people/1040s

Count of Tusculum

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1025 to 1043

German aristocrat (c. 995 – 1047)

King of Goryeo in 1083

King of Deheubarth

11th-century Norman mercenary in Italy

French Benedictine monk (1040–1124)

Chinese Song Dynasty artist and poet (1045–1105)

Bishop in the Kingdom of Hungary

Imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen (died 1040)

Count of Angoulême from 1032 to 1048

Buyid amir of Iraq from 1027 to 1044

Minamoto clan samurai (1045–1127)

Chan Buddhist monk from Quanzhou

Queen of León and Castile from 1079 to 1093

11th-century Bishop of Winchester

Belgium bishop and theologian (c. 985–1048)

King of Powys (died 1132)

11th-century abbot of the monastery of Dunkeld

Emperor of China from 1067 to 1085

11th-century French Benedictine historian

Head of the Catholic Church from 1046 to 1047

11th-century Bishop of Selsey

King of Hungary from 1041 to 1044

Bulgarian nobleman

Persian poet

King of Goryeo from 1083 to 1094

Chinese poet and writer (1049–c. 1100)

Western Chalukya Emperor from 1015 to 1043

Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1063 to 1096

Count of Luxembourg (as Henry II) from 1026 and duke of Bavaria from 1042 until his death

Margrave of Meissen and Lusatia

Georgian prince

Italian Catholic saint (died 1046)

Norman adventurer, founder of the fortunes of the Hauteville family

Steward of two Dukes of Normandy (died c. 1040)

Byzantine general (c. 998–1043)

Bishop of Crediton, Worcester and Cornwall (died 1046)

Shaddadid emir from 1034 to 1049

Doge of Venice from 1032 to 1043