1050 - 1079 A.D. - More stuff

by Deborah Marino Aug 23, 2022

1050

The Berber peoples of northwest Africa

The Berber peoples that have been indigenous to northwest Africa since 2000 B.C. are still living in that area but are broken up into tribes and no longer have great kingdoms like they once did during the Roman era

There is division among them and this is when Ibn Yasin arrives on the scene (around this year); He lives in the ribat of Waggag ibn Zelu (ribat is Arabic for “fortification”) where he meets a chieftain named Yahya ibn Ibrahim, “who was in the search of a Malliki teacher for his people, believing that orthodox customs were being forgotten"

With ibn Ibrahim, ibn Yasin was radicalized, and began to win over people to his faith, calling for the abolishment of the current ruling government

At the time, the Maghreb and Al-Andalus area was split between multiple kingdoms, in control of three main factions, the Zenata in control of the north, the Masmuda holding central Morocco, and the Sanhaja, concentrated in two main areas: the Western Sahara and the Eastern Hills of the Maghreb

Ibn Yasin sought to consolidate the Berber Muslims under one banner, his own, and to this end went to the nearby Lamtuna people; there he found a large base of support, raising a large number of people behind him, adherent to his views of the Quran and how it should be interpreted and enforced

By reciting stories of the early life of the prophet Muhammad, Ibn Yasin preached that war and conquest were required for strict adherence to Islam; he further said that it was not enough to simply adhere to God’s law, but also necessary to eradicate opposition to it;

Under Ibn Yasin’s ideology, anyone and anything outside Islamic law could be taken as “the enemy;” he specifically identified the Berber practice of tribalism as a major hindrance to the formation of a cohesive empire; he believed that it was absolutely necessary to unite the Muslim tribes, if they were to be forged into a powerful whole” (thinkafrica.net)

1051

1052

1053

Ibn Yasin’s first campaign takes place (thinkafrica.net) and now it “was the Arabs, who enlisted Berber warriors for the conquest of Spain, who nevertheless gave those peoples a single name, turning barbarian (speakers of a language other than Greek and Latin) into Barbar, the name of a race descended from Noah

While unifying the indigenous groups under one rubric, the Arabs began their Islamisation [of North Africa]

From the very beginning, Islam provided the ideological stimulus for the rise of fresh Berber dynasties. Between the 11^th and 13^th centuries, the greatest of those—the Almoravids and the Almohads, nomads of the Sahara and villagers of the High Atlas, respectively—conquered Muslim Spain and North Africa as far east as Tripoli (now in Libya)” (Encyclopedia Britannica)

1054

1055

RULERS & ROYALTY: Gruffydd ap Llywelyn becomes sovereign of all Wales

1056

1057

RULERS & ROYALTY:

1058

RULERS & ROYALTY:

William VII the Brave, Duke of Aquitaine, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Guy Geoffrey, who took the title William VIII (d. 1086)

1059

The pope decrees that lay investiture was unlawful in the eyes of the church (No one, including kings can appoint clergy, only the pope/Rome) (British Kings and Queens, pg. 67)

1060

RULERS & ROYALTY: Philip I (House of Carpet) becomes king of France

Edward the Confessor begins building Westminster Abbey and Westminster Palace (1,028 years after the resurrection)

1061

Hohenzollern House in Germany is mentioned, “Wezil et Burchardus de Zolorin” (today there is a castle built in the 19^th century) (see next: 1267)

1062

1063

1064

1065

Westminster Abbey is completed by Edward the Confessor

1066

William the Conqueror Invades England

September 28 William the Conqueror begins his conquest

October 14, William the Conqueror defeats Harold at the Battle of Hastings on then turns to Dover, he takes the town, burns it, and builds fortifications there

William the Conqueror then heads to London for his coronation, which takes place on Christmas day in Westminster Abbey (the House of Normandy 1066—1154),

The same year William the Conqueror builds castles at Pevensey, Hastings, Dover, Canterbury, Wallingford, Berkhamsted and London,

Pevensey Castle was built as soon as William landed in England for his conquest; it was built within the west gate of a Roman fort called Anderida (later in history it was used to house military billets and machine gun posts during WWII),

At the time William built the castle, there was an Anglo Saxon burgh there, or fortified town, on top of the Roman fort (Castles, Palaces, and Historic Homes, pg. 22)

Edward the Confessor dies (buried in Westminster Abbey)