1098

Year 1098 (MXCVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1060s  1070s  1080s  – 1090s –  1100s  1110s  1120s
Years:	1095 1096 1097 – 1098 – 1099 1100 1101

Events

• December 12 – massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan where Crusaders resort to cannibalism.
• First Crusade: end of the siege of Antioch.
• Cîteaux Abbey founded.

Births

• September 16 – Hildegard of Bingen, German mystic writer, and composer (d. 1179)

Deaths

• January 3 – Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester
• August 1 – Adhemar of Le Puy, papal legate
• December 1 – Domnall Ua hÉnna, Pre-Reformation Bishop of Killaloe
• Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut
• Hugh of Montgomery, 2. Earl of Shrewsbury