1020s births

William the Conqueror, sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy from 1035 onward. By 1060, following a long struggle, his hold on Normandy was secure. In 1066, following the death of Edward the Confessor, William invaded England, leading a Franco-Norman army to victory over the Anglo-Saxon forces of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings. He suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest. The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands, and by difficulties with his eldest son, Robert Curthose.

pope

head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1086 to 1087

11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher

King of Norway and Denmark

antipope 1080 to 1100

Holy Roman Empress

Queen of Hungary from 1046 to 1060

Anglo-Saxon Earl

Byzantine judge and historian (11th century)

Norwegian royal consort

Song Dynasty painter (1020–1090)

Duke of Swabia from 1057 to 1079

Frankish Queen consort

Duke of Aquitaine

11th-century Queen of England

Duke of Saxony

11th century Queen of Germany

11th-century Count of Savoy

count of Barcelona (1023-1076)

Norman historian

consort margravine of Tuscany

French priest and saint

Norman earl (c. 1020–1071)

Norwegian martyr, saint patron of Oslo

duke of Bavaria from 1049 to 1053

11th-century Bavarian nobleman

(1030-1102)

Mongol khagan in 11th century

Polish princess and astrologer (1025–1108)

Count of Louvain from 1054

noblewoman

Queen consort of England

11th-century German chronicler

Portuguese noble

Count of Valois

French noble

Anglo-Saxon Earl

Italian saint

Spanish noble

Duke of Gascony

Moorish scholar

Norman noble

Count of Scheyern

Peerage person ID=104790

German cleric and Bishop of Halberstadt (c.1028–1088)

Amid al-Mulk Abu Nasr al-Kunduri (; 1024 – 29 November 1064), commonly known as al-Kunduri (; also spelled Kunduri), was a Persian bureaucrat, who served as the vizier of the first Seljuk Sultan Tughril () and his nephew Alp Arslan ().

Margrave of the Nordmark

german saint

count of Albon

Viscount of Thouars

soldier, monk and Byzantine writer

Anglo-Norman noble

King of Powys

fl. 1050

Bishop of Hildesheim

Countess of Werl by marriage and later Countess of Northeim and Duchess of Bavaria

Italian regent

Benedictine abbot

catholic prelate