becomes High King of Ireland. After the submission of Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, Brian Boru makes an expedition to the North. Arabian Empire Winter – Khalaf ibn Ahmad, Saffarid emir of Sistan (modern Iran), is deposed and surrenders to the Ghaznavid Dynasty after a 39-year reign (approximate date). Asia In Japan, court lady Sei Shōnagon completes writing The Pillow Book. By topic Religion June – Frederick, archbishop of Ravenna, is sent as an imperial legate to the Synod of Pöhlde, to mediate between the claims of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim and Willigis, concerning the control of Gandersheim Abbey. Births May 10 – Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Muslim scholar (d. 1071) June 21 – Leo IX, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1054) Adolf II of Lotharingia, German nobleman (d. 1041) Alice of Normandy, countess of Burgundy (d. 1038) Aristakes Lastivertsi, Armenian historian (d. 1080) George I, king of Georgia (approximate date) Mei Yaochen, poet of the Song Dynasty (d. 1060) Nikephoros III, Byzantine emperor (d. 1081) Deaths January 8 – Wulfsige III, bishop of Sherborne January 23 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980) April 23 – Æscwig, bishop of Dorchester April 30 – Eckard I, margrave of Meissen May 6 – Ealdwulf, archbishop of York August 8 – Al-Mansur, Umayyad vizier and de facto ruler (b. 938) October 15 – Henry I, duke of Burgundy (b. 946) November 13 Gunhilde, Danish princess and noblewoman Pallig, Danish chieftain (jarl) of Devonshire Athanasius IV, Syrian patriarch of Antioch Domonkos I, archbishop of Esztergom Gisela, French princess (approximate date) Godfrey I (the Prisoner), Frankish nobleman John the Iberian, Georgian monk (approximate date) Kisai Marvazi, Persian author and poet (b. 953) Rogneda of Polotsk, Grand Princess of Kiev (b. 962) Sa'id al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir of Aleppo (Syria) Sancho Ramírez, king of Viguera (approximate date) References