Year 1101 ( MCI ) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . It was the 2nd year of the 1100s decade , and the 1st year of the 12th century .

Events [ edit ]

By place [ edit ]

Byzantine Empire [ edit ]

• Crusade of 1101 – A second wave of European crusaders attempts to cross Anatolia , to reach the Kingdom of Jerusalem . They are defeated by the Seljuk troops under Sultan Kilij Arslan I , at Heraclea . A handful of crusaders under Raymond IV manage to reach the Byzantine port of Bafra , at the mouth of the River Halys . ^[1]
• Summer – The Byzantine fleet under Admiral Eustathios recaptures the ports of western Cilicia , Seleucia and Corycus . Eustathios extends his power over Cilician territory (belonging to Bohemond I ) further east ? occupying Tarsus , Adana and Mamistra . ^[2]

Levant [ edit ]

• Spring – King Baldwin I concludes an alliance with the Genoese fleet, offering them commercial privileges and booty. He captures the towns of Arsuf and Caesarea . Baldwin's crusaders pillage Caesarea and massacre the majority of the local population.
• September 7 – Battle of Ramla : A Crusader force (some 1,100 men) under Baldwin I defeats the invading Fatimids at Ramla (modern Israel ). Baldwin plunders the Fatimid camp and the survivors flee to Ascalon .

Europe [ edit ]

• June 22 – Roger I , count of Sicily , dies at Mileto in Calabria after a 30-year reign. He is succeeded by his 8-year-old son Simon of Hauteville , while his mother, Adelaide del Vasto , acts as his regent .
• Summer – Almoravid forces under Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin besiege Valencia , which is defended by Jimena Diaz , widow of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar . The city holds out until May 1102 . ^[3]
• Autumn – Countess Mathilda of Tuscany leads a successful expedition in northern Italy and takes Ferrara .
• The county of Berg in Germany is established.

England [ edit ]

• February 3 – Ranulf Flambard , bishop of Durham , escapes from the Tower of London and flees to Normandy . There he joins Robert Curthose , duke of Normandy, who has just returned from the Crusades .
• July 20 – Robert Curthose lands at Portsmouth with an army in an effort to take the English throne from his younger brother, Henry I . ^[4]
• August 2 – By the Treaty of Alton , ratified at Winchester , Robert abandons his claim to the throne, recognising Henry as King of England. ^{[4] [5]}

By topic [ edit ]

Culture [ edit ]

• A vast compilation of Liao , Korean , and Song Buddhist writings is completed (approximate date).

Religion [ edit ]

• Spring – Antipope Theodoric dies, the partisans of Emperor Henry IV choose Adalbert as the new antipope.
• April 19 – King Canute IV of Denmark is canonized as a saint under the name San Canuto. ^[6]
• Fontevraud Abbey is founded by the French preacher Robert of Arbrissel .

Births [ edit ]

• September – Ibn Bashkuwal , Andalusian biographer (d. 1183 )
• Abu al-Bayan ibn al-Mudawwar , Jewish physician (d. 1184 )
• Arslan Shah I , Seljuk sultan of Kerman (d. 1142 )
• Artaldus , bishop of Belly-Ars (d. 1206 )
• Fujiwara no Tamako , Japanese empress consort (d. 1145 )
• Helena of Skovde , Swedish noblewoman and saint (d. 1160 )
• Stephen II , king of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1131 ), and his twin Ladislaus

Deaths [ edit ]

• February 12 – Daozong of Liao , Chinese emperor (b. 1032 )
• March 14 – Fujiwara no Morozane , Japanese nobleman (b. 1042 )
• April 24 – Vseslav of Polotsk , Kievan prince
• May 16 – Liemar , archbishop of Bremen
• June 22 – Roger I , Norman nobleman
• July 27
  • Conrad II , king of Germany and Italy (b. 1074 ) ^[7]
  • Hugh d'Avranches , Norman nobleman
• August 24 – Su Shi , Chinese statesman and poet (b. 1037 )
• August 27 – Guillaume de Montfort , bishop of Paris
• September 7 – Geldemar Carpenel , French nobleman
• September 30 – Anselm IV , archbishop of Milan
• September – Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg , Bavarian-born Margravine of Austria and crusader (k. in battle) (b. c.1055)
• October 5 – Uicheon , Korean Buddhist monk (b. 1055 )
• October 6 – Bruno of Cologne , founder of the Carthusian Order (b. c.1030)
• October 18 – Hugh I , crusader, son of Henry I of France (b. 1057 )
• November 6 – Welf I, Duke of Bavaria , German nobleman
• November 15 – Elvira of Toro , Leonese princess (b. 1038 or 1039)
• December 11 – Nikon the Dry , Kievan monk and hermit
• December 12 – Al-Musta'li , Fatimid caliph (b. 1074)
• Constantine Bodin , king of Duklja (approximate date)
• Egilbert , archbishop of Trier
• Geoffrey Burel of Amboise , French nobleman, crusader (k. in battle)
• Gilla na Naemh Ua Dunabhra , Irish chief poet
• Qingshui , Chinese Chan Buddhist monk (b. 1047 )
• Su Song , Chinese statesman and scientist (b. 1020 )
• Theodoric , antipope of the Catholic Church
• Urraca of Zamora , Leonese princess
• Walter of Albano , Italian cardinal-bishop

References [ edit ]