* 1042: the Normans establish Melfi as the capital of southern Italy.

In 1042, the Normans elected William as count at Melfi and Drogo received Venosa from Guaimar in a twelve-part division of the conquered territory.

Canute was succeeded by his sons, but in 1042 the native dynasty was restored with the accession of Edward the Confessor.

1042 – 29 July 1099 ), born Otho de Lagery ( alternatively: Otto, Odo or Eudes ), was pope from 12 March 1088 until his death on 29 July 1099.

Emma went into exile in Flanders until Harthacnut became king following Harold's death in 1040, and his half-brother Edward followed Harthacnut to England ; Edward was proclaimed king after Harthacnut's death in June 1042.

Year 1042 ( MXLII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Edward the Confessor, (; ; 1003 – 05 to 4 or 5 January 1066 ), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Edward was sworn in as king alongside Harthacnut, but a diploma issued by Harthacnut in 1042 describes him as the king's brother.

This was commenced between 1042 and 1052 as a royal burial church, consecrated on 28 December 1065, completed after his death in about 1090, and demolished in 1245 to make way for Henry III's new building, which still stands.

Harthacnut (" Tough-knot "; ; c. 1018 – 8 June 1042 ) was King of Denmark from 1035 to 1042 and King of England from 1040 to 1042.

Harthacnut died suddenly in 1042, and was succeeded by Magnus in Denmark and Edward the Confessor in England.

Michael Evans points out that Harold was only one of several kings of pre-Conquest England to die following short reigns, and lives, including Edmund I ( reigned 939 – 946 ), Eadred ( reigned 946 – 955 ), Eadwig ( reigned 955 – 959 ), Edmund Ironside ( reigned 1016 ), and Harthacnut ( reigned 1040 – 1042 ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Bassus and Quintianus ( or, less frequently, year 1042 Ab urbe condita ).

In 1041, Bretislaus, defeated in his second attempted invasion by Emperor Henry III signed a treaty at Regensburg ( 1042 ) in which he renounced his claims to all Polish lands except for Silesia, which was to be incorporated into the Bohemian Kingdom.

Magnus I ( April / June 1024 – 25 October 1047 ), known as the Good or the Noble, was the King of Norway from 1035 to 1047 and the King of Denmark from 1042 to 1047.

In 1042, he was crowned king of Denmark.

Born into the Macedonian dynasty that had ruled the Byzantine Empire for almost two hundred years, she was co-empress with her sister Zoe for two months in 1042 and sole empress from 11 January 1055 to after 31 August 1056.

Michael V ( Greek: Μιχαήλ Ε ΄, Mikhaēl V ), ( 1015 – 24 August 1042 ), was Byzantine emperor for 4 months in 1041 – 1042, as the nephew and successor of Michael IV and the adoptive son of his wife, the Empress Zoe.

Sancho Ramírez ( c. 1042 – 4 June 1094 ) was King of Aragon ( 1063 – 1094, not formally until 1076 ) and King of Navarre ( from 1076, as Sancho V ).

Following Harald's death in 1040, Harthacanute succeeded him for a short time, but as neither Harald nor Harthacanute left offspring, the throne was offered to Edward on Harthacanute's death in 1042.

Raymond IV of Toulouse ( c. 1041 or 1042 – 1105 ), sometimes called Raymond of St Gilles, was Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Margrave of Provence and one of the leaders of the First Crusade.

He had been chosen by the Empress Zoe as a husband and co-emperor in 1042, although he had been exiled for conspiring against her previous husband, Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian.

In 1058, Harold also became Earl of Hereford, and replaced his late father as the focus of opposition to growing Norman influence in England under the restored monarchy ( 1042 – 66 ) of Edward the Confessor, who had spent over 25 years in exile in Normandy.

He was the son of Robert FitzWimarc, a Norman lord and favourite of Edward the Confessor ( r. 1042 – 1066 ).

In August 1042, under the influence of the Skleroi the emperor relieved General George Maniakes from his command in Italy, and Maniakes rebelled, declaring himself emperor in September.

Finally, in September 1042, the Emperor led his army to Hungary and occupied nine fortresses north of the Danube.

* April 1042 – September 1042 George Maniakes

In September 1042, the Normans elected their own leader, ignoring Arduin.

Waga was one of the witness's to Earl Leofric's, husband of Lady Godiva, foundation of the monastery at Coventry during the first year of the reign of Edward the Confessor ( 1042 / 3 ).

From about the date of 1042 onwards, however, the account is Lampert's own and he carries the history from there up to the year 1077, when the Swabian duke Rudolf of Rheinfelden was crowned anti-king by the dissident barons opposed to Henry IV.

" Waga, whose name is preserved in the nearby village of Wootton Wawen, was one of the witness's to Earl Leofric's, husband of Lady Godiva, foundation of the monastery at Coventry during the first year of the reign of Edward the Confessor ( 1042 / 3 ).

From 999 to 1042 the Normans in Italy, coming first as pilgrims, were mainly mercenaries serving at various times the Byzantines and a number of Lombard nobles.

ln 1042 the Normans made it the seat of one of their twelve counties, while the Monte Gargano remained Byzantine.

On 21 January 1042 Amadeus, Otto and Aymon confirmed another diploma of their father favouring the church of Saint-Chaffre.

Between 846-1022, and again from 1042 – 1166, kings from the leading Irish kingdoms made greater attempts to compel the rest of the island's polity to their rule, with varying degrees of success, until the inauguration of Ruaidri Ua Conchobair ( Rory O ' Connor ) in 1166,

In short time, the Hauteville created their own state: William of Hauteville became, in 1042, Count of Apulia.

The Unitarian Universalist Association has included the song in their supplemental hymnal Singing the Journey ( Hymn # 1042 ).

: b ) that Recommendation ITU ‑ R M. 1042 ‑ 3, on disaster communications in the amateur and amateur-satellite services, encourages the development of such services capable of providing radiocommunications in the event of natural disasters, and recommends that their networks be robust, flexible and independent of other telecommunication services and capable of operating from emergency power ;

Eustace I, count of Boulogne, He held the county from 1042 until his death in 1049.

Eustace succeeded his father as count of Boulogne in 1042.

* William III of Montferrat ( 970 – 1042 )

In 1042 Duke William granted Alderney to the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel.

In 1042 Duke William gave " Saint Mary of the Burnt Monastery " to the abbey of Cerisy.