Events

• The people of Laon, France, proclaim a commune and murder their bishop.

• Salzwedel, Germany is founded.

• The German state of Baden is founded.

• Afonso I becomes Count of Portugal.

• Otto of Ballenstedt is made Duke of Saxony by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.

• Anonymus Gallus begins to write Gesta principium Polonorum to Boleslaw III.

Deaths

• October 5—Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler

• Tancred, Prince of Galilee, crusader (b. 1072)

• Giorgi II of Georgia

• Henry, Count of Portugal (b. 1066)

• Bertrand of Toulouse, count of Toulouse, and the first count of Tripoli.