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thumb|right|Emperor Taizu of Jin (1068–1123)
Year 1115 (MCXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Levant
September 14 – Battle of Sarmin: The Crusaders, under Prince Roger of Salerno, surprise and rout the Seljuk Turkish army (some 8,000 men), led by Emir Bursuq ibn Bursuq, at Sarmin (modern Syria). Bursuq barely avoids capture, and escapes with a few hundred horsemen. Roger reoccupies the fortress of Kafartab, and consolidates his territory around Antioch.Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 106–107. 978-0-241-29876-3.
The Crusader castle of Montreal (located in Jordan) is commissioned by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem, during an expedition against the Seljuk Turks.
Europe
February 11 – Battle of Welfesholz: Duke Lothair of Supplinburg joins the rebellious Saxon forces, and defeats the German Imperial Army of Emperor Henry V at Welfesholz, in Saxony-Anhalt (modern Germany).Comyn, Robert (1851). History of the Western Empire from its Restoration by Charlemagne to the Accession of Charles V, p. 181.
July 24 – Matilda, margravine of Tuscany, dies at Bondeno. During her reign she waged an intermittent war with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, over the inheritance rights of her fiefs in Lombardy and Tuscany.
Asia
The Jin dynasty (1115–1234) (or Great Jin) is created by the Jurchen tribal chieftain Taizu (or Aguda). He establishes a dual-administration system: a Chinese-style bureaucracy to rule over northern and northeast China.
The 19-year-old Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Japanese nobleman and samurai, gains recognition by suppressing a riot against Emperor Toba at a monastery near Kyoto (approximate date).
Mesoamerica
The Mixtec ruler Eight Deer Jaguar Claw is defeated in battle and sacrificed by a coalition of city-states, led by his brother-in law Four Wind, at Tilantongo in the Mixteca Alta region (modern Mexico).Pohl, John M. D. 2002 The Legend of Lord Eight Deer: An Epic of Ancient Mexico Oxford University Press Oxford; New York 978-0-19-514019-4 47054677
By topic
Religion
Arnulf of Chocques is accused of sexual relations with a Muslim woman. He is briefly removed from his position as patriarch of Jerusalem.
Peter Abelard, French scholastic philosopher, becomes master of the cathedral school of Notre-Dame and meets Héloïse d'Argenteuil.
Clairvaux Abbey is founded by Bernard, French abbot and a major leader in the reform of Benedictine monasticism, in France.
Hugh of Saint Victor, French theologian and writer, joins the Victorines (at the Augustinian Abbey of St. Victor) in Paris.
Births
April 18 – Gertrude of Süpplingenburg, German duchess and regent (d. 1143)
September 18 – Empress Wu (Song dynasty), Chinese consort (d. 1197)
Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, English nobleman (approximate date)
Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence (d. 1144)
Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman (approximate date)
Eustathius of Thessalonica, Byzantine archbishop (d. 1195)
Euthymios Malakes, Byzantine bishop (approximate date)
Fulk I FitzWarin (or Fulke), English nobleman (d. 1170)
Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford, English nobleman (d. 1152)
Hugo Etherianis, Italian cardinal and adviser (d. 1182)
Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi, German rabbi and writer (d. 1200)
Li Tao (or Renfu), Chinese historian and writer (d. 1184)
Magnus IV ("the Blind"), king of Norway (approximate date)
Pedro Fernández de Castro (Grand Master of the Order of Santiago), Spanish nobleman (d. 1184)
Peter Cellensis, French abbot and bishop (d. 1183)
Roger de Pont L'Évêque, Norman archbishop (d. 1181)
Welf VI, margrave of Tuscany (House of Welf) (d. 1191)
Wichmann von Seeburg, German archbishop (d. 1192)
William V, Marquis of Montferrat ("the Old"), ruler of the March of Montferrat (d. 1191)
Deaths
16 May – Lambert of Arras, Flemish bishopVanderputten Steven Reform, Conflict, and the Shaping of Corporate Identities: Collected Studies on Benedictine Monasticism, 1050-1150 2013 LIT Verlag Münster 978-3-643-90429-4 69 https://books.google.com/books?id=7aehAQAAQBAJ 22 May 2024 en
July 8 – Peter the Hermit, French religious leader
July 24 – Matilda, margravine of Tuscany (b. 1046)Matilda of Canossa countess of Tuscany https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matilda-of-Canossa Encyclopedia Britannica 18 March 2019 en
September 27 – Bonfilius, Italian Saint, bishop of FolignoNicolini Ugolino Bonfiglio, santo https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/santo-bonfiglio_res-779a85c5-87e8-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico) Treccani Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 12 (1971) 8 March 2023
December 22 – Olav Magnusson, king of Norway (b. 1099)
December 23 – Ivo of Chartres, French bishop (b. 1040)
December 30 – Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine
Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, Arab theologian (or 1114)
Adela of Flanders, queen consort of Denmark (b. 1064)
Artau II, Count of Pallars Sobirà, Catalan nobleman (approximate date)
Eight Deer Jaguar Claw, Mixtec ruler (b. 1063)
Gerberga, Countess of Provence (or Gerburge)
Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop (b. 1066)
Leo Marsicanus, Italian cardinal (b. 1046)
Mazdali ibn Tilankan, Almoravid governor
Odo of Champagne (Odo II or Eudes), French nobleman
Reynelm (or Reinelm), English bishop of Hereford
Shin Arahan, Burmese religious adviser
Tanchelm of Antwerp, Flemish priest
Turgot of Durham, English churchman, bishop of St Andrews
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