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February 2011 1114 1114 upright=1.35|thumb|Empress Matilda (Maude) (1102–1167) Year 1114 (MCXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe January 7 – Emperor Henry V marries Matilda (or Maude), 11-year-old daughter of King Henry I of England, at Worms (modern Germany). A political conflict breaks out across the Holy Roman Empire after the marriage, triggered when Henry arrests Chancellor Adalbert and various other German princes.Marjorie Chibnall (1991). The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English, p. 27. London, UK: Basil Blackwell, 978-0-631-15737-3. Count Ramon Berenguer III (the Great) of Barcelona, joins the expedition to the Balearic Islands. A Pisan and Catalan fleet (some 450 ships), supported by a large army, conquer Ibiza and Mallorca. They destroy the bases on the islands used by Moorish pirates to prey on Mediterranean shipping. Battle of Martorell: The Almoravid governor of Zaragoza, Muhàmmad ibn al-Hajj, launches an expedition against the County of Barcelona, but is defeated in an ambush near Martorell.Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 86. As part of the Norman expansion southward, Count Routrou II enters the service of King Alfonso I (the Battler) of Aragon.McGrank Lawrence Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55 Journal of Medieval History 1981 7 1 67–82 10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1 Asia Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty sends a gift of Chinese musical instruments, for use in royal banquets to the Korean court of Goryeo, by request from King Yejong. By topic Earthquake November 29 – A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. From Antioch and Mamistra to Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks.Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 105. 978-0-241-29876-3. Religion The cathedral of Chichester in England, constructed of wood, is destroyed by fire."Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p. 25. Pontigny Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, is founded (located in Burgundy). Births Al-Suhayli, Moorish scholar and writer (d. 1185) Bhāskara II, Indian mathematician (d. 1185) Dirk VI (or Theodoric), count of Holland (d. 1157) Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese nobleman (d. 1204) Gebhard III, German nobleman (approximate date) Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator (d. 1187) Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumbria (d. 1152) Otto I, German bishop and chronicler (d. 1158) Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona (d. 1162) Deaths February 24 – Thomas II, archbishop of York October – Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir, was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir and Ismah. Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, Arab theologian (or 1115) Álvar Fáñez (or Háñez), Castilian nobleman Alypius of the Caves, Kievan monk and painter Erard I, French nobleman and crusader (b. 1060) Nestor the Chronicler, Kievan historian (or 1113) Richard of Salerno, Norman nobleman (b. 1060) Shahriyar IV, king of Mazandaran (b. 1039) Tokushi, Japanese empress consort (b. 1060) References