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1106 CE

A comet (the Great Comet of 1106) is seen and reported by several civilisations around the world. Lasting for 40 days, the comet grows steadily in brightness until finally fading away. Emperor Henry IV escapes his captors at Ingelheim. He enters into negotiations at Cologne with English, French and Danish noblemen, and begins to collect an army to oppose his son Henry V but dies at Liège after a 49-year reign. Henry leads a successful expedition against Count Robert II of Flanders and is forced to swear his allegiance to him. Battle of Tinchebray: King Henry I defeats and imprisons his older brother Robert II, duke of Normandy, in Devizes Castle. Edgar Atheling (uncle of Henry's wife) and the 3-year-old William Clito, son of Robert, are also taken prisoner. Henry places his nephew William in the custody of Helias of Saint-Saens, count of Arques.

Conflict & Security

  • September 28 – Battle of Tinchebray: King Henry I defeats and imprisons his older brother Robert II, duke of Normandy, in Devizes Castle. Edgar Atheling (uncle of Henry's wife) and the 3-year-old William Clito, son of Robert, are also taken prisoner. Henry places his nephew William in the custody of Helias of Saint-Saens, count of Arques.source
  • Bolesław III, duke of Poland, begins a civil war against his half-brother Zbigniew, for control over Lesser Poland and Silesia.source
  • The city of Balaguer (located in Catalonia) is conquered from the Moors by Ermengol VI, count of Urgell.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • Autumn – Bohemond I returns to Apulia (Southern Italy) with an expeditionary force to prepare an offensive against the Byzantines. He is accompanied by his newlywed wife Constance (who is pregnant by him) and followers.source

Religion & Belief

  • Spring – Bohemond I, prince of Antioch, marries Constance of France (daughter of King Philip I) in the cathedral of Chartres. Philip agrees to marry his second daughter, the 9-year-old Cecile of France, to Tancred (nephew of Bohemond). Meanwhile, Bohemond mobilises an expeditionary force (some 30,000 men) to begin a campaign against Emperor Alexios I.source
  • Roger le Poer, bishop of Salisbury, is granted land in south Wales by Henry I. He starts the construction of Kidwelly Castle on the banks of the river Gwendraeth.source

Science & Discovery

  • February 2 – A comet (the Great Comet of 1106) is seen and reported by several civilisations around the world. Lasting for 40 days, the comet grows steadily in brightness until finally fading away.source

Culture & Society

  • Magnus Erlendsson becomes Earl of Orkney (until 1115).source

Births

  • Fujiwara no Michinori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1160)source
  • Matilda of Anjou, duchess of Normandy (d. 1154)source
  • Chŏng Chung-bu, Korean military leader (d. 1179)source
  • Xing, Chinese empress (d. 1139)source
  • Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese military leader (d. 1180)source
  • Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (d. 1141)source
  • Celestine III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1198)source
  • Ibn Asakir, Syrian scholar and historian (d. 1175)source
  • David FitzGerald, bishop of St. Davids (d. 1176)source
  • Hugh II, French nobleman (d. 1134)source
  • Magnus Nielsen, king of Västergötland (d. 1134)source
  • Alexios Komnenos, Byzantine co-emperor (d. 1142)source

Deaths

  • February 3 – Khalaf ibn Mula'ib, Uqaylid emirsource
  • April 16 – Arnold I, Lotharingian noblemansource
  • May 1 – Conon, Lotharingian noblemansource
  • May 19 – Geoffrey IV, French noblemansource
  • June 16 – Benno, bishop of Meissen (b. 1010)source
  • June 24 – Yan Vyshatich, Kievan noblemansource
  • August 7 – Emperor Henry IV escapes his captors at Ingelheim. He enters into negotiations at Cologne with English, French and Danish noblemen, and begins to collect an army to oppose his son Henry V but dies at Liège after a 49-year reign. Henry leads a successful expedition against Count Robert II of Flanders and is forced to swear his allegiance to him.source
  • August 23 – Magnus, German nobleman (b. 1045)source
  • September 13 – Peter, French noblemansource
  • September 17 – Manasses II, archbishop of Reimssource
  • October 7 – Hugh of Die, French bishop (b. 1040)source
  • Nathan ben Jehiel, Italian Jewish lexicographersource
  • Li Gonglin, Chinese painter and antiquarian (b. 1049)source
  • Minamoto no Yoshiie, Japanese samurai (b. 1039)source