1071

Events in 1071 2

• 1071 Battle of Manzikert -- Anatolia lost At Manzikert (1071), the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan defeats and captures Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes. The battle opens Anatolia -- the heartland of Byzantine military recruitment and agricultural wealth -- to Seljuk settlement. Within a decade most of Asia Minor is lost. The defeat triggers the political crisis that eventually leads Alexios I Komnenos to request Crusader assistance from the Pope.
• 1071 – 1126 Guillaume de Poitiers First known troubadour Guillaume de Poitiers, Duke of Aquitaine, is considered the first known troubadour. His surviving poems established the themes and conventions of courtly love poetry.