In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by the taifa Muslim princes of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ) to defend their territories from Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile.

Cheddar was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ceder, meaning " Shear Water ", from the Old English scear and Celtic dwr.

The Domesday Book was undertaken in 1086 by William I of England so that he could properly tax the land he had recently conquered in medieval Europe.

The Domesday Book of 1086 in England contained listings of households but its coverage was not complete and its intent was not the same as modern censuses.

After the Christian defeat at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, El Cid was recalled to service by Alfonso VI, and commanded a combined Christian and Moorish army, which he used to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.

Emsworth was not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

The period from 1086 to 1156 was the age of supremacy of the In no chō and of the rise of the military class throughout the country.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

Its existence was first recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book.

Rosemary and Darroll Pardoe, authors of The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan, theorize that if a female pope did exist, a more plausible time frame is 1086 and 1108, when there were several Antipopes ; during this time the reign of the legitimate Popes Victor III, Urban II, and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and later sacked by the Normans.

Before the Norman invasion in 1066, the parish of Higher Mutley was owned by a man Alwin of Tamerton, and Lower Mutley by another man called Goodwin, but at the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) both were owned by Odo, whose feudal overlord was Juhel of Totnes.

Blessed Pope Victor III ( c. 1026 – 16 September 1087 ), born Daufer ( Dauphar ), Latinised Dauferius, was Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII from 24 May 1086, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.

The assembly now lost all patience ; Desiderius was seized and dragged to the Church of St. Lucy, where he was forcibly vested in the red cope and given the name of Victor on 24 May 1086.

Under pressure from Prince Jordan I of Capua, to whom he had also rendered important service, he was elected on 24 May 1086, taking the throne name of Victor III, but his consecration did not take place until 9 May 1087 owing to the presence of the Antipope Clement III in Rome.

Their armies entered the Iberian peninsula on several occasions ( 1086, 1088, 1093 ) and defeated King Alfonso at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, but initially their purpose was to unite all the Taifas into a single Almoravid Caliphate.

In Domesday ( 1086 ) the city of York was divided into shires.

In the extreme south of the Lizard was the royal manor of Winnianton which was held by King William I at the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) and was also the head manor of the hundred of Kerrier.

A cognate name also existed in Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), in the name of the village Woolland in Dorset, England: this was written " Winlande " in the 1086 Domesday Book, and it is interpreted as ' meadow land ' or ' pasture land '.

For over 500 years the land, part of the ancient manor of Kensington, was under the lordship of the Vere family, the Earls of Oxford and descendants of Aubrey de Vere I, who held the manor of Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances, in Domesday Book in 1086.

He was a married bishop, and his sons held land in Norfolk at the time of Domesday Book in 1086.

By the time the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, William the Conqueror had invested his own bishop ( Lansfranc ) with the Archbishopric of Canterbury and restored the lands of Harrow, appropriated by King Edward, to the Church.

For over 500 years the land, part of the ancient manor of Kensington, was under the lordship of the Vere family, Earls of Oxford and descendants of Aubrey de Vere I, who held the manor of Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances, in the Domesday Book in 1086.

The two mills held by the bishop in 1086 were probably those at Engleton and Somerford, and these were certainly the most important and contested mills in the parish for many centuries, although there were a number of others on minor streams.

Saint Anselm of Lucca ( 1036 – March 18, 1086 ), called the Younger or Anselm II to distinguish him from his uncle, was an Italian bishop, a prominent figure in the Investiture Controversy and in the fighting in Central Italy between the forces of Countess Matilda of Tuscany, the papal champion, and those of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

From this we get c. 730 Hrofæscæstre, 811 Hrofescester, 1086 Rovescester, 1610 Rochester.

By the time of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Carlisle was part of Scotland and did not feature in the Domesday Book of 1086.

There was no village at Stamford Bridge in 1066 and not even in 1086 when the Domesday Book was compiled.

The Exeter Domesday Book records that, at the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, the site was held ( probably by lease from the Abbey ) by one Uluert, and by Roger de Corcella at the time of the survey in 1086.

There were about 28, 000 of them listed in Domesday Book in 1086, less than had been enumerated for 1066.

After Leofric's death in 1057, his widow lived on until sometime between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and 1086.

Thus, Godiva apparently died between 1066 and 1086.

Evidence that Worksop existed before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 is provided by the Domesday Book of 1086:

In 1066 Leofric of Bottesford was Lord of the Manor, this transferred in 1086 to Robert of Tosny, who also became Tenant-in-chief.

In 1066 Godwin of Barrowby was Lord of the Manor, this transferred in 1086 to Robert Malet, who also became Tenant-in-chief.

The Domesday Book of 1086 states that, prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria had an aula ( hall ) in the manor of Hallam.

Though assessed at only one sulung, it had a slightly higher value than might be expected, at £ 7, both in 1066 and in 1086.

The value was stated to be £ 16 in 1086 and also in the time of Edward the Confessor but only £ 5 immediately after the conquest in 1066.

Bradninch was the caput of a feudal barony granted by William the Conqueror ( 1066 – 1087 ) to William Capra, who is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding this manor.

In 1086 Aust was recorded as " Austreclive " and was held from the Bishop of Worcester as part of the extensive feudal barony of Turstin FitzRolf who had acted as standard-bearer to William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

The Saxon lord Wulwin / Ulwin was lord in 1066 ; by 1086 the estate was in possession of Aubrey de Vere I and remained part of the barony of his descendants the Earls of Oxford until the 16th century.

It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as " Merceode ", when the manor was held by Alwin, whose father Wulfgeat held the manor before 1066.

Its Domesday Assets were: 1 plough, meadow for 1 plough ; a separate manor in 1066, it was part of the manor of Kempton in 1086.

Variations include the models 1046, 1026, 1066, 1076 ( FBI model ) and 1086.

By 1066 the town was a Royal Manor held by King Edward the Confessor and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as land held by William the Conqueror.

The combined total of free tenants, unfree tenants, and slaves was 27 in 1066 and probably 32 in 1086.

In 1066 Earl Morcar was Lord of the Manor, which was transferred to Jocelyn son of Lambert in 1086, with Tenant-in-chief as Alfred of Lincoln.

In 1066 lordship of the manor of the manor of Sleaford was held by Barthi of Sleaford, being transferred to the Bishop of Lincoln, St Mary ’ s in 1086.

Clayton was established prior to the Norman conquest in 1066 as it is listed in the Domesday Book in 1086 as the Manor Claitone when William the Conqueror granted it to Ilbert de Lacy.