1102
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Events

• Valencia is captured by the Almoravids. It is later recaptured, evacuated and burned by Alfonso VI of Castile.
• Henry I of England orders the tomb of Edward the Confessor opened; the body is found undecayed.
• Henry I of England takes possession of Arundel Castle.
• The Hohenbaden castle is built in Baden-Baden, Germany.
• Bolesław III becomes king of Poland.
• Coloman of Hungary is crowned in the town of Biograd, adding the Croatian duchies of Slavonia and Dalmatia to the crown of Hungary (personal union with Hungary).
• The Crusaders capture Caesarea Maritima.
• The Crusaders defeat an Egyptian invasion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem near Ascalon.
• Dagobert of Pisa is briefly deposed as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (and restored later in the year).
• Raymond IV of Toulouse begins to besiege Tripoli, and takes the nominal title of Count of Tripoli.
• Raymond IV of Toulouse is imprisoned by Tancred, regent of the Principality of Antioch.

Births

• February 7 — Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England (d. 1167)
• October 25 — William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)

Deaths

• May 19 — Stephen, Count of Blois
• Anna Dalassena, Byzantine regent (b. 1025)
• King Wladislaus I Herman of Poland (b. 1040)

See also Category: 1102 deaths.