# 1103

Year 1103 (MCIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

## Events
### By place
#### Levant

* Spring – Bohemond I, Norman prince of Antioch, is released from Seljuk imprisonment at Niksar, after a ransom is paid of 100,000 gold pieces. During his absence, Tancred (Bohemond's nephew) attacks the Byzantines, and re-captures the cities of Tarsus, Adana and Mamistra in Cilicia. Tancred is deprived of his lordship by Bohemond's return, and is rewarded with a small fief within the Principality of Antioch.
* The Crusaders under Raymond IV invade the Beqaa Valley and capture Tortosa to isolate Tripoli. Raymond expands towards the Orontes River, and begins to build a castle on the Mons Peregrinus which helps in the Siege of Tripoli (see 1102). Emperor Alexios I supports the Crusaders by sending a Byzantine fleet (ten ships) to blockade the port of Tripoli.
* Summer – The Crusaders led by Bohemond I and Joscelin of Courtenay raid the territory of Aleppo to gain supplies. They capture the town of Muslimiyah, and extract a large tribute. Sultan Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan, the Seljuk ruler of Aleppo, agrees to pay 7,000 gold pieces and ten horses to the Crusaders while Bohemond agrees to release all Seljuk prisoners captured at Muslimiyah.

#### Europe

* August 24 – King Magnus III is killed in battle with the Ulaid in Ulster. Sigurd Jorsalfare, Øystein Magnusson and Olaf Magnusson succeed him as joint kings of Norway.

#### Britain

* April 27 – Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, again goes into exile after a dispute with King Henry I over the appointment of bishops and abbots to important Church positions.
* August 5 – Matilda of Scotland, queen of England as wife of Henry I, gives birth to their first son William Adelin at Winchester. They already have a daughter, Princess Matilda.

#### China

* Li Jie, Chinese government minister, publishes his Yingzao Fashi technical treatise on Chinese architecture, during the reign of Emperor Hui Zong of the Song Dynasty.

### By topic
#### Religion

* The Scandinavian city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania becomes a see of the Catholic Church, namely the Archdiocese of Lund (approximate date).

## Births

* February 24 – Toba, emperor of Japan (d. 1156)
* March 24 – Yue Fei, Chinese general and poet (d. 1142)
* August 5 – William Adelin, duke of Normandy (d. 1120)
* Adeliza of Louvain, queen of England (d. 1151)
* Aénor de Châtellerault, duchess of Aquitaine (d. 1130)
* Alfonso I, count of Tripoli and Toulouse (d. 1148)
* Heilika of Lengenfeld, German countess (d. 1170)
* Henry II, margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (d. 1123)
* Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, Norwegian earl (d. 1158)
* Vsevolod of Pskov, Kievan prince (approximate date)
* Wivina, French Benedictine abbess (d. 1168)

## Deaths

* January 17 – Frutolf of Michelsberg, German monk
* March 18 – Sybilla of Conversano, Norman duchess
* July 10 – Eric I, king of Denmark
* August 24 – Magnus III, king of Norway (b. 1073)
* October 19 – Humbert II, count of Savoy (b. 1065)
* Al-Hakim al-Munajjim, Persian Nizari missionary
* Boedil Thurgotsdatter, Danish queen
* Ebles II, French nobleman (House of Montdidier)
* Henry I, German nobleman (House of Wettin)
* Isaac Alfasi, Algerian Talmudist and posek (b. 1013)
* Manegold of Lautenbach, German priest (b. 1030)
* Osbern FitzOsbern, bishop of Exeter (b. 1032)
* Sibylla of Burgundy, duchess of Burgundy (b. 1065)
* William Firmatus, Norman hermit and pilgrim (b. 1026)