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Empress Matilda (Maude) (1102–1167)

Year 1114 (MCXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• January 7 – Emperor Henry V marries Matilda (or Maude), 11-year-old daughter of King Henry I of England, at Worms (modern Germany). A political conflict breaks out across the Holy Roman Empire after the marriage, triggered when Henry arrests Chancellor Adalbert and various other German princes.<ref>Marjorie Chibnall (1991). The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English, p. 27. London, UK: Basil Blackwell, Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Count Ramon Berenguer III (the Great) of Barcelona, joins the expedition to the Balearic Islands. A Pisan and Catalan fleet (some 450 ships), supported by a large army, conquer Ibiza and Mallorca. They destroy the bases on the islands used by Moorish pirates to prey on Mediterranean shipping.
• Battle of Martorell: The Almoravid governor of Zaragoza, Muhàmmad ibn al-Hajj, launches an expedition against the County of Barcelona, but is defeated in an ambush near Martorell.<ref>Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 86.</ref>
• As part of the Norman expansion southward, Count Routrou II enters the service of King Alfonso I (the Battler) of Aragon.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Asia

• Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty sends a gift of Chinese musical instruments, for use in royal banquets to the Korean court of Goryeo, by request from King Yejong.

By topic

Earthquake

• November 29 – A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. From Antioch and Mamistra to Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks.<ref>Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 105. Template:ISBN.</ref>

Religion

• The cathedral of Chichester in England, constructed of wood, is destroyed by fire.<ref>"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p. 25.</ref>
• Pontigny Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, is founded (located in Burgundy).

Births

• Al-Suhayli, Moorish scholar and writer (d. 1185)
• Bhāskara II, Indian mathematician (d. 1185)
• Dirk VI (or Theodoric), count of Holland (d. 1157)
• Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese nobleman (d. 1204)
• Gebhard III, German nobleman (approximate date)
• Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator (d. 1187)
• Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumbria (d. 1152)
• Otto I, German bishop and chronicler (d. 1158)
• Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona (d. 1162)

Deaths

• February 24 – Thomas II, archbishop of York
• October – Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir, was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir and Ismah.
• Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, Arab theologian (or 1115)
• Álvar Fáñez (or Háñez), Castilian nobleman
• Alypius of the Caves, Kievan monk and painter
• Erard I, French nobleman and crusader (b. 1060)
• Nestor the Chronicler, Kievan historian (or 1113)
• Richard of Salerno, Norman nobleman (b. 1060)
• Shahriyar IV, king of Mazandaran (b. 1039)
• Tokushi, Japanese empress consort (b. 1060)