1114

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1090s 1100s 1110s 1120s 1130s
Years:	1111 1112 1113 1114 1115 1116 1117

1114 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1114 MCXIV
Ab urbe condita	1867
Armenian calendar	563 ԹՎ ՇԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	5864
Balinese saka calendar	1035–1036
Bengali calendar	520–521
Berber calendar	2064
English Regnal year	14 Hen. 1 – 15 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1658
Burmese calendar	476
Byzantine calendar	6622–6623
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3811 or 3604     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3812 or 3605
Coptic calendar	830–831
Discordian calendar	2280
Ethiopian calendar	1106–1107
Hebrew calendar	4874–4875
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1170–1171
- Shaka Samvat	1035–1036
- Kali Yuga	4214–4215
Holocene calendar	11114
Igbo calendar	114–115
Iranian calendar	492–493
Islamic calendar	507–508
Japanese calendar	Eikyū 2 (永久２年)
Javanese calendar	1019–1020
Julian calendar	1114 MCXIV
Korean calendar	3447
Minguo calendar	798 before ROC 民前798年
Nanakshahi calendar	−354
Seleucid era	1425/1426 AG
Thai solar calendar	1656–1657
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1240 or 859 or 87     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1241 or 860 or 88

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.^[1]
• 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 offensive against the County of Barcelona, but is defeated by Ramon Berenguer III.^[2]
• As part of the Norman expansion southward, Count Routrou II enters the service of King Alfonso I (the Battler) of Aragon.^[3]

Asia

• Emperor Hui Zong 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.^[4]

Religion

• The cathedral of Chichester in England, constructed of wood, is destroyed by fire.^[5]
• 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)

References

1. Marjorie Chibnall (1991). The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English, p. 27. London, UK: Basil Blackwell, ISBN 978-0-631-15737-3.
2. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 86.
3. McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History. 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.
4. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 105. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
5. "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.