1077
Calendar year
King Alfonso VI is crowned, and becomes "Emperor of all Spain ".
Year 1077 (MLXXVII ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
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Byzantine Empire
Europe
January 25 – Walk to Canossa : Emperor Henry IV travels to the Castle of Canossa near Reggio Emilia (Northern Italy ), to visit Pope Gregory VII . He waits (with his wife Bertha of Savoy and son Conrad ) at the gates for three days, for absolution of his excommunication . Gregory lifts the sentence, imposing on Henry a vow to comply with certain conditions (see Investiture Controversy ).
King Alfonso VI ("the Brave") reaches an agreement with his cousin Sancho Ramírez , who is elected as king of Navarre . Alfonso annexes the territories of Álava , part of Gipuzkoa and La Bureba , he is crowned and adopts the title of Imperator totius Hispaniae ("Emperor of all Spain ").[ 1]
March 14 – German nobles opposing king Henry IV elected an antiking , Rudolf of Rheinfelden , despite king Henry having been absolved.
April 3 – Henry IV grants the County of Friuli (with ducal status) to Sigaerd of Beilstein , patriarch of Aquileia . He creates the first Parliament , representing the communes as well the nobility and clergy .
Hugh I , duke of Burgundy , supports Sancho Ramírez (or Sancho V) in his conquest of the Castle of Muñones from Emir Ahmad al-Muqtadir , who rules the Taifa of Zaragoza .[ 2]
King Mihailo I is given the title "King of the Slavs " by Gregory VII. He becomes the first recognized ruler of the kingdom of Duklja (modern Montenegro ).
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References
^ Minguez Fernández, José María (2009). Alfonso VI/Gregorio VII. Soberanía imperial frente a soberanía papal , pp. 30–33. ISSN 1575-801X.
^ Canellas, Angel (1951). "Las Cruzadas de Aragon en el Siglo XI" . Argensola: Revista de Ciencias Sociales del Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses . 7 . ISSN 0518-4088 . Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2012 .
^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance , p. 25. Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876).
^ Claude Cahen (1968). Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history c. 1070–1330 . Trans. J. Jones-Williams, pp. 73–74 (New York: Taplinger).
^ Grape, Wolfgang (1994). The Bayeux tapestry: monument to a Norman triumph . Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-1365-8 . Retrieved May 3, 2012 .
^ Cowdrey, H. E. J. (1998). Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085 , p. 279. Oxford: Clarendon Press.