1032

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring - Emperor Romanos III sends a Byzantine expeditionary army under General Michael Protospatharios, which includes Western auxiliaries and elite troops of Asia Minor, to reinforce the Byzantine position in Calabria.

  Europe

• September 6 - King Rudolph III dies without any heirs. He bequeaths his entire dominions to Emperor Conrad II, dispatching to him the Holy Lance and ring of St. Maurice, symbols of Burgundian investiture.
• Odo II, count of Champagne, invades Burgundy and seizes most of the kingdom for himself. With the assistance of Humbert I of Savoy, Queen-dowager Ermengarde flees to the safety of Zürich.
• Winter - Conrad II marches with his army into Champagne and devastes the land – forcing Odo II to sue for peace and swear to abandon Burgundy. The bishops prevent Conrad from seizing control of Burgundy.
• The first mention is made of Kursk, Russia, in the hagiography of Theodosius, who becomes a monk at the Kiev Caves Monastery.

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Religion

• October - Pope John XIX dies after an 8-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by his nephew Benedict IX as the 145th pope of the Catholic Church, while still in his teens.