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December 2024 1062 1062 upright=1.35|thumb|Map of Wales during the reign of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (r. 1039–1063).#87de87 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn's kingdom Year 1062 (MLXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe Spring – Coup of Kaiserswerth: The 11-year-old King Henry IV is abducted, as a result of a conspiracy of German nobles led by Anno II, archbishop of Cologne. Henry's education and training is supervised by Anno, who acts as his regent and is called his magister (his "master" or "teacher"). Empress Agnes of Poitou (Henry's mother) resigns the throne, and Anno with the archbishops Siegfried I and Adalbert of Hamburg takes her place.Jonathan Riley-Smith (2004). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume IV – Part II (c. 1024–c. 1198), p. 54. 978-0-521-41411-1. Britain Winter – Harold Godwinson leads a successful campaign against King Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. He attacks and captures Rhuddlan Castle in northern Wales, but Gruffydd manages to escape. Africa The Almoravids overrun modern-day Morocco, and establish an intercontinental kingdom, stretching from Spain to Senegal.August 2025 The Banu Khurasan, a vassal of the Hammdid Dynasty, begin to rule the north of Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia).Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 55. Marrakesh is founded by the Almoravids which becomes their capital.Kilgore Shaun 2011-01-05 Marrakesh: A Brief History https://www.journeybeyondtravel.com/blog/history-marrakesh-morocco.html 2026-06-26 Journey Beyond Travel en-US By topic Religion Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict, is founded in Affligem (modern Belgium).Weir Alison https://books.google.com/books?id=mJbUDQAAQBAJ&dq=%221062%22+%22Affligem+Abbey%22&pg=PT244 Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066–1167 September 28, 2017 Random House 978-1-4735-2331-9 en Births Bjørn Svendsen, Danish nobleman (approximate date) Fujiwara no Moromichi, Japanese nobleman (d. 1099) Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine statesman (d. 1137) Nicephorus Komnenos, Byzantine aristocrat Deaths January 27 – Adelaide of Hungary, German duchess February 2 – Atenulf I, Lombard nobleman March 9 – Herbert II, French nobleman May 20 – Bao Zheng, Chinese politician (b. 999) October 22 Abe no Sadato, Japanese nobleman Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo, Japanese nobleman Abu Mansur Fulad Sutun, Buyid emir of Fars Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya (b. 1008) Al-Quda'i, Fatimid preacher and historian Emma of Provence, French noblewoman Geoffrey I, French nobleman (approximate date) Mu'izz al-Dawla Thimal, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo Nissim ben Jacob, Tunisian Jewish rabbi (b. 990) William IV, count of Weimar and Orlamünde Ibn al-Timnah, Emir of Syracuse References