Spring –
Bohemond I, prince of
Antioch, marries
Constance of France (daughter of King
Philip I) in the cathedral of
Chartres. Philip agrees to marry his second daughter, the 9-year-old
Cecile of France, to
Tancred (nephew of Bohemond). Meanwhile, Bohemond mobilises an expeditionary force (some 30,000 men) to begin a campaign against Emperor
Alexios I.[1]
August 7 – Emperor
Henry IV escapes his captors at
Ingelheim. He enters into negotiations at
Cologne with English, French and Danish noblemen, and begins to collect an army to oppose his son
Henry V but dies at
Liège after a 49-year reign. Henry leads a successful expedition against Count
Robert II of
Flanders and is forced to swear his
allegiance to him.
Autumn – Bohemond I returns to
Apulia (Southern
Italy) with an expeditionary force to prepare an offensive against the
Byzantines. He is accompanied by his newlywed wife Constance (who is pregnant by him) and followers.
February 2 – A
comet (the
Great Comet of 1106) is seen and reported by several civilisations around the world. Lasting for 40 days, the comet grows steadily in brightness until finally fading away.[4]
^Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 39.
ISBN978-0-241-29876-3.
^C. Warren Hollister (2003). Henry I, p. 206. (Yale University Press, New Haven & London)
^Muir, Tom (2005). Orkney in the Sagas: The Story of the Earldom of Orkney as told in the Icelandic Sagas. Kirkwall: The Orcadian. p. 63.
ISBN0954886232.