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1090
1090
upright=1.35|thumb|Hassan-i Sabbah (c. 1050–1124)
Year 1090 (MXC) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
A third Almoravid expedition is launched in Al-Andalus, designed to finally subdue the Taifa's Kingdoms. The cities of Córdoba, Seville, Granada, Málaga, Almería and Ronda fall to the troops of Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin.Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 83.
King Stephen II of Croatia becomes involved in an open conflict between factions of the Croatian nobility, who reassert their traditional rights in their own counties.
November 3 – King William Rufus of England tries to take advantage of the unrest in Normandy and take it from his brother Robert Curthose. Though he wins over several Norman nobles to his side, his plot to capture the capital city of Rouen fails.Hollister Charles Warren Henry I 1 January 2001 Yale University Press 978-0-300-09829-7 69-71 https://www.google.es/books/edition/Henry_I/fApJih-hDTQC 17 September 2025 en
Middle East
Hassan-i Sabbah founds the Nizari Ismaili state after taking control of the Alamut Castle and organising the military group called the Order of Assassins.Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 96–97. 978-0-241-29876-3.
Africa
Béjaïa (or Bugia) becomes the capital of the Hammadid dynasty in modern-day Algeria. It becomes an important port and centre of culture.
By topic
Arts and Culture
Troubadours begin playing in western Aquitaine (Poitou and Saintonge) and Gascony (approximate date).
Science and Technology
Qin Guan, Chinese poet of the Song dynasty, writes the Can Shu (Book of Sericulture), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.
Births
January 17 – Qin Hui, Chinese chancellor (d. 1155)
unknown dates
Frederick II ("the One-Eyed"), German nobleman (d. 1147)John B. Freed Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth https://books.google.com/books?id=tng8DAAAQBAJ&pg=PR19 1 January 2016 Yale University Press 978-0-300-12276-3 19
Dōin (Fujiwara no Atsuyori), Japanese waka poet (d. 1179)McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press. Page 146
probable
Adolf III, German count of Berg and Hövel (d. 1152)
Agnes I, German abbess of Quedlinburg (approximate date)
Alaungsithu, Burmese king of the Pagan dynasty (d. 1167)
Arnold of Brescia, Italian canon regular (approximate date)
Bernard of Clairvaux, French abbot and theologian (d. 1153)
Chen Yuyi, Chinese politician of the Song dynasty (d. 1138)
Eliezer ben Nathan, German rabbi and liturgical poet (d. 1170)
Eric II ("the Memorable"), king of Denmark (approximate date)
Fujiwara no Akisuke, Japanese nobleman and poet (d. 1155)
Juliane de Fontevrault, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England
Conrad I, Duke of Zähringen, German nobleman and rector of Burgundy (d. 1152)
Niklot (or Nyklot), Obotrite prince and tribal chief (d. 1160)
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, illegitimate son of King Henry I of England
Theobald II of Champagne ("the Great"), French nobleman
Theobald of Bec, Norman churchman, archbishop of Canterbury
William de Mohun, 1st Earl of Somerset, Anglo-Norman nobleman
Deaths
March 22 – García II, king of Galicia and Portugal (b. 1042)
April 16 – Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (b. 1040)
May 3 – Adelaide of Rheinfelden, queen consort of HungaryEleventh-century Germany: The Swabian chronicles https://books.google.com/books?id=PW8CEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA299 1 January 2013 Manchester University Press 978-1-5261-1282-8 299
May 12 – Liutold of Eppenstein, German nobleman
May 18 – Berthold of Rheinfelden, German nobleman
June 26 – Jaromír, Bohemian prince and bishop
July 3 – Egbert II (or Ekbert), German nobleman
August 11 – Fujiwara no Atsuie, Japanese nobleman (b. 1033) Kanō higefumi
Shigefumi Kanō Fujiwara no Atsuie ja:藤原敦家 267 Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten ja:日本古典文学大辞典 Japanese 1983 5 Tokyo Iwanami Shoten 11917421
August 13 – Constance of Normandy, duchess of Brittany
unknown dates
Abd al-Jalil ibn Wahbun, Moorish poet and writer
Fayun Faxiu, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk (b. 1027)
Richard fitz Gilbert, Norman nobleman (b. c.10350
Guo Xi, Chinese landscape painterBarnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. 0-300-07013-6 Page 372
St Isaiah of Rostov, Kievan missionary and bishopAlban Butler Paul Burns Butler's Lives of the Saints https://books.google.com/books?id=7f1CnVuWceQC&pg=PA84 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-86012-254-8 84
Raynald I, French Benedictine abbot (b. 1059)
William of Poitiers, French priest and chronicler (b. c.1020)
probable
Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer
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