Year 1037 (MXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe Spring – A revolt in northern Italy is started by Archbishop Aribert of Milan. King Henry III (eldest son of Emperor Conrad II) travels south of the Alps to quell it. February – At an Imperial Diet in Pavia (assembled by Conrad II), Aribert is accused of fomenting a revolt against the Holy Roman Empire, Conrad orders his arrest. May – Conrad II, with Pavian assistance, lays siege to Milan at the Porta Romana side, but the city holds out. In Rome, Pope Benedict IX deposes Aribert as archbishop. May 28 – Conrad II decrees the Constitutio de Feudis which protects the rights of the valvassores (knights and burghers of the cities) in Lombardia (modern Italy). Summer – A Byzantine expeditionary force under George Maniakes lands at Sicily, and defeats the Zirids. Maniakes begins his campaign to reconquer the island. September 4 – Battle of Tamarón: Ferdinand I defeats and kills his brother-in-law Bermudo III. Ferdinand becomes the king of Castile and León (modern Spain). November 15 – Battle of Bar-le-Duc: Odo II, Count of Blois and Champagne, while invading the Duchy of Lorraine dies in battle with forces loyal to Gothelo I. England King Harold I seizes the throne of England from his half-brother Harthacnut. His mother, Emma of Normandy flees to Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium). Asia The Chinese rime dictionary of the Jiyun is published during the Song Dynasty. Births January 8 – Su Dongpo, Chinese calligrapher (d. 1101) Beatrice I, German abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1061) Hawise, duchess of Brittany (approximate date) Deaths September 4 – Bermudo III (or Vermudo), king of León November 15 – Odo II, French nobleman (b. 983) Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami, Persian poet Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Persian Shafi'i scholar Baba Kuhi of Shiraz, Persian Sufi mystic (b. 948) Avicenna, Persian physician and polymath (b. 980) Boleslaus III (the Red), duke of Bohemia Ding Wei, grand chancellor of the Song Dynasty Farrukhi Sistani, Persian poet (or 1038) John of Debar, Bulgarian clergyman and bishop Muhammad al-Baghdadi, Persian mathematician Muirgeas ua Cú Ceanainn, king of Uí Díarmata Robert II, French prelate and archbishop Siegfried II, German nobleman (b. 956) William III (Taillefer), French nobleman References