1102

Events

• Valencia is captured by the Almoravids.
• Henry I of England orders the tomb of Edward the Confessor opened; the body is found undecayed.
• Henry I of England takes possession of Arundel Castle.
• The Hohenbaden castle is built in Baden-Baden, Germany.
• Boleslav III becomes king of Poland.
• coronation of Coloman of Hungary in the town of Biograd, adding the Croatian duchies of Slavonia and Dalmatia to the crown of Hungary.
• Crusaders capture Caesarea Palaestina.
• Crusaders defeat an Egyptian invasion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem near Ascalon.
• Dagobert of Pisa is briefly deposed as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (and restored later in the year).
• Raymond IV of Toulouse begins to besiege Tripoli, and takes the nominal title of count of Tripoli.
• Raymond IV of Toulouse is imprisoned by Tancred, regent of the Principality of Antioch.

Births

• February 7 - Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England

Deaths

• May 19 - Stephen, Count of Blois
• Ladislaus Herman, king of Poland