1096 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Bernhard becomes Bishop of Brandenburg
• First documented teaching at the University of Oxford
• Beginning of the People's Crusade, the German Crusade, and the First Crusade
• Vital I Michele is Doge of Venice
• Peter I, King of Aragon, conquers Huesca
• Phayao, now a province of Thailand, is founded as a kingdom

Births

• Hugh of St. Victor, scholar

Deaths

• William of St. Carilef, bishop of Durham and chief counsellor of William II of England
• Walter the Penniless, a leader of the First Crusade