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.

* 1086 – At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.

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 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.

1056 – d. 25 December 1086 ), daughter of Duke ( and since 1085 King ) Vratislaus II of Bohemia.

In 1086 the coronation of Vratislav II as King of Bohemia, and his alignment with László I, King of Hungary, threatened the position of the Polish ruler, Prince Władysław I Herman.

Although early records of Hampstead can be found in a grant by King Ethelred the Unready to the monastery of St. Peter ’ s at Westminster ( AD 986 ) and it is referred to in the Domesday Book ( 1086 ), the history of Hampstead is generally traced back to the 17th century.

Kennington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Chenintune, later Kyning-ton, which may mean " place of the King ", or " town of the King ".

The travertine church was built specifically to house the earthly remains of King Canute, who was murdered in the church of St. Alban's Priory in 1086.

Beeston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it shown as having a mill: " Bistone: Roland, Norman and Pirot from Eudo FitzHubert ; William Speke ; Thurstan the Chamberlain ; Godmund ; Alwin from the King.

He was soon installed in a new Norman castle at Bramber, to guard the strategically important harbour at Steyning and so began a vigorous boundary dispute and power tussle with the monks from Fécamp Abbey, in Normandy to whom King William I had granted Steyning, brought to a head by the Domesday Book, completed in 1086.

An entry in the Great Domesday Book of 1086 lists Evesham, mentioning " Two free men ; Two radmen ; Abbey of St Mary of Evesham ; Abbey of St Mary of Pershore ; Edmund, Abbot of St Mary of Pershore ; Walter, Abbot of St Mary of Evesham ; Aethelwig, Abbot of St Mary of Evesham ; King William as donor ; Odo, Bishop of Bayeux ; Ranulph ; Turstin, Abbot of St Mary of Pershore ; Walter Ponther ; Westminster, Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of St Peter.

King Alfred the Great was born at the royal palace there in the 9th century Wantage appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Canute IV, later known as Canute the Holy or Canute the Saint (), ( – 10 July 1086 ) was King of Denmark from 1080 until 1086.

Soon after 1086 and before 1108 the King gave Kington to Henry Port, who founded a new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches.

Some time after 1086, probably in the reign of King Henry I, the royal household moved upstream to the recently-built castle.

Horncastle is mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086, when it was listed as consisting of 41 households, including twenty-nine villagers and twelve smallholders, and had 100 acres of meadow and two mills, all belonging to King William.

At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086 the tenant-in-chief of the manor was Archbishop Lanfranc, a stern and very capable man, rivalling the King himself in statesmanship, who had been appointed to the see of Canterbury in 1070 after the Conquest.

At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Princes Risborough was a royal manor held by the King, having been a village of King Harold before the conquest.

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 king granted to this son of his the feudal barony of Bradninch, Devon, which had escheated to the crown from William Capra, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding that barony.

In 1086 William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey listing all the landholders in England along with their holdings.

All the English counties south of the River Tees and River Ribble are included, and the whole work seems to have been mostly completed by 1 August 1086, when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that William received the results and that all the chief magnates swore the Salisbury Oath, a renewal of their oaths of allegiance.

William left England towards the end of 1086.

* 1086: compilation of the Domesday Book by order of William I of England ; it was similar to a modern day government census, as it was used by William to thoroughly document all the landholdings within the kingdom that could be properly taxed.

* 1086 – The Domesday Book is initiated by William I of England.

* In England, The Domesday Book by William the Conqueror ( 1086 )

Guildford appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Geldeford and Gildeford, a holding of William the Conqueror.

Wallington appears in Domesday Book of 1086 and was held by William the Conqueror.

Historically the name Glossop refers to the small hamlet that gave its name to an ancient parish recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and then the manor given by William I of England to William Peverel.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Kilpeck ( entered as Chipeete ) was given by William the Conqueror to William Fitz Norman de la Mare, son of Norman de la Mare.

The Domesday book was compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086.

By the time of the Domesday Survey, in 1086, some twenty years after the invasion, Tong Manor was held by Ilbert de Lacy, an ally of William The Conqueror, who is recorded in the survey as holding 162 manors.

The Domesday Book, of 1086, records Ilkley ( Ilecliue / Illecliue / Illiclei / Illicleia ) as being in the possession of William de Percy 1st Baron Percy.

Knutsford was recorded in the William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086 as Cunetesford (" Canute's ford ").

It was held in 1086 by Turstin FitzRolf, standard bearer to William the Conqueror at Hastings.

* William VI ( 1058 – 1086 ) ( 4th son of William III )

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.

He called up a fleet of 1, 000 Danish ships, 60 Norwegian long boats, with plans to meet with another 600 ships under Duke Robert of Flanders in the summer of 1086.

By 1086, in the Domesday Book, it was called " Salesberie ".

Enfield was recorded in Domesday Book in 1086 as Enefelde, and as Einefeld in 1214, Enfeld in 1293, and Enfild in 1564: that is ' open land of a man called Ēana ', or ' where lambs are reared ', from the Old English feld with an Old English personal name or with Old English ēan ' lamb '.

On folio 301v of the Domesday Book of 1086 Oakworth is called " Acurde ".

In the Domesday Book of 1086 the town was called Celmeresfort and by 1189 it had changed to Chelmsford.

The first reference to Barnsley occurs in 1086 in the Domesday Book, in which it is called ' Berneslai ' and has a population of around 200.

It was known as Danengeberiam in the Domesday Book of 1086, a name meaning " stronghold of the family or followers of a man called Dene ".

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 where in Old English it was called Estone, which means " eastern estate ".

The villages were first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, when they were jointly called Hamdena after the owners of the local manor.

By the time Domesday Book was written in 1086, York Castle was also surrounded by a water-filled moat and a large artificial lake called the King's Pool, fed from the river Foss by a dam built for the purpose.

Cannock was called Chenet in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Hughenden parish was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and was called Huchedene, or Hugh's Valley in modern English.

It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hedreham, but by 1142 had taken on its more modern form and was called Hedenham.

In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was called Ambretone ; in manorial records of 1227 it was Emberdestone.

The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as the property of the Grenville family ; it was called Assedune.

In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was called Herulfmede.

In the Domesday Book of 1086 the whole area was recorded as Evreham or homestead by the brow of a hill and it was in the possession of a man called Robert Doiley.

Frisby Mill was situated on the River Wreake ( so called by the same Danes who named the village because the river meandered greatly ) and was operating at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086.

The inhabitants of Elmet are believed to have called themselves the Loides, a name which is still reflected in placenames: notably Ledston, Ledsham, Leathley and the modern city of Leeds (" Ledes " in 1086 Domesday Book ).

William IX (; ) ( 22 October 1071 – 10 February 1126 ), called the Troubador, was the Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou ( as William VII ) between 1086 and his death.

A Jewish community is thought to have been established in Norwich by 1135, although a man called ' Isaac ' is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.

In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is called variously " Wintrintune ", once ; " Wintrintone ", four times ; " Wintritone ", twice and " Wintretune ", once.

The monks produced forged documents to defend their position and were unhappy with the failure of their claim on Hastings In 1086 the King called his sons, barons and bishops to court ( the last time an English king presided personally, with his full court, to decide a matter of law ) to settle this.