abbot (d. 1073) Egbert, German Benedictine abbot (d. 1058) Duthac, patron saint of Tain (Scotland) (d. 1065) Gilbert, Norman nobleman (approximate date) Guigues I, French nobleman (approximate date) Irmgardis, German noblewoman and saint John Mauropous, Byzantine hymnographer Kyiso, Burmese king of the Pagan Dynasty (d. 1038) Liudolf, German nobleman (approximate date) Lý Thái Tông, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1054) Michael I, Byzantine patriarch (approximate date) Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi, Fatimid scholar (d. 1078) Otto Bolesławowic, Polish prince (d. 1033) Qawam al-Dawla, Buyid governor (d. 1028) Robert de Turlande, French priest (d. 1067) Rotho, bishop of Paderborn (approximate date) Sylvester III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1063) Uta von Ballenstedt, margravine of Meissen William V, count of Auvergne (d. 1064) Yi Yuanji. Chinese painter (approximate date) Deaths May 17 – Ramwold, German Benedictine monk and abbot September 9 – Olaf Tryggvason (or Olaf I), king of Norway Abu'l Haret Ahmad, Farighunid ruler (approximate date) Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Persian astronomer and mathematician Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Persian physician, mathematician and astronomer Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi, Persian physician Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Arab traveller and writer (approximate date) Ælfthryth, English queen and wife of Edgar I (approximate date) Barjawan, vizier and regent of the Fatimid Caliphate Fantinus (the Younger), Italian hermit and abbot García Sáchez II, king of Pamplona (approximate date) Gosse Ludigman, governor (potestaat) of Friesland Huyan Zan, Chinese general of the Song Dynasty Ivar of Waterford, Norse Viking king of Dublin Jacob ibn Jau, Andalusian-Jewish silk-manufacturer Judah ben David Hayyuj, Moroccan-Jewish linguist Malfrida, Russian Grand Princess consort of Kiev Manfred I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date) Masako, Japanese empress consort (b. 950) Minamoto no Shigeyuki, Japanese waka poet Shahriyar III, Bavand ruler of Tabaristan Tyra of Denmark, queen consort of Norway Ukhtanes of Sebastia, Armenian historian See also References Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (1999) John Man Atlas of the Year 1000 (1999) 1000