1038
Calendar year
Peter Orseolo becomes king of Hungary
Year 1038 (MXXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
August 15 – On the death of his uncle, Stephen I , Peter Orseolo becomes the second ruler of Hungary .
August – A battle occurs near the town of Alfuente, Andalucia , between the Taifa of Granada and the Taifa of Almeria , as described by the Jewish poet Samuel ibn Naghrela .
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor ("the Elder") travels to Southern Italy and holds court in Troia . He orders Pandulf IV of Capua to restore the territories of Monte Cassino . Pandulf holes himself up in the fortress of Sant'Agata de' Goti , and dispatches tribute (300 lb of gold) and his son as hostage to Troia as a token of peace. Conrad accepts his offer, but the son escapes. Conrad goes on the offensive and seizes Capua, and gives it to Guaimar IV of Salerno .
Duke John II drives his brother Manso II and his mother Maria out of Amalfi . He has Manso blinded and exiled to the island of Sirenuse . John reconciles with Maria, and allows her to remain as co-ruler of Amalfi.
Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia invades Poland . He captures and destroys the cities of Gniezno and Poznań .
The name of Versailles , at this time a small village, appears for the first time in a medieval charter in France .
Asia
Births
Deaths
March – William VI, Duke of Aquitaine , French nobleman (b. 1004 )
March 28 – Hai Gaon , Jewish theologian (b. 939 )
April 23 – Liudolf of Brunswick , margrave of Frisia
May 4 – Gotthard , bishop of Hildesheim (b. 960 )
May 22 – Shibl al-Dawla Nasr , Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
July 6 – Ōnakatomi no Sukechika , Japanese poet (b. 954 )
July 18 – Gunhilda of Denmark , queen consort of Germany
July – Herman IV , duke of Swabia (House of Babenberg )
August 15 – Stephen I , king of Hungary
November 1 – Herman I, Margrave of Meissen , German nobleman
December 3 – Emma of Lesum , German noblewoman
December 20 – Beorhtheah , bishop of Worcester
Aethelnoth , archbishop of Canterbury
Alice of Normandy , countess of Burgundy
Al-Tha'alibi , Persian historian (b. 961 )
Budic of Nantes , French nobleman
Ealdred , ealdorman of Bamburgh , murdered
Ermengol II ("the Pilgrim"), count of Urgell
Farrukhi Sistani , Persian poet (or 1037 )
Felix of Rhuys , Breton Benedictine abbot
Habbus al-Muzaffar , Zirid ruler of Granada
Kyiso , Burmese king of the Pagan Dynasty
Ralph III of Valois (or Raoul), French nobleman
References
Sources
McGrath, Michael (2008). "Frustrated Empires: The Song-Tangut Xia War of 1038–1044", in Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period , 151–190. Edited by Don J. Wyatt. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6084-9 .