1074

This page relates to the year 1074 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the caliph Fatimide of Egypt Al-Mustansir Billah names vizier the Armenian general Badr Al-Djamali, ordering troops of Syria, and full powers gives him to restore the order and to cleanse finances in Egypt. Its strict interior policy makes it possible to consolidate the mode fatimide. It subjects the seditious mercenaries, as well Sudanese as Turkish. A good part of the military chiefs is carried out during a banquet and more than fifty thousand troublemakers are sold like slaves. As from this time, the viziers ensure the majority of the functions of authority and government.

large Turkish Hâkan , the sultan Malik Shah Ier, who succeeded in 1072 his father Alp Arslan, gives by Firman, three years hardly after the Bataille of Manzikert, the Anatolia with his/her paternal uncle Süleyman Shah, provided that this one is its vassal.

March 14th: Beginning of the reign of Géza Ier (1044 - 1077), king of Hungary (fine in 1077).

Géza, wire of Béla Ier overcomes Solomon Ier of Hungary which flees in Istrie where it finishes his life like hermit. Géza reigns protected by the Basileus Michel VII Doukas of which it receives a crown which associated with that sent by the pope to holy Etienne will form the holy crown of Hungary.

August: Treaty of alliance between Robert Guiscard and Byzance. Following an exchange of embassies between the pope and Michel VII Doukas, Gregoire VII sends to certain “faithful” of holy Pierre a call to go to the help Byzantine empire vis-a-vis to the Moslems. Robert Guiscard softened his position and agrees to marry one of his daughters to the young person wire of Michel VII and promises to defend the imperial territory against his enemies. The Normands are used as mercenaries by the Byzantine , in particular in Arménie against the Saljûqides, since the middle of the century.

Gregoire VII projects in fact a forwarding with the help of the Christians of the East of which it would take itself the head, entrusting the defense of the interests of the Church to the emperor. The quarrel with the empire puts an end to the project and brings the inversion of the pontifical policy in favor of the Normands whose pope approves the intervention in Greece (1081).

Gregorian Reform: Decrees of the pope Gregoire VII (1074 - 1075) which proclaims the primacy of Rome on the Church, prohibit the marriage of the priests, the Simonie and the nominations laic (1075). They will start the Querelle of the Nominations (1076 - 1122). Legates sent in all the countries of Occident have mission of depositing the deposed guilty clerks. The sovereigns and the laic nobility of Germany, of France, England and Italy of North support their clergy.

Etienne de Thiers founds the monastery of Grandmont around whose an order develops.
Decrees against the simoniaques and the Nicolaïte S.
Peace of Gerstungen with the Saxon (or 1075).

the Byzantine minister Niképhoritzès establishes a monopoly of the grains and confiscates the particular ports of Thrace, attic with corn of Constantinople. In front of the coalition of powerful and foreigners (Venetian), the monopoly is removed in 1078.

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