1099 deaths

11th century pope and initiator of the Crusades

11th century Castilian nobleman and military leader

King of Scots (1033-1099)

French monk

Norman nobleman and member of the English clergy

sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire

Viscountess of Carcassonne

Japanese noble

French abbot and saint

wife of Malik-Shah I, mother of Berkyaruq

bishop of Utrecht

Rhygyfarch or Rhigyfarch (in contemporary late Old Welsh orthography Ricemarch, 1057–1099), eldest son of Sulien, whom he may have succeeded in 1091 as Bishop of St David's, was the author of the earliest surviving and standard Life of Saint David. The original text was written in Latin but was translated into Welsh later in the Middle Ages as Buchedd Dewi. The translation did much to enhance the cult status of Saint David in Wales and was in itself an important landmark in Medieval Welsh literature. He also wrote Latin poems, including one dealing with the different versions of the Psalter, a

Qadi of Tripoli (r. 1072–1099)

stripped of the County of Eu in 1050 but it is unclear when he relinquished the countship of Soissons