is married to Hugh's rival Guy of Tuscany.

January 8 - Athelm, archbishop of Canterbury
March 9 - Zhu Youqian, Chinese warlord
April 29 - Burchard II, duke of Swabia
May 15 - Zhuang Zong, emperor of Later Tang (b. 885)
May 26 - Yuan Xingqin, Chinese general
- - May 28 Kong Qian, official of Later Tang
- Li Jiji, prince of Later Tang
September 6 - Abaoji (Taizu), emperor of the Khitan Empire
December 12, William II, duke of Aquitaine
Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Khaqani, Abbasid vizier (or 927)
Alogobotur, Bulgarian nobleman (approximate date)
Ero Fernández, Galician magnate (approximate date)
Guo Chongtao, general of Later Tang
Jin Feishan, empress of Former Shu
Kang Yanxiao, Chinese general
Liu, empress and wife of Zhuang Zong
Pelagius of Córdoba, Christian martyr
Wang Zongyan, emperor of Former Shu (b. 899)
Wiborada, Swabian anchoress and martyr
Xu, empress dowager of Former Shu
Zhang Quanyi, Chinese warlord (b. 852)

Timothy Reuter (1999) The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 341. .